With the boys at home a lot more right now, they’ve been smashing on the food reserves pretty hard! Haha! With their love for bacon I figured we should give it a shot. I used the maple recipe Jim had posted a while back. We gave it a 7 day cure, then put the smoke to it this morning. I used half apple, half hickory to smoke it. Pretty sure I’m going to Costco tomorrow to pick up another pork belly after the reaction to round one. Damn good stuff!





Tonight my youngest wanted to try his hand at making homemade pasta. Of course I had to oblige and now he’s hooked on the good stuff. Good day off with the family!

Awesome Dad.

Very nice...

We did homemade root beer, steamed crabs when my boys were that age... anything to get them doing something involving their brain.

Bacon looks beautiful

Good Goin'! My mother made homemade egg noodles.

Nice work man. No comparison between homemade/store noodles

Nice work on the bacon and the noodles. Both look great.

+1 And having the boy help.

Nice!

My first job was cracking eggs for a fresh pasta business that some neighbors owned. Made $3.35 an hour cracking around 1-200 dozen eggs a shift! The pasta was outstanding. All different kinds, shapes, flavors, stuffed, etc.....

We must be pretty close in age mooner, I remember buckin haybales for minimum wage, which was $3.35... 😂😂

$3.25 an hour here working at a campground being a camp bitch boy! The job had its perks though. I tried hanging around the pool as much as I could when the girls went for a swim!

great pictures, and family time

Wow, my farm wage was $2.5/hr in the mid eighties, and they withheld social security.
Another paid me $20/day, from 7-5. Then they raised it to $25.

Loved farming would still be doing it except for,
well, the pay. Logging was better, but still starvation.

Nice!

Very nice peetarm!

Don’t let school get in the way of their education!!

My first job was picking cabbage and squash for $1.45 an hour.

Very cool. Looks like you have all the gear.

+ 1 !!

Well done boys !

All looks great

Right there in those pictures, those eyes, those smiles, I can see the love, and the sense of true family, a rarity in this world these days. Congratulations Dad, you are one of the Good Ones !

Miss Lynn