Monday, July 05, 2004
Story of the pig
On saturday Chico Munoz and Ariel came to help me out, and left at 4pm, they went back to the house to get their horses, and were walked down the hill by Francisco (Fran) and Letvia. During this short amount of time, the pig that was tied up managed to trip and strangle itself. Fran saw it and ran and tried to cut it free but it was dead. And he was so upset , and they were all upset because they had bought that pig for 300cordova 15 days ago to fatten up for december because two of the kids were graduating from secondario (high school) and they normally have a big celebration. Isabel is quite proud of her kids because almost all have been educated and quite a few have graduted secondario and two have started university.
So yesterday when I got back they were all in a panic and had to clean, chop and smoke the pig superfast so they could sell the meat the next day. It was quite pleasant.
In all, the managed to sell the meat for 200c, so the loss was not too great, but still, 100c is about 8 dollars,which is a lot when you dont have very much. And more than anything, it was about the celebration, but they are probably going to buy another pig, but much smaller.
So yesterday when I got back they were all in a panic and had to clean, chop and smoke the pig superfast so they could sell the meat the next day. It was quite pleasant.
In all, the managed to sell the meat for 200c, so the loss was not too great, but still, 100c is about 8 dollars,which is a lot when you dont have very much. And more than anything, it was about the celebration, but they are probably going to buy another pig, but much smaller.
