9/24 #1
Mornin/nite Tree Fam
Getting in some 'puter time while I have my mornin' coffee and GMO's own Banyan Tree ...yum!
@Fuzzy Thunderbear ....for me it always came down to feeling like I did what I could..and you have, my friend...I am pretty sure that beef farmer , who sees his stock much differently than you or I... would be out of a job if he did. I think that is why our culture has "others" who carry out the slaughter, butchering, etc. Slaughtering is not my thing..but butchering I can do as a living legacy to my own father, who was a butcher. (Tho he would shake his head at my "hatchet job" as he never considered passing his handiwork down to me.)
I did not grow up "on the farm"..I'm an urban kitt in redneck German clothing ..

....but I spent time on dairy farms and Alaskan ranches...mayb one day I will share the pic of me petting a momma sow..who is plopped down at the doorstep to my friends' cabin...suckling her piglets! Mostly I have seen / assisted with birth/after-birth difficulties in goats...or things like mastitis..bloat...So I share your sorrow. My cats are my extended family...too bad they don't make rouladen and sauerbraten like Ma does

(Attempt to inject a bit of comic relief) In any case,
@Fuzzy Thunderbear and
@Lannie ...and all others here ..thinking of their loved ones...I send Love, Light ....
Off to visit other neighborhoods before I start in on my "room and board" chores