No we did not can deer meat with bacon all in the same jar! I knew from my title that some of you might think that. There was no actual deer meat involved. Only bacon. If you have been over to my better half's page lately (Seniors Mess) you would see the blog post he did on our recent bacon canning venture. The next morning we opened a jar up, fried it with some eggs and it was quite tasty.
I am only writing about it, because I posted it to facebook. I was a little surprised at how many comments I got in support of this prepping venture, one of my like minded gun toting friends even shared it on her facebook page, and tagged a couple of her other friends in it..
But as with everything there is always that ONE person that can't understand why we do these things... In this case she is a friend of my moms, and we have known her for well over 40 years.
She simply asked " But Whyyyyyy"????? just like that.
I sweetly replied back to her that in the event of long time power outages whether it is man made, or natural, my family would like to be able to have some nice crispy bacon and not have it all go bad in the freezer. She has yet to respond...
Now the deer part of my title comes in... hunting season is over and the deer seem to sense this as they have been coming out more frequently. So, we set up the trail camera, and baited parts of the garden with a water trough, and corn. It took a few nights but the herd found its way here. This morning I was taking the dogs out and Libby caught site and chased about three of them from the garden. later I checked the trail camera. In other pics off to the right you can see the legs of another doe. I wonder if there is a big buck hanging out with them...
We had a our big ice and snow storm a couple of weeks ago now, and as I guessed it fizzled in my area. Ended up being more ice then anything. But it made for some great pics. I took this one going down the road, it has gotten quite a few compliments:
The thermometer was tilted the other way now, we have been seeing record highs and I wonder if winter has remembered we are still here. Sucks wearing shorts in the middle of January. But, I will take it as the heating bill has been quite low.
Hope you all have a wonder day....and smile on Friday we get to wave goodbye to BO.. : )
-JUGM
