Christmas Early

We had an early Christmas this week when our pal "Uncle Tony" stopped by and dropped off a whole deer ham for us. He had perfect timing because we needed an offering to Thor and now we had a great one. We seasoned it up and smoked it.

The other off the usual path we had for dinner this week was some canned goodies. We've had on and off snow this week, and nothing is better on a cold snowy night than fresh from the vine tomato soup with grilled cheese sandwiches in a cast iron skillet.

A couple projects we tinkered around with this week, we made another batch of laundry detergent, because one of us has a serious problem.

And Lawman took his new nail gun to the under construction top bar bee hive.

Sides of the hive, with one observation window

Box frame to hold it all together

Lawman learned that his finishing nails were too small to hold it all together, so larger nails will be the order of the day.
We did a lot of baking this week. We started off with a batch of caramel cookies for dessert.

Then a fresh batch of boiled custard.

Over the weekend we baked. A lot.
We made a total of six fruit cakes, three batches of cookies and another round of sausage balls. We did "grown up" sausage balls this go around, lots of onions and seasoning.

Our first from scratch molasses cookies

Double batch of chocolate chip cookies

And we had to make a couple of cheese balls

We make two cheese balls every year, one for snacking then one for company. It helps cool off the sting of the wing sauce too. Because we always end the week with wings.
K&K