Thursday, December 4, 2008

Thanksgiving at the cabin

We spent thanksgiving at the cabin in wyoming with friends Todd and Michelle.


We were excited to try out Jenny's new stove. It was a huge upgrade from the cute antique stove with a 14" wide oven. The new stove had plenty of room for our turkey day feast.


Amanda said it was her favorite turkey ever. It was roasted with a pancetta sage butter rub.

Kaia getting ready for a chilly hike.


The following are pictures of the buffalo hides and heads that Mike & Jenny brought up on sat. They organized a grass fed, hormone free, buffalo purchase from a local ranch.
They did this two years ago and we got 1/8 of a buffalo, it was delicious. We stepped up to 1/4 this year and enough other folks were interested they were able to get three.
Last time they had the skull bleached and the hide tanned, but it was quite expensive. This time they are trying to do some it themselves. They are salting and scraping the fat off the hide before taking it to a local tanner.
They placed the heads in the aspen grove about 50 yards from the cabin to see if the local critters will clean them up. Amanda didn't like that the heads were still bleeding, but Haus and Otis were very interested.

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