She came by with two of her Beagles, Spirit and Xanadu, to practice weaves in a different location. It's important, see, to get your D used to performing all the obstacles in strange places, with different smells, people, dogs, etc., so they don't get psyched out at trials. Tracey did that awhile, then it turns out she was going to take another beagle, Lego, out tracking. She had "laid a track" about 3 hours before in a big field behind a McDonalds in Denham Springs. I asked if I could come along and watch, brought Lucky, and she gave me an introductory lesson. It was neat.
I have already ordered the book, "Tracking From The Ground Up", and am waiting for it to come in so I can teach Lucky the basics, then I'm supposed to get in Kay's class in January. Not that I can ever compete with Lucky in AKC tracking, because they only allow pure-bred scent hounds to compete (a stupid rule, in my opinion, since any dog of any breed can accidently have extraordinary skills the same way people do). But we can have some fun, and I study more closely, learn what she's is made of, and what the tracking thing is all about.
On the way home from the track I got a call from Thom and Judy. They have some turkey carcasses for me to make turkey soup with, and a bunch of giblets. They also gave me a whole fried turkey. So I knew what I'd be doing last night, boiling turkey bones.
Next, we went to Nedra's house to see the progress on her workshop. WOW! Impressive. Now that she is retired (at age 70) she is going to have time for lots of projects. I got a chance to show John all her framed jig saw puzzles, and we got a chance to talk about LCCOC a bit, possibilities for publicity and fundraising, a stronger mentorship program, and other things that have been on my mind. Nedra is a fellow club member, our Treasurer and Trial Secretary, who's been in the club for over 35 years. She's been on the board forever and knows a lot about how the club works, not to mention she is also my advanced agility instructor.
Then I went to Thom's and picked up my turkey. Turns out there was only one carcass and it was so burned I couldn't use it. But the whole one was so delicious, I have never tasted such a delicious turkey. It wasn't burned on the outside like most fried turkeys I've seen, and injected with something scruptious. I called and told them to remember the exact steps but they said they are always experimenting and couldn't remember what batch that was. So, I'll probably never have such a good turkey again. Oh, I also picked up about 3 lbs of giblets. When Thom buys his turkeys, he doesn't use the giblet packages, so he saves them for me. If I don't cook them for myself (John hates giblets), I will use them to make dog treats.
I sliced up all the meat and put it in the freezer in 1 lb. containers, half white and half dark. We ate about a pound of it for supper. I boiled the bones and set them out to cool in my freezer room overnight (in fall and winter, with temperatures in the 30's to low 50's, I open the window and use the room as a refrigerator). Today, I picked 3 lbs of meat off the bones (what most people throw away), saved all the necks and skin for the dogs and cats, and am making a huge pot of turkey soup right now. We have weekend company coming in around 8. Maybe they'll be hungry.
Gotta go clear some clutter, dust some furniture.
Upwards and onward,
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