The moose adventures are epic. I read once that they actually had pretty good success at training them to be pack animals for artillery units, but that when they came near the site of an actual battle, there was no keeping the moose from running away. :D There's a really interesting blog post about the whole thing that you can read that tells you the history of that program and how they ended up with dairy moose. It's really a spectacularly bad idea. :D

So I must know... what IS your mother's sausage-cooking method?

I really want to learn a lot of home-maintenance stuff... the scheduling didn't work out this year because both the work days and my horsemanship lessons were on Saturday afternoons, but next summer I'm hoping that I'll be able to put in some time with our local Habitat for Humanity.