Read this tonight and am going to TRY and remember to TRY this. Sounds really yummy!

I have to give credit to my daughter Bean. She was right in there, helping her dad through the whole process. She took great interest in the anatomy of the birds, so we turned it into a homeschool science lesson. This is the heart, this is the liver, here is a the bile duct, etc. She learned it and then showed me how it is done. I tell you, if everything goes belly up and we need to live off the land, I want that kid on my team.

Lula didn’t quite have the stomach for it. That’s okay. She and I spent the day putting up more apples. She sliced and quartered and cored and ran everything through the food mill. 12 quarts of applesauce is a lotta applesauce. And I still have more to do — maybe tomorrow.

I joke that the two of them need to stick together — Bean can provide the meat for the table and Lula can cook it. At least I know they will never go hungry.

Kids are dropping like flies from volleyball and dance classes. Swine flu has hit. I am arming my family with kombucha. So far it seems to be keeping the germs away — I don’t know if that is what is doing it, but I would not be surprised. As soon as I get a working camera back I am going to post the kombucha making process. Warning: kombucha is very weird to look at, but once you start drinking it — it is addictive. I crave it every morning before I get going on my run.

Okay, so now I have to go start a batch of chicken feet broth. Yep.