Last Wednesday, our new friend Kinsey got her first moose!
It was a smaller bull (male) moose.
Her husband cutting the last of the large pieces.
Holding the moose's heart.
The moose's heart
One rack of ribs
The head was heavy!
Hoof and Hide
They put the meat in a tote and brought it inside for us to cut up.
Cutting small pieces to put in the electric grinder.
Rinsing the meat, before putting the pieces in the grinder.
Ready for grinding!
Watch and learn
Grinding up the meat.
Ground meat is so useful... in spaghetti, meatloaf, meatballs, tacos, burgers... basically anything you would cook with beef is great with moose too!
Packaging into gallon size freezer bags.
We put close to two pounds of ground into each bag.
Here's looking at 70 lbs. of ground moose, only 1/3 of what we ground up, not including steaks, roasts, and ribs. One moose goes a long way!
Friday night moose hunt, still no luck.
Waiting at the shore of the slough for his ride.
My mountain man
I was also waiting for my friend to pick me up, to go on a shopping trip to Emmonak.
I was trying to take a picture of the tug boat in the background, used for tugging barges.
Crusin' down the Yukon River.
Taking advantage of the Kwikpack Fishery Store (open seasonally) They had a 1/2 off sale on most of their food. Couldn't pass up these buns hun!
Back at the wonderful AC Store in Emmo. They now have a selection of Duck Dynasty cups. You know you've made it big when your merchandise makes it all the way to a remote and isolated village in Alaska! I had to get one of those blue Uncle Si cups for Nathaniel.
We did some serious stocking up.
We take full advantage of our girl time!
On the way back. The sky is almost always this gorgeous blue in the evenings.
The wind on the river was bitterly cold.
Siphoning gas into the black gas container, which connects to the motor.
On Wednesday after school (before we helped cut up moose... it was a long day) we put together a home cross country race for the elementary runners. This year our district is short on travel funds (since we only travel by plane), so elementary sports can't travel.
The race was 1.5 miles and my job was at the turn around. This was my view:
The turn around was at the brand new "Tank Farm" which holds gas for the gas station.
Our elementary Cross Country team with Coach Holly and Coach Nathan
Awards ceremony: we combined boys and girls and gave medals to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place.
We actually had a good turn out, about 30 parents, teachers, and students came to watch.
We had our first snow on Saturday September 21st!!! It melted when it hit the ground, but it was pretty bizarre to watch huge snow flakes falling so early in the year.
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