We were already in bed when...

Dad checked the temperature last night: 55 degrees outside. That is way too warm for a deer to be left hanging all night. So Dad went to the store and got ice to stuff in the chest cavity. As Dad and T.J. were starting to put the ice in place, they heard a very disturbing sound. Coyotes. Not a pleasant sound to hear coming from your neighbor’s yard when you have a huge buck hanging in your tree. That is why, at midnight last night, we started butchering a monster buck in our garage.

We finally finished that gory process around 2:00 a.m. (At least we are done with most of it – we still need to grind the hamburger.) Needless to say we are all really tired, especially Dad and T.J. since they were pushing 22 hours straight at two in the morning.

Here are some more pictures from earlier in the day.