Turkey killin' time

Today I was feeling much better and decided to go to work. All in all, it went fairly well. We had the Seeds program today and I was conducting some simple games in the Education barn. The exciting/interesting part of the day was the turkey processing which myself and several other volunteers undertook. We were given a quick lesson on how to take a turkey from livin' to eaten', and then were left alone to get to it. I didn't have the courage the slit a turkey's neck myself, but I did do everything else, from degutting to gland removing to feather yanking. Two things about the entire affair were quite shocking; one, the incredible temperature of the turkey's core...it was hot, uncomfortably hot, and two, the deep rich red shade of the animal's blood. I mean wow. It's so red and real that it's surreal, so intense and in your face that it's like a cartoon. It was a very trippy experience, especially while half loopy with infection and half dizzy from a full day's work. I'm learning so much here.