Out Foxxxed

This week we had to deal with both of us being sick. Lawman came down with a cold early in the week, and by weekend, Cupcake started with symptoms. We guess it's just our turn. The week started off with a bang. Literally.
Lawman has tinkered around with different baits, boiling traps in wax, scents and lures. Nothing seemed to work on a sly fox. Lawman broke down and purchased two trail cameras with video capability, and began testing. Was it the traps that sent the fox away? Did they smell a rat when he baited the traps with store bought stuff?
This particular scent brought in two foxxxes one night, and as you can see in the video, they really got in to it.

The second video showed both foxxxes fiddling around the scent at the same time.

So armed with this new information, traps were set and baited.

After we caught the first fox, Lawman figured with fox #2 seeing the traps, he would never catch the second one. But being hard headed and having plenty of free time, he endeavored to persevere (Outlaw Josie Wales reference for non nurds).
Lawman remembered having a conversation with an at heart mountain man on the PD probably fifteen years ago about how to bait a trap for coyote ( shout out to Dennis Freeburger ) and because it's a family-ish setting, we won't share his baiting tip. But, Lawman used it with great results.

Lawman can hear one particular voice saying "It's the same fox, he just moved it for the picture" (We're looking at you, Rex Snider) so....

We're keeping them in the freezer until trapping season is over, then we plan on selling the skins to pay for this years new chicken purchase. Since it's the predators that caused our loss in the first place, let them pay for the new chicks.
We still managed to do a couple of small projects this week and did a little cooking. We made a new batch of laundry detergent.

We made a fresh batch of pizza sauce and canned it. We started off with our garden tomatoes that we canned this summer.

Added some herbs from Cupcake's herb garden and slow cooked it down all day. When it got to be the right consistency, we canned it.

Five pints will make ten pizzas, that should hold us for a month or two?
We did our regular cooking routine this week, but a couple of standouts were cloud bread.

And mashed potato pancakes. We love having these with Sunday breakfast.

We ended the week with wings, in hopes the sauce will flush this bug out of our systems.
K&K