Good Day "35"

Richard is Santa Claus!.....let's hope its an good night...first true storm of the season is now incoming...could hardly see the show tonight for the interuptions of the transmission of it at times..."Dancing with the Stars" . They are saying to stay tuned to the news tonight...appparently large trees came down somewhere in the Metro area. My big tees are swaying in the wind also, but so far staying put in place. The show was an difficult one... how does one get any better when your already an "All-star" rating? It reminds me of some of the kids these days trying to go to college on grants where they are picked through competition to each other. As they say, they were all class presidents, honor roll students, into an bit of everything in school and leadership...so how does one pick amoung the "cream of the crop". It's not easy. We are supposedly having some 2 to 3 inches of rain up in the Cascade Mts...and then by this Sunday the freezing level drops to 3,500 feet....and snow showers of 1 to 3 inches of snowfall. Tonight I built this year's first fire in the fireplace for the season. 14 lightening strikes along with this weather front in the state. tried to walk twice today but did an lousy job of it.I wish I had the money to join an gym as it's not to easy to get the exercise with this kind of weather. I did set up my stationary bike downstairs though last weekend...as I know my days are numbered for going outside an walking as I was doing. This makes going into week three that my weight has stayed the same. Still pretty much on the diet and was still doing the morning 50 mins of walking...but not much changing so far. The expended effort with no results is usually what stops my dieting eventually and I'd like to lose another 20 pounds and then hold it over winter. Don't know if I can or not though. The odds I am fighting with are not the greatest....give me your  "thoughts" to succeed... and see if that helps me some. Perhaps an bad spiritual attachment came my way sometime ago that needs cleared out. At any rate...good night I think, though my ears are ringing loudly tonight and still been hearing the music and like an muffled down radio playing in the background.  First I hear the song "Born Free" and then I hear church music and it's followed by "Old Lang Sang" as if it was New Year's Eve. Started in Saturday evening. Talk to you all later on! 

Shirley the Hams were literally covered in Salt and stored, but for how long, and the next process?

No doubt it's on the net somewhere, but I know a POE man who might be able to answer this question, so what say you James?

And by the way, I still have 'that' photograph if you'll let me post it for POE members, I know they would love to see it.

Remember the discussion about the 'lady' in the middle! LOL

Hi Syd, what about a full english breakfast, Bacon ,Eggs, , tomatoes, mushroom, sausages,and fried  bread,?        Give me a bowl of porridge anyday!!!

or both !! (depending on one's mood ,of course!!)

Good Day Syd, James, Peggy,all ,,and of course,, Head Master Ron Sir !!!

We use to go "clubbing' with our friends at the Elks Lodge and close the lodge.. and then go out to breakfast in the wee hours of the morning and go home to sleep half an day...big breakfast...good ones also. Hash browns and eggs, and sauage and toast with jelly and lots of coffee...and juice. Now it's an bowl of cerela that at times reminds me of wet cardboard....but....I'm into an size smalerl jeans this morning and they fit comfortably and not tightly. If I could do this one more size smaller I have an whole rack of new clothes awaiting for me....price tags still hanging on many of them. .

James, our family is so large that an "gift" of some kind of meat for Christmas is not at all unheard of, my dad's sister use to get an smoked salmon...cured.. sent to her every year from my other dad's  sistert in Washington state and she loved it. I use to make up 17 boxes of cookies, jellies, and min-loaves of breakfast breads for giving away myself every year when the kids were littlier. As lorraine said when we got together this summer..."i'm sure glad we took the time to have our "get togethers" when th ekids were growing up and were still little. Seems like everyone is scattered out with their own families now. But here is what this books says about the hams..of the south...the general process of peanut-feeding the hogs, pepper-coating, and hickory smoking is applied through out the sstate to help retain it's reputation for it's hams. The learned this process years ago from the Chinese apparenlty via the ships captains that worked for the Merchant Ships....who had learne it from several thousands of gnerations of curing their meat for ship travel and exploration.  Virginnia Hams are razlorbacks, while rival Kentucky Hams were Hampshire Hogs..whom are grain fed hogs. They were generally salt cured and rubbed with an molasses-pepper cure with then being smoked several time using hard woods. I'm thinking it's probably this last idea that was then dipped in an wax preservative. Tennessee and North Carolina used the Wild boars brought over from the Germans, which they say has been bred to be an sweet and tangy meat known only to the mountain people of the region. Very few people here in Oregon do not know that even venison thatwas prepared in the early days was done so with an huckleberry gravy before serving it...just as true Pemmican was made with choke cherries...mixed with jerky pounded into dry powder, suet and the choke cherries and reformed. If you ever see an photgraphed picture of an real wagon..that travled the Oregon trail...you'll see toward the rear of it an cheese cloth or leather pouch bundle hanging off it..this was corn meal mush made intp polenta..soaked in lard and it always hung off the south side of the wagon. Where it "baked" itself all day long in the sun. At night this was taken down and sliced an fried and jams added to it.... for breakfast, or dowsed with maple sugar syrup and eated with campfire beans. They had little time to take out to bake bread... traveling.  So if you see the warrior Indians attacking from the rear of the wagons, it wasn't half as much to tomahawk everyone to death as it was to cut off the food hanging in pouches along the back of the wagon. It made for an nice meal with their jerky...as they traveled over the prairie..hunting. I guess I best get going for today...as again..this is getting lengthy.