Okay, we’ve got a taker folks! What’s your address and do you prefer UPS or the Post Office? 
I’m dyin’ to know what hubby said when he came home and had to deal with half dried, half charred jerky? With any luck he’s the sort who will shrug and say ‘I’ll try again over the weekend’.
You were VERY good for trying to help.
Somehow the image of sheep armed with chainsaws is strangely discomforting … 
djm
When he got home I told him about what an uproar it had been and how I couldn’t imagine how it worked on the grill for him and how it stuck so bad and he just goes out and looks at it and comes back and tells me IT LOOKS JUST FINE!!! OF COURSE!!! Apparently this is par for the course 
. I guess since I usually stay upstairs when he is making it I don’t see all the mess and hear all the scraping sounds and see the racks with half a turkey stuck hopelessly to them or something. I did tell him I didn’t think I could be in charge of the jerky again though!
Especially a visually handicapped one.
By not expressing interest in his activities, over time you have missed out on valuable bonding opportunities.
You’re correct . . . you distance yourself so that you do not share in his joys and triumphs.
How he must feel to be deprived of your affections in this way.
. . . shakes head sadly and wanders off to ruminate on this sad and upsetting phenomenon . . .
Jerk… sheep… chainsaws… ??
I think this topic has gone too far. Hopefully one of the moderators will wish it into the cornfields.
Cynth…I’m glad the jerky came out well, but I need to point out to you in crystal clear detail, that if you didn’t know what a mess it was and the sticking and all that…
then you never had to clean up after his jerky exploits!
You have a real gem there! He’s a keeper!
Tyg
I will… maybe… once I stop laughing my arse off.
Cud you please ruminate someplace we can’t see you? (Effin’ regurgitatin’ ruminants…)
The ability to eat now and chew later evolved as a defense mechanism, and clearly it is a successful one. It would be an error to overlook all the positives that sheep provide, like wool, lanolin, mutton, dust bunnies, methane … um … so picking on a little personal habit like spew spelunking seems a bit excessive to me. 
djm
No, no. Been there before and almost done that.
A few years back Loren started a thread on jerky tech talk to, well, take the micky out of the whistle tech talk threads that were reaching plague proportions at the time. So I found out what jerky was then. Then I noticed some in my local 7-11 or some such store. I asked the assistant about it and got told I was on my own—nobody else bought the stuff. I got some home and forgot about it. A couple of days later I got it out and just as I was about to open it I noticed it was way past the use-by date. I’d long since lost the receipt so it went straight into the bin.
One day I might get to try it.
I can’t tell if this is a double-entendre, but it does sound vaguely dirty…
I would treasure the opportunity to stand in snow to jerk his turkey.
That’s a double entendre.
So what’s the other reading then, Martin?
…Tarot.
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Now, why and who wants sheep placentas??? Yikes.
I thought you made that up, till I scrolled to the top of the page and found out otherwise. Woe is me.
I think I am right in saying that our bond is better if I stay out of the kitchen when he is cooking.
Yes, he does clean up (to the best of his ability ). He is a good guy. I showed him this thread and read him the responses last night. He thought it was very funny.
I am having to tend the jerky again today. I told him I couldn’t stand to do it again and he looked a little disappointed. He has to go out of town and there is a problem with getting it done in time to send for presents. So sigh I told him okay, and then analyzed thoroughly all the problems from yesterday—so he’s doing it my way, except I’m doing it . DANG! Anyway, we’re doing it in the oven where the temperature is more even, I am turning it every hour and it has not stuck nearly as badly as yesterday, and I don’t have to go out in 23F windy weather. It is all going much better. I think Jerry’s prediction is coming true—I am becoming a jerky maker. Oh Lord!
It is way too cold out there for anyone to be running around jerking turkeys off their feet or worrying about sheep wielding chain saws or whatever you guys are talking about.
I wouldn’t hassle Lamby
too much though. 
I googled it and lamb placenta is apparently taken in capsules and thought to contain good nutrients for the skin. I didn’t read very thoroughly, it is a health food thing I think. Maybe if we manufactured those capsules we would be looking for a deal on placentas? I don’t really know.http://www.ihealthtree.com/beautqueensw.html