Why buy the cow?

We got a call from my in-laws last week telling us that our quarter of a cow would be arriving at our house sometime after their trip to Pennsylvania the first week of June. WHAT? Not something that we were expecting, but lovely anyway.....except that we have no where to put a quarter of a cow. Uh-oh.
Back story: we had been looking into buying a quarter or half a cow a few months ago because it's much cheaper to buy in bulk from a farmer than it is to buy beef in the store, and when you buy directly from the farm, the cows are free range, organic, hormone free and generally taste better. Someone recently called it hippie beef. They cut to specifics usually and vacuum seal the meat so it can last for up to 2 years. Well, Dan's dad said that his brother in PA knew of a place to buy a cow and we could put an order in and they could pick it up while in PA in June and bring it back. We weren't in a place to move forward yet and kinda left this up in the air......until last week that is lol.
So, we have approx. 200 pounds of beef coming to our house in June and up until today we had nowhere to put it. I have been searching craigslist all week for a large enough well priced enough chest freezer and finally found a good prospect. We drove out there today and inspected it and bought it. It's a decent size and it only cost $100 and is commercial grade. I feel so much better about all this beef coming knowing that it isn't going to rot on our kitchen floor. Anyone wanna come over for some grilling in June?


Anyone interested in a frozen Maddie?


Dan cleaning out the inside of the chest freezer....Maddie helping.