My neighbor across the street is packing up and moving back to Oregon at the end of the week. He called my wife over to his garage, and asked her if we like venison, which she answered in the affirmative.

He gave us 20 pounds of ground venison, 10 pounds of venison steaks, 2 full back straps, and a couple of roasts. He also had about 30 pounds of beef and pork that he gave us.

I just paid $50 for his freezer so I can keep this meat frozen...our freezer is already full. His son and nephew are going to move it into my basement later today when they get off work.

The venison came from his kills this past Fall, and the beef was bought about a month ago.

We're going to go through the meat and figure out what is going to be kept and what is going to be taken to my oldest daughter in Ohio. Since the girl child doesn't like venison, we'll be keeping all of it. My other two kids love it.

It looks like we're going to be buying his living room set and dining room table for my oldest daughter as well. She's moving into an apartment at the end of the month...she's been living with her boyfriend's family, and they are moving to a different city, and her boyfriend and her don't want to move, so they're needing a ton of furniture to outfit the new apartment.

I can't wait to get all of this extra furniture out of my house and storage locker. After a week and a half, I'm tired of the maze that's been created in my house from all the crap we've been collecting for her. I've got a used bedroom set, brand new mattress and box springs, dressers, chairs, lamps, cookware, dishes, cooking utensils...just about everything a person needs to set up a first apartment...all in my dining room. The only thing we're missing is a sofa, but I'll probably pick one up at her local Big Lots and have it delivered when she moves in.

Anyway...free meat like this is hard to turn down, especially since it's still frozen.

What a morning!! What a gift!!

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