Making Sausage

Sausage starts with a pig.

I knew that, but learned it experientially at 8. My neighbors across the street were J.B. and Marie Howard. Marie was a distant cousin on my dad's side - the whole "3rd cousin twice removed" or something like that... never understood, just knew she was related.

I liked J.B. and Marie.

Every year, J.B. would butcher 1 pig for sa…