Exactly, Sharon! Fond memories of childhood and Christmases past. Now if I just had a roll of Grandpa's smoked pork sausage too. Mother and the aunts, and Grandmother too, of course, sewed the sausage sacks form muslin weeks before the hogs were killed. It was said that Grandpa knew it was time to slaughter the hogs when he threw a bucket of water into the sky and it turned to ice on the way down. The men and womenfolk worked from early, early morning to late, late night, and the women's hands grew red from the red pepper mixed with the ground pork to make sausages.

DougR