More random pics

Hard to belive Zack has grown this much in less than a year.

Random Older Pictures of Zack for nihon-Jin Grand ma

Random Pics

I thought this picture looked cool. here is the pig cleaned and butterflied. Looks like 2 pigs :)

I just wanted to associated Molly with the pig killing. We took this pic at a wedding. congrads Josh and Molly!

More Zack cuteness.

Pig Roast - Delivery

We got up at 4:30 am to start cooking it and didnt bother taking pictures.

Here we are bringing it inside.

I put to much coals on the end and ended up burning the head a little bit. But all the other meat was fantastic!

Satomi making a pig of herself as she cant wait to get started eating :)

Pig Roast - Butter fly

Working together being extra careful to only split the backbone and skull without breaking the skin.


Brother In Law thinking, I wouldn't do it like that if I were him :)

Almost got it

Pig Roast - Butterfly time

Here is my brother in law giving advice on how to best butterfly the pig.

Here is me ignoring his advice and sticking to the 3 cubans article.

Enough with the talk and brother in law shows me where he wanted me to cut :) (Actually, it worked out pretty well)


Zack crawling over to see what the comotion is all about.

Pig roast - More hair removal

kelly playing with the camera during the hair burning.





I dont have a meat scale yet, so I used our home scale to weigh myself then weigh myself with the pig and subtracted the difference. the scale showed he weighed about 65lbs dressed, but im sure this is not entirely accurate. Also, this is the pig after the hair removal and scraping. I scraped him again once he was in the house too.



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Pig roast - Hair Removal

I did my first whole pig roast for Christmas. I followed the steps from 3 guys from Miami in how to cook it. Except I did not buy a prepared pig, but rather raised one from a baby and killed and cleaned it myself. I'll spare you pictures of me killing and gutting it. But here are the more interesting pictures.

Next time I think I'll do the hair removal before gutting it, but live and learn.

We used blow torches to burn the hair off, then scraped off the burnt hair and skin with a knife.

Church Play - Zack as a Sheep

This is the best I could do. he was interested in the instruments.

Zack fighting to see the choir.

Zack in Santa Outfit

I have nothing to do with the glasses or the outfit. Zack, if you are older and reading this, I was outnumbered by the women. I told them not to dress you this way, but they did it anyway. ;(

Here Comes Number 2!

This was not planned and came as another surprise :)

I've got to figure out what keeps causing this!