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Daddy had a successful day bird hunting! He came home, all smiles, with 2 beautiful pheasants~ (is that how you spell that?)

Kaebrie was fascinated! She kept wanting to pet them!

They sure are pretty! We have more tail feathers for you if you want them JuJu!

So, Sam spends some time on the internet, trying to read about how is the best way to "prepare" them. He finds out, that in England, they HANG the birds for a few days in the cold, BEFORE they de-feather and cut them up.

WARNING: for the "easily grossed out" please skip this explanation! :-)
Apparently, when anything dies, rigor mortis sets in, making all the muscles hard and stiff. If you wait long enough, the rigor mortis will go away, causing the muscles to be soft again. THAT is why they hang them whole and wait, waiting for rigor mortis to go away, then cut up the bird when it is all soft to eat!

So, since it wasn't quite cold enough outside to hang meat safely, he used the next best thing. My fridge! Thankfully it was the drink fridge in the garage!! But here they hang (or hung, they are gone now) for 3 days. They are now nice little pieces of meat wrapped in foil in the freezer. I do admit, everytime we had company all week, the kids asked them to go open the fridge! :-)

Would this make make a good advertisement for Coke products??? :-)