Multitasking on Labor Day

Ever wonder how one acquires a bear headdress?

being a damn nuisance is how

it’s been 4 days that bear been messin around Armydog’s place. Dog went out there, fired off a warning shot in a safe direction, the bear just looked at him. It’s that time of years, bears are getting ready for thier long winter’s sleep. Time to fatten up. It’s only about a 100 pounder

mama bear in mama bear lingo, ” get your ass out, time to learn of the world”.

10 hour smoke at 135 using applewood

reason your bacon and hams are pink in color Prague salt is used aka 1# salt
I use maple cure and Kosher started with 11 pounds, ended up with 9.75 pounds

leaving a smoker unattended for 11 hours knowing full well, Nothing will happen except come back to BACON! Some back story only because my cousin called last week. I was helping him move some stuff in his business basement, hea man, what’s up with this Univex? ” it’s junk, stopped working, take it, get it out of here” Took it home, dissasembled it. a corroded wire, fixed that, applied some food grade grease, works likes a charm. They sell for well over a grand, some models 2g. I’ll slice up the bacon tonight. He calls me up, hea man ” what you want” “My grand daughter”, what about her” “Birthday soon make her something”, like what? ” hell I don’t know” what she like do to do? ” well she like to draw”

Not free cousin, stuff is getting expensive but I’ll work on something click, just like that, the bastard hung up me.

Making her a sketchbook, 9×12 should be plenty big enough, LOTR map

Sun dried to help it looked aged

much work yet to be done

now, an hour’s drive