Darkness and Vernacular Salami

The shortest days approach. Organize your resources.

Woke up to the first snow this morning, with two hogs hung on gambrels out in a breezy tin-sided shed, the rest of our pigs very much alive and snoring in a hay-lined hut down on the blanketed prairie. The cows came in as well, clopping through the wet cover to paw at the snow, accessing the still-verdant grass in favor of hay, and while the thick stuf…