Thanksgiving was in the air. Our turkeys were scheduled to join their respective customers for mealtime. We had raised them on the spacious pastures of our new farm. As they were too large to transport back to our home we decided to process them on the farm. We moved all the equipment over there. Tubs, buckets, hoses, the sink, the dunker, the plucker, knives, boxes of cleaners, towels , on and on. After finishing up the chores back home (feeding the cat, dogs, and goats. Watering the seedlings) we set off to the farm late Tuesday. It was almost dark before we got to the farm. We were going to move the tractor out of the shed and set up in there. A dead battery was the news we got. Sigh. So we did some setup and then went on to bed. Usually the first order of business the next day is someone gets up about 3 o’clock in the morning to plug in the dunker to heat the water then back to bed. As we had a small flock to dispatch we thought we didn’t need to get going so early so we aimed for 5 o’clock. By next morning the water was barely warm. Oops. We had waited too late. We finished set up and waited for the water to get hot. We added more hot water from the stove top. Finally we tried the first bird. It was hard but we got it plucked and cleaned. As the water continued to heat it got easier. We finished up by 1:00 and started the cleanup. Our first customer came by about 3:00. We delivered the rest of the birds around 5:00 and our day was finished.
Stanley