We've been cleaning out freezers out for the last several days to make room for the turkeys we'll be keeping, as well as several we need to "hold" for some people.  My beloved found some very large boxes of ground tallow that needed to be rendered down for soap making.  These boxes of fat were taking up lots of room!  I've been cooking down fat and cooking down fat and.........!  By cooking the fat down and straining it through an old 1/2 t-shirt, it takes up far less room.  This makes my husband very happy.  Having the tallow rendered and ready to use makes me happy!

The kids spent the last 2 days at some friends' house deer hunting.  I was kind of looking forward to them bringing home some deer tallow to make soap with.  They got skunked.  No deer.  Just a houseful of tired, windblown kids.  Maybe next year.