I mentioned to a neighbor that I wanted a feral pig to butcher. The pigs are a great nuisance around here, spoiling crops, and destroying pastures. Rancher’s best efforts to get rid of the prolific pigs by hunting and trapping can’t seem to bring them under control. - - hunters are welcome.
On the other hand, if properly butchered and prepared, feral pigs are every bit as good as farm-raised pork and so, with visions of ribs and smoked hams, I was anxious to ‘try my hand’ at the butcher’s trade. The other side of that story, is the slightest puncture of internal pig organs during butchering releases foul-smelling liquids that spoil the meat.
The following day the neighbor called to tell me her cousin had killed a 60-pound sow, and I was welcome to it if I wanted it. I got the pig, brought it home, and bright and early the next morning broke-out my knives, cleaver and bone saw and went to work.
After five or six hours of hard work I had learned how NOT to butcher a pig, and attracted a gallery of onlookers - - several black vultures, which can catch the scent of carrion at 50 miles, and even farther than that, if an internal organ is butchered during butchering, (or anywhere in the country if there is the slightest chance of political scandal). The word of my butchering skill traveled quickly in the Vulture community.
And so, it was a great day for learning - -
I learned that if you want to butcher, make sure you keep all the smelly parts separated from the meat.
2. The Vultures learned that if you are patient, and hang around people who don’t know what they are doing, there is probably a free meal in it for you at the end of the day.
3. And YOU my beloved correspondents, have learned how to attract a couple hundred Democrats if you ever find a use for them - - All you have to do is throw a dead pig in your pasture, and the stink will bring them running - -
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I am in the middle of reading "Atlas Shrugged", and the connection just came to me-- -
Don't see how this relates to attracting Democrats....