Yesterday Cannon had the day off and had helped carve up a moose for the widows in our church. He was sent home with a little rib meat. Rib meat is good for hamburger or sausage. If you've never had moose breakfast sausage, you haven't lived. Lived in Alaska, that is. Moose is so lean that fat has to be added to it so the suet (pork fat) is on the left in a bag, the moose meat is getting cut into pieces...

...and then he fed it into the meat grinder. After grinding it into sausage, we seasoned it with maple breakfast sausage seasoning. We bagged it in little 1 lb bags, tied 'em and froze 'em. This morning we cooked some up and it was really good! Very mild with just a hint of maple. Went great with our pancakes! Just another day in the life of an Alaskan.

*Sidestory*: Last week we went to McDonalds and after taking a bite of my hamburger I asked Cannon if he would taste it because the meat tasted funny to me, like it was bad. He took a bite and then said "Honey, it's beef, that's what tastes funny. You're too used to moose meat!" It was funny and true. We got a good laugh out of it.

These next 2 photos are totally random but very cute. Caleb loves to put on and march around in his Xtra Tuff boots. And he loves to snoop around in the fridge for treats...

...this is his immediate response after being told "no"...Oh, the drama!! At least he chose a soft place to land.

Speaking of lying around, I spend a lot of time in this chair. I've had to really watch myself around Caleb. It is difficult not to pick him up and when he gives me a hug, I've got this neck brace in the way. The other day he was pretty fed up with it and pretty tired. He ended up crawling onto my lap and falling asleep. He hasn't fallen asleep in my lap for ages and it was the next best thing to picking him up or holding him. (By the way, I was finishing up "The Zookeeper's Wife". Great book!)

So what does one do when one can't do much? At the Grand Opening of Target last night we found the capsules that grow animals. So this morning we plopped 3 different animals pills into the water...

...and watched them grow...

...pretty cool. Except it only took like 5 minutes, so what to do the rest of the day? It's been foggy and overcast all day. Fortunately there are still colored leaves on the trees. Much too soon there will be no color and all will be white, gray and black....mostly white.

We watched 'Horton Hears A Who' and finally daddy came home and put Caleb down for a nap. And then he took a nap himself. Dishes can wait, laundry can wait, clutter in every room that needs picking upping can wait...I'm blogging and then I'm going to take a nap too!