Snow Angel
☆ December 16, 2012
Such a hound.
I felt like I belonged in the dog house on Friday ~ after spending the morning hunched over my computer with my web saint dealing with tech on the Daily Coyote, I had to race to town for a meeting and then threw myself into outside chores. After the stressy morning, I had no desire to be on the computer, but when I chuckled to myself about how I was touching a lot of (elk) hearts, I zipped inside and tweeted about it. And then I glanced at my twitter stream and learned about the school shooting. And felt like a total ass. A bunch of people unfollowed me which is completely understandable, but even more emailed me to ask for the full story behind my elk heart touching. So here it is.
I always thought hunting season was a brief period in October, but that’s not really the case. There are specific dates for different game species, and archery season opens earlier than rifle season, and different areas open and close at different times, and there’s actually quite a lot of nuance. And while bull elk season is a brief period in October and the first days of November, cow elk season extends through December. If someone has a license for a bull elk (male), but doesn’t get one, the license will also cover a cow elk (female). And, while a hunter may only get one bull elk license per season, they may also get a cow license. This is, generally, only done by Wyoming residents who are feeding families and Farmilies, because out-of-state (ie, non-resident) elk licenses are around $800 each while in-state elk licenses are around $40 each. Mike got a bull elk during hunting season (bull elk hunting season, that is), but a few of his friends did not, and were hoping to get cow elk. And Mike had a cow license as well.
Since many people are only interested in the muscle meat of their wild game, Mike is in the habit of bringing me the organs. Liver is Chloe’s favorite food, and heart is Charlie’s. On Friday, Mike and a few friends went hunting and all got elk. And Mike brought me a large pile of hearts and livers. I washed and wrapped them ~ this time, not only for C&C, but for myself as well. I’ve heard heart is really, really good, and my only hang-up with eating it myself is a conditioned one. I don’t want to be governed by conditioning; I want to see if I like it or not. I’m also saving a liver for myself because, though I do think the sight, smell and taste of liver is disgusting – no conditioning about that – I hear raw liver is great for the skin and I am vain enough to test this out. I’ll let you know if my skin looks like a teenager’s by spring.
Jumping back to the beginning: I don’t know how to write anything regarding the school shooting (apologies for not using a euphemism, like “Connecticut,” but I do not think that is appropriate, this needs to be called what it is); my feelings and thoughts are not in publishable form… However, if anyone wants or needs the space to discuss it, or to put their feelings “out there,” feel free to do so here.
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December 16th, 2012 @ 7:04 pm
I don’t understand why people unfollowed you. What’s the connection between Connecticut and elk hearts? …not understanding.
December 16th, 2012 @ 7:05 pm
P.S. Chloe is adorable in her winter coat.
December 16th, 2012 @ 7:07 pm
heart is very nice. it benefits from quick cooking since it can get kind of tough. michael ruhlman has a good recipe, chris cosentino has an instructive video on how to clean heart, and there’s this: http://justcookit.blogspot.com/2010/04/two-ways-with-ox-heart.html i marinated mine for awhile and did a quick sear in a cast-iron skillet.
December 16th, 2012 @ 7:17 pm
My nephew goes to the school the shooting was at (he only goes Monday-Thursday so he was not there at the time) and we know some of the people that were killed. Heck, I went to school with the shooter. Its a terrible thing and I have no sympathy for the man who did it.
However, I did not find your post offensive. Not everyone knew about it right away. We were visiting NC at the time and only found out because of a phone call from my brother-in-law.
December 16th, 2012 @ 7:19 pm
I know your lifestyle and thought nothing of it.
December 16th, 2012 @ 7:36 pm
I do not see why the comment should be deemed offensive even if you had known about the shooting. You could have made an emotional connection with a bunch of people or whatever….
As for not knowing about the shooting right away; I did not know about Princess Diana’s death until 3 days after it happened and only found out then because someone mentioned it. I do not listen to media much….
December 16th, 2012 @ 7:57 pm
I agree with Lesley (#1 comment); I don’t make the connection, either. Plus anyone who follows you would surely know that you wouldn’t make an insensitive comment about a very sensitive situation–elk hearts or no elk hearts. Some people just need to get over themselves.
December 16th, 2012 @ 8:19 pm
Beef heart is popular at our house. Many of our friends designate their cows’ hearts to us, when they pick up their freezer meat.
You can prepare it just as you would roast – bake it in the oven or in the crockpot. Great if you stuff it full of garlic mashed potatoes and bake. Or my favorite is to cut it up like stew meat and make a rich stew with carrots or parsnips, onions, green beans, and corn.
Let us hear what you think of the heart.
December 16th, 2012 @ 8:44 pm
Shreve,
the fact that people un-followed you has nothing to do with you; they obvious don’t know where you are coming from. I immediately thought you meant animal hearts (literally.)
keep tweeting from your heart.
☆ K.
December 16th, 2012 @ 9:37 pm
Regarding the school shooting, even though it is painful, I am trying to read about the lives that were lost and the families that were affected. It seems like the only thing I can do right now.
After dealing with a stressful email exchange from work this weekend, and then learning that a bunch of people unfollowed you on Twitter, it all seems symptomatic of a problem. People seem way, way too quick to jump to conclusions based on little or no information.
December 16th, 2012 @ 10:25 pm
I’m not sure why people would unfollow you. I don’t use Twitter so I really don’t know what that all entails. I am a teacher (in California), and I was profoundly affected by the incident. After saturating myself with the news on Friday night, I’ve spent the whole weekend boycotting the news. We have a serious problem in the US with mental illness. As we try to make every child proficient in our race to the top, we neglect so many other things (like mental health). I’m so sad right now. Forgive me if I don’t want to go to school tomorrow.
December 16th, 2012 @ 10:39 pm
I got unfollowed too. My book was released on the day of the shooting. I’d already blogged it and facebooked it and as I was tweeting it, I got the news via Good Morning America. So I started tweeting about the shooting but people who followed me also saw the book release tweets and well, bye bye followers. I wasn’t upset about being unfollowed; I had my heartbreak in another area altogether.
December 16th, 2012 @ 11:03 pm
Thank you for this post. First, of course, for the picture of your lovely canine lady, for giving us an inside story, and for basically giving your space here on the internet to your readers and followers who might not have another outlet for their words and feelings on this horrible, horrible event. It’s generous, and a refreshing change from my usual online reading.
And on another note, I appreciate so much that you don’t post on a regular basis. It’s such a nice treat to click through my links and be greeted with a surprise picture of a hound dog in the snow.
December 16th, 2012 @ 11:05 pm
Shreve,
I have no idea how anyone could connect the two. Keep up your amazing life.
December 16th, 2012 @ 11:47 pm
chloe looks well fed and ready for winter. today i watched a red and grey squirrel burying stuff at the base of his tree and i thought about you guys hunkering down for the cold season. and yesterday i had a new york strip steak that was SO good. yummers.
December 17th, 2012 @ 12:12 am
I didn’t make any connection between your elk hearts tweet and the shootings. But I did find it to be a bit abrupt and callous at first. Around that same time I read your “I just met a dead porcupine” description of your earrings and just felt kind of saddened by the word choice. But that’s just me being honest about my first impression. I didn’t choose to feel that way. Those thoughts came to me in a flash. I know what you bring to the table and still enjoy your blog, and I know you well enough through your posts to know how much you respect animal life and death. So there you go. But someone else might not be able to process such bold writing/tweets. That’s okay, though. There’s no doubt in my mind that they’ll be back. :o)
December 17th, 2012 @ 12:17 am
Don’t follow the news anymore, found out trough a friend at the market. People are so fast at making connections that do not exist….Elk hearts,Great life, eating hearts, feeling good ! What they need a map ?
December 17th, 2012 @ 8:29 am
I was in the midst of decorating our office for the holidays and more specifically a decorating competition.
Some people stopped helping for awhile. I just went on and told people that I wanted to honor those kids by making something that would have made them and any kid smile.
I later posted a picture of the final cubicle decoration I worked three hours on with the comment that we better win the competition. And then I felt like an asshole because all the surrounding posts were about the shooting. I amended what I posted with the original sentiment.
And I also bawled semi-privately in my car on the way home listening to the President’s speech and the awful details.
December 17th, 2012 @ 8:54 am
I prefer to pray and cry with family and not in public. It was terrible, but that is all I say openly.
Openly, I am focused on the people who where there to help and bless them!
As far as following you – I have no idea why people would stop. You are living your life and not a media junkie like so many others. You tweet and blog about your life -> and that is why we tune in. “We” dream of living a different life, so we follow you and are blessed you let us.
Love seeing Miss Chloe. She is such a pretty girl and I bet belly rubs after her liver are never turned down.
Enjoy your elk parts…. I love hearts, but have just now started liking liver….. it is a ‘growing older’ thing I think….
December 17th, 2012 @ 9:00 am
I saw your tweet, but did not find it offensive. I figured it had something to do with your lifestyle or that you had been touched by the hearts of the children and adults killed in the shooting.
As a parent, the shooting has made me nervous. I had a twinge when I sent my younger children off to there elementary school and made me look at the elementary school in a new light as how unsafe it actually is. You want to say “That could never happen here”, but I am sure that the people in CT said the same thing. I am not a gun control advocate, but I do not beleive taht anyone needs and assault rifle. I additionally beleive that we have went to far with gun control in a sense and that if certain members of school staff had been tained and armed that masacures like this would be less likely to happen. The media sensationalizes these murders and instead of just killing themselves, they want to go down in history as a somebody instead of a nobody. Meanwhile, the media reports information that is inconclusive and ruins lives of other people, like how the reported that Ryan Lanza was the shooter. Meanwhile, Ryan was at work, doing his job. They reported that Alan Lanza’s mother was one of the teachers, then say that she wasn’t. Listening to the media is like playing telephone when you where a kid. The message never comes out accurately.
December 17th, 2012 @ 9:02 am
Sorry for all the spelling mistakes…..I am typing way to fast as the whole scenario has me upset and filled with anxiety. My condolences go out to anyone who knew the people who were brutally killed and please know that my prayers are with you in your time of suffering.
December 17th, 2012 @ 9:22 am
Shreve,
I appreciate your honest response. The shootings were horrific, the trauma unimaginable. The discussions seem as polarized as ever regarding blame … Reactioniary responses do not seem to be helping. The flurry of news after previous shootings, does not seem to have helped prevent this one … so tragically for the many small children (and so many families) affected. We need responses that make real change.
Community is one solution – like on here. When people in a community know one another, they are not afraid to say something. When we value the importance of connectedness, we don’t balk at saying something to a neighbour about their behavior … who knows what it might prevent.
My neighbour is unimpressed that I do not just accept that his dog gets loose because he refuses to walk her or treat her like much mor than a plant. When it impacts me, like repeatedly requiring my involvement to prevent her being hit by a car on a busy road in front of my house, I act, in a variety of ways. Recently, I called Animal Control with the intention of letting them know the owner. Maybe he will have second thoughts about allowing his dog get outside without paying much attention – even if it’s for the cost of a license, or anger at me – at least he’s thinking!
Acceptance and support of whoever are able to be involved in community or connectedness, allows us to deal with the actions of those that are compromised in some way – for whatever reason.
Right now, I am seeing the results of mental illness in the many people who are using this awful shooting as a reason to become further entrenched in their political views. It is rampant on the discussion boards.
This horrific, senseless tragedy is a result of what is operating under the surface in American. Blaming, rather than getting to the root of the problem AND each of us taking responsibility to address the common causes, allows the same issues to perpetuate and grow.
December 17th, 2012 @ 10:41 am
You can please some of the people some of the time but not all of the people all of the time. Don’t think I got that saying correct but you get my drift.
I think the reaction of the “jumpers” is an indication of the problem. I doubt that any of them inquired what your tweet was all about but decided to put their own intent on it to grandstand and feel in their own way the power of “doing something” when they felt helpless in the shooting of those poor babes and their guardians. Perhaps if people came in closer to problems instead of judging and pushing away then some of the real problems would disappear. Not sure I said any of this right but it feels right to say something.
December 17th, 2012 @ 11:13 am
This is a tradgedy beyond words. I think most of us feel empty, speechless. In that, we are one.
December 17th, 2012 @ 11:27 am
Agreed Christine. My heart is heavy and I cry a lot. Words cannot even describe the extent of what I feel. Our country mourns deeply.
I have no clue why anyone would unfollow Shreve. I honestly don’t get the connection.
Love the “hound’s” pic!
December 17th, 2012 @ 11:42 am
Heart is really, surprisingly good. I used to be turned off by it (100% conditioning), but after having it at Kushibar in Seattle (http://www.kushibar.com/), I was totally changed. Grilled chicken hearts are delicious. I imagine elk heart will be good, too! Let us know what you think (and how you prepare it!)
December 17th, 2012 @ 1:58 pm
A tragedy like this, especially in a time when details of it reach fast and far, causes strong reactions. Anyone with any degree of empathy feels fear, anger, despair and so on. I certainly did. Those who unfriended you are just reacting and your tweet gave them a target; it wouldn’t surprise me if their heightened sensitivity made them do the same to others during this time.
Live your hard-won life, Shreve. We delight in your generosity in sharing aspects of with us.
Gorgeous pic of Chloe, showing Charlie isn’t the only one who can blend with her surroundings! Though its beauty also makes me cold; snow is great to look at but I prefer not to romp in it.
December 17th, 2012 @ 2:08 pm
Nice to see Chloe.
Nice of you to acknowledge the situation.
YOU have the big heart.
Happy Holidays to you and your CLAN.
December 17th, 2012 @ 2:27 pm
I have only eaten beef heart; slow-roasted with stuffing, and it is very delicious. Kind of reminds me of the taste and texture of chicken gizzards, so if you like those, you’ll probably like heart.
December 17th, 2012 @ 2:53 pm
My grandmother made me try chicken heart once when I was a kid and I remember thinking that it wasn’t bad at all. Haven’t tried it since. I hope you post pics of your heart & liver meals!
I agree with the others with regard to the shooting tragedy in that I am absolutely positively speechless and heartbroken.
December 17th, 2012 @ 3:05 pm
I so wish I could give some comfort to those parents. I’m not sure if it’s something you’d ever not feel guilty about, even though no one would ever blame them for going about a seemingly normal day as they always did. I want so badly to make them understand that this is not their fault.
Those poor, poor families.
December 17th, 2012 @ 3:46 pm
:) <3
December 17th, 2012 @ 4:05 pm
This post seemed like something you might appreciate:
http://ambulancedriverfiles.com/2012/12/17/for-newtown-volunteer-ambulance-corps/
December 17th, 2012 @ 4:42 pm
No offense taken with the elk heart tweet. Am however, glad you tweeted again to say they were elk hearts. When my daughter was a baby I made all her food from scratch and the baby book I was using said the best protein was cow tongue. My butcher wrapped it up out of my sight (on purpose I’m sure). Expecting to see something akin to ground beef I almost hit the floor when I unwrapped a whole cow tongue on my counter! I boiled that grotesque thing and put it in the baby food mill and made the most delicious meat paste and mac&cheese goop any baby ever flung from a highchair. I wonder if a coyote or his dog pal would like tongue?
December 17th, 2012 @ 4:55 pm
Oh Carol, my dad was fond of organ meats and tongue seemed to show up more often than not on the table. I could not and never will get used to a piece of that delicacy in my mouth, you can feel the taste bud bumps and I’m sure my own tongue was traumatized. EWWWWW. No way was it delicious, heart and kidney were though.
December 17th, 2012 @ 5:41 pm
I know you and your situation.
You would never post anything insensitive.
I assumed you simply weren’t in touch with the news of the instant. I took what you said at face value and read nothing more into it. I assumed it had something to do with hunting.
I would never be so vain as to eat raw liver but if you want to give it a try, more power to you. I’ll pass.
December 17th, 2012 @ 6:44 pm
The way I go for liver is cut it into 1/2 to 3/4″ steaks and soak them in milk for a couple of hours then do a bound breading of buckwheat flour, then a egg wash, followed by spelt meal with spices and herbs. Fry in a hot pan with a little oil, and do not overcook, liver is best pink inside. The flour and meal parts can be messy so I do those in plastic bags, the egg wash part with tongs in a pie plate. Put the liver on a rack or towel to dry a bit, fry and serve hot. Gluten free…enjoy. Oh the leftovers cut into cubes (as with heart) are dandy in scrambled eggs in the morning. A warning though organ meat is pretty rich, so go easy as Shreve with gout is not what we want to see.
December 17th, 2012 @ 8:32 pm
Was steeped in sorrow over Friday’s events, but it never occurred to me that anything was amiss in your post re: elk hearts. Guess we each respond in our own unique way.
My heart breaks for the families, friends and classmates of the little ones. Each and every one is in my prayers. Thx for providing the forum to say so.
Love the pic of Chloe – she is just one beautiful, lovable hound. The perfect gift to your readers on a mournful Monday. Thank you.
December 17th, 2012 @ 10:15 pm
Thank you for the gift of Chloe.
December 18th, 2012 @ 6:29 am
Oh Chloe. What a beautiful, graceful lady she is :))))
December 18th, 2012 @ 7:03 am
As a mother myself, my heart aches for the parents who lost their beautiful little children.
December 18th, 2012 @ 7:12 am
Great pic of the dog. :) I too dont know why your comment would make people unfollow you.
December 18th, 2012 @ 10:02 am
I agree with everyone how would you have known when you were talking about hearts about the shooting. the people that untweeted you, you don’t need in your life!
December 18th, 2012 @ 10:21 am
Number one: HI Chloe!
Number two: The fact that people unfollowed you had to have been a gut reaction and clearly don’t understand the life you live. I live in CT as you know, and I’m only about 45 minutes away from where the shooting took place. However, I’m originally from Pennsylvania and grew up with a lot of families who made their living off the land, as you do. What bothers me most is when people use a tragedy like this and seize it as an opportunity to tout their specific political platform. I’ll quote what I emailed a friend of mine in regards to all this talk about taking away guns:
“My friend in Wyoming owns a farm, owns a coyote as a pet, and has absolutely NO qualms shooting a coyote or wolf if it is trying to kill/hurt her horses and sheep. People forget that a good chunk of America still makes their living off the land. Are we going to tell them they can’t have guns to protect their cows that make our milk, that feed us meat, and the sheep who’s wool keeps us warm?”
I have always had an incredible amount of respect for what you and Mike do everyday Shreve. We love you. <3
December 18th, 2012 @ 1:04 pm
Not sure if elk is considered the same as cow so don’t know if this info matters. However, cow organ meat, while it may taste good is not overall healthy for you so heart, liver, etc shouldn’t be eaten.
Considering the cost of license, weapon, ammo, gas for the car etc. pound for pound is it cost effective to kill for meat?
December 18th, 2012 @ 1:29 pm
CZ ~ amazing comment, your words are so vivid!! yes, they get tongue, too.
L ~ do you know someone else with a coyote? while I appreciate your sentiment, I don’t have sheep and I’ve never said I’d have no problem shooting a coyote…. :(
M ~ Cow organ meat is unhealthy ONLY if it comes from an animal that was in the feedlot system or fed corn/grain. Grass finished, free range beef organs are incredibly healthy, as are those from elk. Elk meat comes to about 22 cents a pound, so yes, very. (EDIT: it’s 22 cents/pound for *residents* – for out of state hunters paying $800/license plus travel costs, etc, etc, it’s not about economical meat)
Everyone else ~ I’ve so appreciated reading your words, thank you ~
December 18th, 2012 @ 5:30 pm
If someone unfollowed just because you made a joke about elk hearts, then they are, if you’ll pardon me, too sensitive. It is, if you’ll pardon me, like making a comment about buying a pizza and a teenager with Acne getting butthurt thinking you’re making a slight about them. … or, more accurately, someone else who DOESN’T have acne getting worried about what that person over there who DOES have Acne will think that the remark about getting a pizza was aimed at them.
December 18th, 2012 @ 10:08 pm
Chloe- total doll.
Would not even cross my mind that you would ever, ever relate touching hearts to the school shooting tragedy. These people just don’t know you or your heart and are too quick to judge. You are innocent and just because others missed how unrelated it was shouldn’t be your problem. Don’t let anyone make you feel bad-you owe no apology or explanation.
Thanks for keeping us provided with farmily news and love and bearing through all this judgment at times to get it to us. Your blog is the only one worth following- educational, artistic, literary and full of love for life and this universe– a true treat!
December 18th, 2012 @ 10:25 pm
I can’t write words about Sandy Brook that could ever express the feelings of my heart. It all hit too deep inside.
December 19th, 2012 @ 6:26 am
I don’t have much to say about the shooting, other than the fact it punched me in the gut. The shooter was obviously a tortured soul and did not get the help he needed.
Morgan Freeman had a good thought: the media splashes his life on the front page, chewing over the facts or non-facts, in essence glorifying him and the act. He says “remember the name of just one of the victims”, not the shooter.
Who cares who unfollows. Then again I don’t Tweet, Facebook, MySpace, am still on dialup, and have a TV antenna and rarely turn the box on. Of all the bad things about the internet, the worst is the instant judgment and the instant reaction, especially when based on half truths.
Now about heart! Hope your kitties are getting some too, taurine is good for cats!
I grind heart for my dogs (one can’t digest pieces of it), and one day I made a meatloaf with ground heart, ground turkey and ground pork. Best meatloaf I ever ate!
Whole, I find it rather chewy and like one poster said, texture similar to gizzard.
So if you don’t have one, might put a meat grinder on your Xmas wish list!
I want to bury my fingers in Chloe’s fur.
December 19th, 2012 @ 6:52 am
Not much experience with eating heart here, and no experience with cooking it….but isn’t heart, like most pieces of meat, just another muscle?
December 19th, 2012 @ 9:51 am
I know that we have “as it happens” news these days (though most of it so amateur it hardly passes as journalism, in my opinion), but that doesn’t mean everyone is tuned into it.
I think there’s a perception that everyone in the whole wide world Tweets, or tunes into the news every minute, and as a person who personally DOESN’T, I know I may be in the minority, but I’m not alone.
We don’t have cable. I used to have the CBC radio on at almost all times, in the background, but my kids are now old enough to ask what “human trafficking” is, or “bush brides”, or “why that mother killed her children”… and I now leave the radio off.
I didn’t hear of the news until much later, it’s unreasonable to assume someone is being insensitive just because they have not accessed the information.
We do eat organ meats. I LOVE liver. My favourite breakfast is a fried fresh chicken liver, some pepper, garlic, salt & cayenne on it, with a fried egg, flash heated scoop of salsa and some chopped avocado on top (if I have it). MMM GOOD.
December 19th, 2012 @ 10:14 am
LOVE CHLOE!!!
I personally don’t Tweet, Facebook or any other group media sites. My TV hasn’t been turned on in weeks. I don’t listen to the news on the radio, I constantly listen to audio books. Only at work do I check the internet news once or twice a day and on weekends have no clue what goes on in our world.
On the liver part, in our bodies and in animals bodies (I asked my vet) the liver is an organ that filters toxins and poisons from our bodies. To me, even animals that are grass fed and free ranch get into junk ~ drinking from steams that might have contamination in them. Even people who eat healthy diets full of fresh organic food have some toxins and poisons in them; the air that we breathe isn’t pure either. Therefore I would never eat a liver from any animal and choose not to feed my dogs or cats anything that has liver in it since it is a filtering organ for all bodies. Just my two cents. :)
Happy Holidays and warm fuzzy hugs of love to ALL the farmily!
December 19th, 2012 @ 11:44 am
Don’t feel bad you didn’t hear the news till late in the day– I was home sick that day but neither of us put the news on until the evening, when we were as stunned as everyone else.
I’ve participated in a “Gun Control” debate thread at a forum I belong to, and have already been called “ignorant” because I think assault rifles DO need controls, if not bans. Certainly hunters and folks living in wilderness areas NEED their firearms of choice, and should have them.
As I think about it, I wonder if maybe it’s a matter of differing perceptions. We live in the same world, but some of us don’t see the need for personal protection in an urban world, and others are determined to be armed and trained to protect themselves and their homes “against tyranny”, as one pro-gun poster put it. Another said she lives in a border state and needs protection from criminals.
Meanwhile, our culture teaches us guns resolve all problems neatly, between commercial breaks. Young men practice their skills in “first-person shooter” games, then decide to make up a “live” version of it, perhaps. Certainly it was beyond a bad idea to teach a disturbed young man to shoot an assault rifle.
Yesterday, here in my state, a man released from jail went to his ex-girlfriend’s home, shot her and two other people and then killed himself. She’d broken off their relationship because he was abusive.
Also out here, a mother took a gun to her daughter’s middle school and threatened the other children, demanding they stop bullying her kid. Fortunately, she was arrested without shots being fired.
Since when did guns replace help lines and counselors?
December 21st, 2012 @ 7:26 am
Pat D – About the counselors. I don’t understand why Adam Lanza wasn’t in therapy and on meds from an early age. Those parents really dropped the ball for him. And for those 27 victims.
December 22nd, 2012 @ 7:51 am
FG-Elaine:
It’s a common misconception that liver is somehow toxic because it filters toxins. If it was that full of toxins, the critter would be dead.
December 25th, 2012 @ 6:47 am
Beautiful. Seeing her face is balm for the pain we are still dealing with here in CT. I wish I had the answer to what’s to be done in order to stop these heinous tragedies… I’m glad that dialogue has begun and can only hope it continues with a positive outcome that will keep ALL persons as safe as can be in a world that seems to have gone mad from time to time. I am praying for a better world in 2013.
December 26th, 2012 @ 1:42 pm
Shreve, I wasnt aware of what had happened until later in the morning. Only reason I found out was I was scrolling threw my FB page and one friend made a comment.
As far as the debate as to “why” and “how” this happened.. well. My fave has been “this happened because we kicked God out of the schools” Sorry but no.
Being a good person. A sane person etc does not begin in school. It begins in the home. And it was in this defective individuals home that it all went horribly wrong.
My husband is agnostic. I am Wiccan. Our daughter was welcomed into Gods world. But we do not go to church. However she is kind, empathetic, generous, caring and smart.
Church, God and prayer didnt “make” her this way. My husband and I did because we are raising to her to this way. It’s called parenting. And that is what is missing. There is no longer a Village raising the children because we are all so busy. And sadly some parents are raising their kids either.
There were SO many warning signs that no one stepped up and said “hey!” about with this guy.
If someone(a neighbor, past teacher, family member, doctor etc) had been as vigilant when dealing with this monster in the past.. as we are expected to be when it comes to terrorism in our airports and public places in general now, then maybe this tragedy would not have happened.
And yes, there needs to be stricter gun control laws as well. No one needs assault weapons. And I live in a city that has a crime problem. I have a pistol and a permit to carry. I believe in the Second Amendment.. but there needs to be changes made
December 27th, 2012 @ 10:26 am
When I was a very little girl, I used to ask my mom for bits of raw liver. She said it made her stomach turn, but she gave it to me and I loved it. I’ve been a vegetarian for almost 40 years, and chicken liver is the only “meat” I can tolerate. My doctor (who is also vegetarian) says organ tissue and muscle tissue are totally different, so I probably couldn’t handle heart. Anyway, try chicken livers with a bit of Madiera wine and Dijon mustard in the sauce. Yum.
As for the “Connecticut situation”, that young man’s mother failed him miserably. He desperately needed help, and she obviously knew it. As far as God being involved goes – He gave us ten commandments and freewill to follow them or not. He doesn’t reach down and “Zap” us if we go the wrong direction, but eventually we must all answer for our own decisions.
December 28th, 2012 @ 3:50 pm
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December 29th, 2012 @ 10:46 am
Cathy A:
The majority of people can eat organ meats if prepared properly.
But in my case,having a very perverse form of arthritis, organ meats are an absolute no no (and so is some other food,would take too long to explain why here). It is a pity though, I absolutely love steak and kidney pie and have an absolutely fabulous spicy liver recipe I can no longer use.
It is just a matter of common sense. If you have health issues/dietary concerns, do a little research, check with your doctor etc.
December 30th, 2012 @ 12:35 pm
Sheve, ignore being unfollowed, it has no bearing on you, your site or any comments you have made. I saw it the day you made it on your page. It was obvious from your lifestyle and where you live (and your previous posts)that something good was in the making for the pups. Don’t sweat the small stuff and don’t even consider an apology. BTW, I live within 100 miles of that tragedy.
Now, as for heart and liver, both are good. Beef heart, to me, tastes stronger. More like a roast beef flavor. It needs a long, slow, moist cooking. I love properly prepared calves liver and chicken liver. I can not voice an opinion on elk liver but I’m sure if you Google it there will be plenty of info. Hope you all enjoy your spoils from the hunters. Have a Happy New Year as well.
December 31st, 2012 @ 8:41 pm
Too cute Chloe!!
January 9th, 2013 @ 11:56 pm
I don’t like animals being killed: I don’t allow hunting on my land. Nevertheless, I’m realistic about it. I just want to say that you’re too sweet and intelligent for someone like me, and I have trouble reading your Web site.
January 29th, 2013 @ 9:15 pm
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