We'll go back up tomorrow and finish getting our deer ready to process, with the intention of cutting and packing on Tuesday. One will be our 'hamburger' deer. With the exception of the backstraps, every thing else will be ground into burger and packaged into one pound packets. The other will be cut up into steaks and roasts. 

Backstraps, AKA 'Preacher meat', so named because it is the tenderest meat of the deer and the sort of meat that you'd serve your best company...like the preacher.  I'm pretty sure that you'd go to hell for grinding that up. 

So. That's been the project today. 

This is the high holy day of football. The first 'can't be missed' game was at 1. The Steelers beat the Bengals. The last game of the day is on right now. The Bills are playing the Los Angeles Rams. For those who don't follow football, the Bills are from Buffalo, and Buffalo is in the middle of the big snow. Fans showed up to dig the stadium out for the game today. Six feet of snow. 

They got it done, though, and the game is on going as I type. The Bills are winning 21-3. To be expected really. Buffalo is used to snow. Los Angeles doesn't see much of it, let alone 6 feet of it. It is snowing like crazy right now, nearly a white out.  It almost seems like an unfair advantage. 

The most amazing thing to me is that people are sitting there in a blizzard watching the game. My son and his wife had that experience once. As a surprise, his wife bought him tickets to a Bills game. There was a terrible storm, but they drove six hours to see that game anyway. We have wonderful pictures of two half frozen abominable snow people sitting in their bleacher seats as the snow fell heavily. One of them was still smiling. 

It took them way longer than 6 hours to get home, and the takeaway from this experience was that given the choice between freezing in their bleacher seats, and watching from the warm comfort of their own livingroom, they'd pick the livingroom every time. 

I cooked our Thanksgiving turkey today, and we were thankful.