Hi LF and RJ! Haven't been over here for a bit, but let me say: Well done, indeed! Not only did you manage to carry out the butchering, you have presented the emotional and moral issues very well. I particularly liked this passage: "...definitely more committed to our livestock, and strangely, so much more intimately connected to life and this earth... much more deeply than our city counterparts- who recoil in horror, and to whom we have difficulty explaining." The distancing of people from their food sources and the amount of denial that goes on among many people who get all their food from the supermarket is appalling. So much of today's supermarket food is overpackaged, overprocessed and downright disguised, to the point where it is impossible to see what the raw ingredients are. It allows people to conveniently "forget" that all food comes from animals or plants and to raise their children in profound ignorance of what food really is. I guess turning a blind eye is the only way that they can handle contributing to the horrors of factory farming. Sorry, I didn't mean this to turn into a rant. I mainly wanted to say that you did really, really well!

We did it! Interesting tidbit. I was on a live streaming video chat last night and someone said don't forget to rabbit rabbit! I of course was surprised that someone brought it up. I said we always try to remember. That started a discussion about what it is and what it means. So a lot more people now know about it. 😁

I think it worked better than usual so far this month. I got us all back here safe and sound with the trailer intact! yay! We are so proud of BIL . He is improving daily and goes up/down the stairs with such strength now. He’s playing the piano and went to the grocery with us and had no problem keeping up. All in all Rabbit Rabbit has worked well… so far! Bragu i am so sorry. I hope you find a car soon. A pox on the other driver !

"And I've finally decided that arcy's religious posts are Spam." Maire, it's funny. I'm dear friends with a very Christian woman who is like a mother to me. I've always found her behavior, her open-heartedness and kindness more attractive and better exemplars of what it really means to be Christian than any of the lectures, remarks, comments, asides, preachings or self-righteous haughtiness that is so common among people who feel they need to *prove* how christian they are by passing judgments on others.