No snowfall today but we’ll get rain later tonight instead and it will continue all day tomorrow and it will be mixed with a lot of snow as well, but according to the weather sites and the tv forecast it’ll stay above 0C (32F) so I guess it’ll all melt away quickly, at least I hope so. This is a cold hole so one never knows 🙂
We walked the same way today but in the opposite direction, Yesterday I noticed how much of those small fields were worked on by wild hogs and they had been busy last night as well. I do hope they’ll keep their distance because meeting wild hogs in the garden the first thing in the morning is not on my top ten things to do 🙂 🙂 🙂 I think however it will be easier for them to walk in to my neighbours garden since they only have a thin hedge beside the electric fence that goes around the entire pasture and that fence hasn’t stopped them so far.
Writing about electric fences, today Malcolm learned how it feels to get stung by one and unlike all other dogs he didn’t blame me for it 🙂 🙂 He did keep his distance to the fence after that though 🙂 I was later thinking of the hogs when I was frying some pork for dinner, when I did that I came to think of my mother. She has never been a good cook, quite the contrary and that’s why I learned to make my own food already as eleven years old. She’s amazing making sauces and for some reason she has always been good at making mashed turnips and pork knuckle, well it is her favourite food 🙂 🙂 🙂 Her meatballs however were either hard as a bullet and used like one a moose wouldn’t stand a chance, or they could just disintegrate in to a powder 🙂 🙂 🙂
Anyhow she became a bit more interested later in life. She and her then fiancé were quite often out fishing and always caught a lot of Cottidae, a small and rather ugly little fish but that tastes really good, so she learned how to fry that. They also were out picking mushrooms in autumn and always found a lot of Puffballs, they are edible and quite nice as small and she learned how to like those too. One day I asked her what the fish tasted like and she said: It’s the oddest thing but it tastes like bacon. I asked her if that really was true and she said it was. Well why not but then I asked her if she liked the puffballs as well and yes she did, oddly enough those tasted like bacon as well. I eat that mushroom a lot and they sure doesn’t taste like bacon 🙂 🙂
My mother belongs to the old kind that if You fry something and there’s fat still in the frying pan she saves it for next time 🙂 Well I think You’ve guessed it, they tended to eat a lot of bacon so every time they fried something they did so in bacon grease 🙂 🙂 🙂 everything from broccoli to any kind of fish tasted like bacon 🙂 🙂 🙂
It is time for that last cup of tea for the day, I might have a banana too but I’m really not hungry after my dinner. It will at least stay above 0C (32F) the coming week but oh how I long for spring!
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
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