Falling Leaves

When I was down feeding the hogs, I noticed that most of the leaves are now down and the trees look bare once again. Winter is coming we know and I resist it as always even though I did build a fire in the wood stove this afternoon to know the chill out of the house.

Fall on High Mountain

As the leaves begin to fall from the trees here on High Mountain, the winds of change continue to blow presenting us with a need to hurry with our winter preparations. The hogs are grown now and will bring good meat to the table next year. My husband cures our meat in our meathouse. He built this building and has it enclosed with wire mesh to keep the mice (most of them) off the meat while it cures. He sugar cures the meat using brown sugar with red and black pepper.

We plan to kill the hogs around Thanksgiving this year if the weather stays cold enough. The meat has to cure for several months in the meathouse before we put it up.