New Year Festivities
We wish a happy new-year to all. This is certainly shaping up to be a great new year for us with almost a meter of snow in the past two days.
Tomoe and I spent the weekend in Gunma Prefecture's Ueno Mura. We were helping pound rice for elderly villagers so they could have a traditional new year's celebration - I just hope we are not responsible for any deaths. The highlight of the weekend though was when the neighbor and his buddies came back with a freshly killed deer. Coming from Michigan, one would expect that I have at least had plenty of opportunity to see deer beingfilleted, but I was one of the few people I knew that had never hunted.
The deer meat was amazing. I almost had a chance to eat the raw liver, but there was too much going on and somehow we only ended up with a pile of ribs to be grilled. It reminds me of the first time I ever ate deer meat. I was at a friends house and his mother made it for dinner, telling us it was steak, thinking that if we knew it was deer we would not want to try it. It was the best steak I had ever had and it was not until I told her to give the recipe to my mom that she told me it was actually bambi.
Comments
Hey, Happy New year! V V. Interesting with the deer.
I feel compelled to comment as a good friend of mine spent the winter solstice weekend (Bloody hippies!!)....(night of the 23rd Dec) in a beautiful location other half the planet-side away: http://www.ashdownpark.com/
Eating self-hunted spit roast venison to see in the solstice. The deer need culling or overrun...
Things change, things stay the same.... Hope 2008 brings you much joy and happiness.
All the best...!
Posted by: Anonymous | January 2, 2008 01:54 AM
Hey, Happy New year! V V. Interesting with the deer.
I feel compelled to comment as a good friend of mine spent the winter solstice weekend (Bloody hippies!!)....(night of the 23rd Dec) in a beautiful location other half the planet-side away: http://www.ashdownpark.com/
Eating self-hunted spit roast venison to see in the solstice. The deer need culling or overrun...
Things change, things stay the same.... Hope 2008 brings you much joy and happiness.
All the best...!
Posted by: Ten | January 2, 2008 01:55 AM
Hiya bastish,
I've been reading your blog for a little while now. Looks great how things are shaping up for you up there in the mountains. The deer-head on-bench-next-to-old-man smokin' picture is priceless. Thanks for sharing and a Happy New Year to you folks!
-Ken
Posted by: KenElwood | January 6, 2008 06:22 PM