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I used a mix of apple and hickory. I thought it would be a good combo of sweet and smoky flavors. I also have some cherry but chose to hold off on the cherry for now. Next time, we'll see? It was good for the snack sticks, I haven't sliced into the pastrami yet.

Ok I got started on some venison sausage. I cubed up my last deer and froze it in 3-4 lb pkgs. Bought a 9lb pork butt and boned it out, froze it in 2-3 lb pkgs. I figured it would be a good mix of venison to pork? I ground up 2 pkgs of venison and 2 of pork mixing it as I ground it. The meat was still pretty frozen but I wanted it real cold. Worked great, and looks like a good mix. I made half into pepper sticks with cheddar cheese. And the rest breakfast sausage. I used some for a breakfast pizza, some bulk, and fried up the rest as patties for quick breakfast Sammies. Got the sticks in my smoker with a roast for pastrami. I love trying this stuff. Can't wait for the Academy "Sausage Fest"!!

So sorry Brian. Cherish the time you had together until you meet again. She is in a better place now. God Bless you and your family. Stay strong my friend.

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Happy Birthday @Cabin Fever I hope you have a great day!

I'm sure Jan 1 is the default setting for your birthday if you don't actually put in the proper date? But why are so many of todays b-day 51 years old? And the prize goes to @nyslowhand 121 years old!

Happy New year one and all! I send this now as I won't be awake at 11:59 tonight!!

Happy Birthday @cynthiafu! Hope you have a great day! Cheers!

Is there any truth to the rumor that the Academy is going to have a sausage making GTG? I see blueberry breakfast, jalapeno cheddar, and various Italian sausage being made and shared. And maybe, just maybe a few brews consumed?

Happy belated Birthday Jay! Hope you had a great day!

Jeremy it's the humidity level. AS Wolc said with a wood stove it's very dry and you need to run a humidifier. We have a little cool mist humidifier running next to our wood stove and it helps alot. I don't always run it but my wife complains when the house gets too dry and she gets those sinus pains.

Sorry for your loss.

I hear Tim Allen grunting as I read this!! Very nice! I wish I knew what to do with 1/2 of what you have there!

Happy Birthday Wooly! I hope you have a great day!

Awesume! I hope she is doing well, Merry Christmas and a healthier New Year!

Merry Christmas everyone!! May 2021 be a much better year and not such a sh!t show!

Merry Christmas everyone!!

Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday Wolc!!

Christmas is going to be just like Thanksgiving here, just me and the wifey. So dinner will probably be what ever she feels like making or having. Maybe some leftover C&P w/O from Bocci's ?

I've been tracking a pkg I sent to my son and DIL and it wasn't scanned for over a week in the Syracuse usps facility! I was starting to worry as it is a Christmas gift, today I checked it and it scheduled for delivery!! WooHoo! Just in time. I bought it on line on 12-1, said it would be delivered by 12-17, so 1 week late really isn't to bad?

I'm going to hockey this morning, maybe a last 2 hours sit locally tonight? The freezer is full but why not!

Done and Done!!

No internet all weekend, so I'm just getting caught up. Sorry I missed the hunt at Greg's but with all this Covid crap I didn't want to chance it. So I hunted Angelica with a friend just 2 of us doing small 2 man drives. Saw a nice sized doe bedded so I put a stalk on, as I was trying to get close I see her standing and looking right at me. So I put the scope on her and fire. Well somehow she magically transformed into a bb! Sorry Wolc but the land oysters stayed in the gut pile!

I just did the same thing and this is close but... https://www.birds-of-north-america.net/Greater_White-fronted_Goose.html

I learned to drive a stick at 15 working, it was an old jeep with a super stiff clutch! I thought for sure when I let out the clutch that thing was going to flip! It looks like most of us here are old enough to have driven several cars/trucks with standard trans. I taught my wife to drive a stick(more ways than one) and to this day she hates stop signs on a hill! Especially on her motorcycle! The real test was when my son was stationed in England and we visited. I rented a car to go sight seeing and it was a stick shift. I had to shift with my left hand! Gas and clutch were in the same positions but you had to drive on the wrong side of the road! Every time i went to make a turn, I turned on the windshield wipers! Lol