Ladybug boots

Work was really, really slow today. When I got there the guys were making sausages, and put me to work in the middle of the production line, where I'd help pull the long meat-string out from the pump so that it didn't get all tangled and twisted, and then I'd spin the sausages and dump the string of finished sausages into a big bin. It's neat 'cause the only place you see entire strings of sausages is in cartoons, when a dog is running off with them - or at least, that's the only place I've ever seen them. Aside from work.
It's fun: you have to spin the sausages so they're not too loose, the right size, etc, but if you spin them too much they'll blow out and you'll have a wrecked sausage and meat on your pants. Also you can poke air bubbles with the spikey end of a sausage knife.

ANYWAY. Once we'd finished the sausages, and cleaned out the meat grinder (dump soy protein powder, 40 something eggs, four bottles of wine, and some 100 pounds of pork and run it through a couple times, your meat grinder gets STICKY)... there was nothing to do. At all.

We stood around for most of the day, cleaning stuff where we could, but it was slower than molasses running down a snowman's face in outer space.

There WAS a cute little girl with the best outfit ever, pictured below:



Pink and purple striped shirt, pastel polka dotted pants, and ladybug boots.