Home curing of meat, made easy!

I lust after Nancy's perfect chair. Here is an estate sale chair that I paid $15 for a few months ago that I am contemplating trading for it, but I do really like it (the blue one) (also the orange one).
Nancy is a very generous, kind person and has given me other things I have lusted after in her house; a wonderful old wooden magazine holder/box and the white comforter that you see snippets of under the book in the photos below.





I didn't do as well as Nancy today. At The Cookie House, I purchased a used wheelbarrow for my dear husband, who doesn't complain when I go out for hours every Saturday, leaving him alone with the children. It was only $5. I didn't take a picture of it. You know what a wheelbarrow looks like. Especially a used one.
My excellent find of the day was a book of home-butchering and curing. Nancy encouraged me to purachse it for 25 cents. Since I can't crop/rotate/do anything with photos, you'll have to turn your monitor to see how to slice open the belly of a hog. Because so many of you partake of home butchering. The funny thing is in the preface of the book, the authors clearly state that millions of Americans butcher at home. The publishing date is 1941. Perhpas millions did then.


Here you have Mrs. Happy Homemaker making good sausage. Mmmm mmmm.

Here you have a better picture of how to string up a hog and slice off the head.

The front of the book.

A word about the stuffed animal giving birth: this was easily the funniest thing I 'd seen all day. If you are at all reluctant about telling your kids about the facts of life, why, here you have the perfect prop. Just sit down with this fuzzy creature and say, "Here, kids, see, babies are made this way!" And pull out 3 identically happy puppies out of a smiling mama dog, and bam! talk's all over! Whew! You're done! That was easy and quick!