- Started boiling 5 gallons of maple sap from our back yard trees to make syrup;
- Blended and pressed my own tobacco mixture from whole leaf, mostly leaf that I grew myself (it’s a VA/Per bend);
- Used boiling water to bend a piece of wood into a curve to finish restoring an old piece of furniture.
I have no idea why my darling wife pointed out the 10# pork belly at Costco and asked if I wanted to start making my own bacon too. She should know by now that if I wanted to make my own bacon, I’d raise a pig…