Hi All
Sorry, I’ve been out of pocket lately. What can I say, life’s a bitch. Let me explain, Tuesday Feb, 29 after spending the day working in my yard preparing to show our home to perspective buyers I received a call form my oldest son, breaking the news to me that he just lost his job. He was devastated to say the least. I won’t go into the details however I reminded him that he was a licensed professional and people are looking for someone like him all the time. After talking to him for awhile and finely getting him to understand that this job wasn’t the last good job around and God had a plan for him, there was another ring on the line. I said my good buys to Josh and answered the other call to hear
“Mrs. K. has anyone called you about your son Calum?” {Youngest son} By the sound of this ladies voice I know it was going to be bad. She proceed to tell me that my son was in a pole vaulting accident and has broken his ankle and is waiting for my permission to give treatment at a local hospital. Let me make this store as short as possible because I really don’t want to relive these last 9 day again in writing. Calum has a badly broken left leg {both bones} witch required emergency surgery. He has an eight inch metal plate and 10 screws that will permanently stay in his leg. We call him the bionic boy. It’s been a rough 9 days, but he is a champ and is doing very good for all that he has been through. On the other note Josh was accepted for a job position the day after losing his old job. Not bad for a young 22 year old. My middle son, Aaron has been a very supportive bother. The only trouble is I won’t let him leave the house out of fear that something might happen to him.

Today, we went to get the stitches out of Calums leg and put the hard cast on. It wasn’t as easy and pain free as we were told it would be. Let me just once again say that Calum is much stronger than I. I sat at his side with big tears running down my face and I thought I might pass out form holding my breath while the nurse stretched his Achilles to prepare for the cast. I’m not sure how meny staples there where but the Doctor thought about 35.

OUCH OUCH!!!!
I have a lot of gruesome pictures of Calums journey; however I will spare you the gore.

Good friends Debbie and Mark

Calum and Grandpa Mario
Calum and Grandma
Learning how to use the crutches


Friends

Cute friends
This is what you would call a good friend, when they come to the hospital to watch the
Super Bowl with you.
Big brother watching over little brother
Calum with Coach Cash

I would like to thank all of the wonderful people that came to the hospital to show their love and concern for Calum and his recovery. Also thank you to the friends and family that have continued to cheer Calum on.
I personally want to thank my two best friends Tamaria {Mom} and Kim for being there for me.

SAUSAGE MAKING IN THE KLESEL HOUSE

Okay People this post might be a little unsettling for some however it is a special request from my dear hubby that I share with the world the ins and outs of making fresh pork and deer smoke sausage. I must say it is very tasty but what a person must go though to achieve the end results are pretty detailed. I say it took 4 days from start to finish to get the sausage in the freezer, on the other hand my husband would say its more of a journey from a life long learned technique.

Bla bla bla

Some of these pictures might be disturbing so please us caution.

To start with you must go out into the wild, where it’s to cold for any normal person to endure and set up camp a few yards away from where you have been putting out feed for months to stick your animal. I say STICK because I once made the mistake of saying CATCH when asking “What did you catch honey”

my man corrected me by saying

“I don’t wrestle the animal to the death, sweetie I stick them with my arrow”

I reply with
“OH”

After the kill, he field dresses it and brings it home to prepare the meat for processing

IN MY KITCHEN!!!

This had to be done after the normal work day so, this is why it took us 4 days. Donnie doesn’t use any filler or preservatives, its all natural and smoked in our back yard and packaged in the garage.

1.Stick your animal
2.Dress the meat
3.Grind the meat
4.Season the meat
5.STUFF IT IN HOG GUT CASING
6.Hang in the smoker
7.Smoke for about 6 hours
8.Package sausage

ENJOY!!

two of these beautys {WILD HOG} and one {Deer}

Calum and Donnie stuffing the casing

Aaron and Donnie still stuffing


Can you tell my teenage sons are really enjoying themselves? he he he

My job is to tie all the ends



I think we'll be good on sausage for maybe six months

I cant wait for fishing season

I hope you learned a little about sausage making or at least have a greater understanding of why I am the way I am
heheheheh

Here's a peek at my Friday Finds

I'm sorry I must make this a short post tonight I'm totally exhausted and we are having Christmas at Donnie's Moms tomorrow. I need some sleep.

Good nigh and Sleep tight
Love Julia

I'm so scared

Good evening everyone.

I am posting again today because I was watching a very very very scary movie

with my 16 year old son. I am so scared I cant even go pee by myself. I thought I better quite watching the movie and do something that doesn't give me night mares.

I got out of the house for while today and went down to the beach.

It was very cold and windy so I didn't stay long.

I took a few pictures of the things that caught my eye.

I 'm sorry the pictures are so dark,

I had the wrong settings on my camra

This my beach house

NOT

This is where I dock my boat

NOT

This is the hot spot in Port OThis is where me and my peeps hang out

NOT

Meet some of my Peeps

The Girls are a little shy

I guess that's all for the week end

Its late and I need to watch some HGTV to get that awful movie off my mind.