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I have an assortment of photos for you today! They were all taken on Sunday, when I was trying to relax in observance of my birthday.

Remember that rabbit I had in my freezer last month? You'll notice in one of the pictures that it has become sausage. It was my first real time to use the meat grinder I got for Christmas, and it turned out very well. I was a bit squeamish about the idea of taking kitchen shears and a chef's knife to a young, innocent rabbit, but one glass of Scotch later, it really wasn't too bad. The sausage is mostly rabbit but also contains about a quarter of a ribeye steak and some venison sausage seasoning. Katy and I ate some of the sausage last night, and it was quite wonderful.

The three other pictures you see are my kitchen after playing with the raw image settings (tint, exposure, shadows, etc.) for my camera, Dorian on my door mat, and the view out my front door when it got particularly blustery. If the green kitchen photo were not so dark, you would be able to see rabbit blood and guts and parts and bits on one of my cutting boards.

Alas, the snow is pretty much gone for the next few days, and the weather has deferred to clear and sunny skies. Hopefully, a sizable portion of the snow will stick around until the weather starts back up again. The next snowfall is due between Thursday and Saturday. The snow photos in this post, by the way, are here by request from my mom, who, living in Houston, hasn't seen a whole lot of the white stuff this year.

I guess I should go read some stuff for the quiz I'm having at 10:30 before I get my bagel and coffee and then head over to the university. Enjoy the photos!