I need some gift for Christmas.

Thanks

Everywhere I look they're about $35~45

Sorry, but I have to ask! 

Zed - poncho liners

Even Hoardie knows what one is.

 a woobie!

("Without it you woobie cold")

Same idea but a much lighter filling.

Just a guess but I'm thinking with my calibrated Mk1* arm about 1/2 a Lb?

Yes, they did … I had a but pack that I used in the field , had my strength ng hammock and my poncho liner with my poncho. 4 tent spikes , bottle of garlic tabs , baby powder, and some pogie bait ! After I got stationed stateside in a RDU . All i needed was that most of the time … 

Ya had ta go there dintcha?

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There was a old cartoon strip. Called Pogo, and pogo was a possom.

Logic bait was use to catch pogo.

Monkeys pass through from time to time.

Live off the land.

In B.C. we called it 'pokey'.

Funny story about pogey, back in the day when I was young and immature there was no higher aspiration than to go on pogey for the Winter and become a ski bum at Whistler.  There was a group of about 10 of us that rented a cabin, split the costs and those of us that weren't Lifties went on pogey for the season.  We even went so far as to buy matching T shirts that had UIC SKI TEAM (Unemployment Insurance Commission) emblazoned on them.  I only did that for one Winter at Whistler as I soon got my sh!t together and went to college but I heard it eventually caught up to those who did it year after year, finally making the local news and causing a scandal over government waste and abuses of the system.

Bill it to Hoadie!

Yeah, we were blessed with great skiing in and around Vancouver:  Grouse mtn, Cypress Bowl, Mt. Seymour, Whistler, Manning park, Big White in Kelowna, and Mt. Baker in Washington state to name a few.   I made it as far south as Flagstaff, AZ one winter.  I still might try skiing one last time if I can find a nice bunny hill somewhere.  Head and Kneissel were my favourite skis.

Oh I have been so busy lately that I have not checked in on the forum…

Yes, I see it’s been answered as to the meaning, yes just any type of sweet treat you could bring to the field…. 

I never knew the origin of it at the time, but when I was stationed in Germany, I was always with the first sergeant when out in the field.  He always asked what kind of pogie bait I had brought to the field, or he would tell me that we were going to detour into the closest town and get some pogie bait !!!

I took my PTO from November 25th to December 30th but I’m not going to be back to work or available for them till January 5th since I’m getting 2 days of administrative since I had go back to the Boomvang to check hot alignment, and then didn’t get to do it !!! 

I now have a sewer tank for my brew house!!! No more relieving ourselves outside… and Mrs. Joyce won’t have to buy her them big binoculars!!!! 

I also got my culvert put in behind my cypress pond, pulled the floating vegetation out my pond that had willow trees growing on it … pulled a few mounds of dirt also !!!

Got some more of my firewood split. 

Now to build a mud room on the back porch for the dogs , and possibly one on the front porch if all goes well … 

But this week I got the youngest granddaughter when my wife is working, daughter in law is going in for female surgery… 

Also gotta get that young bull to the butcher !!! And that thing is crazy and spooky!!!

Was supposed to bring the Hereford! But the Lisa did a pregnancy test and found out that she is pregnant! So she gets a reprieve this time … but next time !!! She won’t be so lucky !!!

I pay the Vet $40-60 USD do it. She does not mind.

In North Carolina if you have a bull you have to pay added insurance for it.

Added insurance

Higher animal tax

Food costs

Have to have stronger fences.

Can not have a bull and mule in the same pasture

Not worth the cost for the bull.

You are correct Hoadie but farm animals have a metal ear tag. This is linked to the owner.

Unless you eat it you are out of luck.

The ear tag is linked to the animal life history, family tree.

I do not know how dummy ear tags work.

When I lived in Virginia with my Grandparents we had twelve plus sheep. Keep three lambs and the other lambs plus three old sheep where freezer bait.

Cube it to half inch cubes,

Cook it in a pressure cooker,

Add, onions, carrots, potatoes, beef stock, and black pepper,

Server it over brown bread.

Back in the cottage in Wales we got stuck by a blizzard, so it was whatever we had we cooked & ate. Bearing in mind we're raiding a community pantry here so we got a lot of stuff that probably didn't go together.

Being me, I got a couple of big post & made rice in one for bulk.

The other one was home to my "Krakatoa Curry"!

I learned a long time ago if you mix enough stuff that shouldn't mix, add lots of spices & boil the snot out of it you usually end up with something edible that goes over rice!

So here I am, doing a good impression of one of Macbeth's 3 witches, over these big, black iron cauldrosn hanging on the cast iron hook by the open fire.

Then someone hands me a largish can of Corned Mutton!

I'd never seen such a thing before & still haven't since!

No matter we cut it up into bite-sized pieces & flung it in with everything else!

To this day I still have no idea what corned mutton is, or tastes like.

The curry powder, garlic powder, onion powder, red & black pepper & several others spices & a broth of multiple stock cubes & a big packet of dehydrated minestrone soup hid whatever it was or tasted like.

The after effects were how it got named.

Ok I'm in

Christmas dinner this year a bit of  a German flair, Pork Roast, Oven brown Potatoes and red cabbage.

Man, I love me some rotkohl!

Yes it does.

The gaminess comes from the fat mainly.

Trim the fat & try them cooked til just done a little pink left in the middle.

Look up the recipes on line for mint sauces!

Mostly vinegar, sugar, water, & finely-chopped mint made freshly.

I have "zombie mint" in my garden. I've killed it several time & it keeps coming back!

Strip the leaves from the stems & put them in a open Ziploc on the freezer.

When dried totally, store them in an old cleaned spice bottle for later use. Crumble or fine chop then just make your preferred brine & soak overnight!

It will kill any last gaminess & make the meat less "fatty" tasting.

He might know a local source or can send you some.

In the 70's I saw lamb stew in the British military stores, PX.

Lamb stew is a staple.

Lamb is nowhere near as gamey as Mutton.

Thanks for the ginger marinade I've not heard that before.

Twenty minutes a pound with the crock pot on high.

Left overs make great soup.

30 minutes a pound for the breast meat.

Bathroom was busted the whole flight.

Try it some time.

I've hunted a lot and always eat what I shoot.....except for the one Mountain Goat I shot.  I tried marinating it, frying it, roasting it, grilling it, saucing it....couldn't stand the flavour!

Deer

Wild pig

Wild turkeys

A few Canadian goose when no one see me.

Goose it hardest to cook.

Hoadie, I think you where born hungry. 

I never know you where a Air Cadet. If you where in the States I would sign you up for Space Force. Then you would be a Space Cadet!

Stonewell Jackson  was a teacher there.

Sorry about that.

For goat. Marinate it in buttermilk overnight in the fridge.

Makes a world of difference!

A like from serving in the sand box.

No goat for me.

I will go for a slow roasted pork loin. At 275 for twenty minutes a pound with salt a few spices.

Happy New Year!

Ed

We also don't like to mention General Robert E. Lee attended West Point.

He was a cousin of Robert.

People in family called him Rob.