DAC - Hillbilly Food

[00:00:40] Out There in Internet Radio Land, this is Dave Jones, the NBC guy. And I thought I'd play that ode to Jed Clampett because, holy cow, the intrepid commander was eating him some rat coon. Yes. I had to joke in the back channel that I was poor growing up in the hills in Pennsylvania.

[00:01:06] And I mean some of the stuff on the Beverly Hillbillies wasn't funny to us, okay? And we only know poor families. But I have never heard of anybody eating a raccoon. Now I have heard groundhog and groundhog stew. We never ate that ourselves, but I have heard of that. But never anybody eating a raccoon.

[00:01:33] He ate a raccoon on ration and ruin because his dogs tracked one down and killed it. And he cooked it. Oh my gosh, that's brutal. That is brutal. I would have to be SHTF hungry to eat a raccoon.

[00:02:01] I'm just saying it's not something I'd like to try and experiment on. So, I gave the intrepid commander sufficient ribbing in the back channel. And then, you know, as I do sometimes, I put some traps out, box traps, and I did catch a big hole raccoon and dispatched it.

[00:02:28] Because you got to keep them things away from your chickens. Man, we got two snakes here. Two big, and they're called rat snakes. Maria has turned into some kind of snake charmer here. I don't know. This one, it's got to be almost six feet long. This thing is massive. It's like a python.

[00:02:56] And I hope it's not getting any of our chicks or any of our eggs. Although, some days we don't get as many eggs as other days. Which is not necessarily unusual. But if there's a snake up there sneaking eggs, man, we got to get rid of those guys. I did notice a smaller amount, actually, elimination of mice here in the basement.

[00:03:23] I keep traps set and I check them daily and nothing. So, maybe those snakes are outside the house and they're patrolling the perimeter of the house here. So, for the past few days, she's been sending me pictures while I'm at school. Yeah, school is almost out. So, you're going to hear a lot more of me very, very soon.

[00:03:54] Deanna will be a senior next year. David's going into the fifth grade. Time marches on. Time waits for no one. I remember when Deanna was just first starting to walk. I think next year for her graduation, I'm going to have to break out the uniform. Yep. The dress blues. I'm pretty sure it still fits.

[00:04:21] Pretty sure because I wear my fatigue pants and desert camouflage pants around here all the time. So, yeah, that'll be something. Okay, PBN family. I just thought I'd check in with that and the rat snake report. And the warden came down here. She must have heard me talking. I'm in the basement.

[00:04:49] I can only sneak away and talk to you guys at certain times. She says, what are you doing? We got work to do. Yeah, I know. I'm fixing up electric fence. We are fortifying our position here against all things, foreign and domestic.

[00:05:12] I'm cracking myself up because I think we only have two Tuesdays left and next Tuesday is a finals day. So, if you don't have finals, you don't even come in. So, I don't even count that day. And history finals are on Wednesday. So, I got to do the averages.

[00:05:38] If you get a 93 average for the year or above, you do not have to come in and take your final. But anything less than 93, and boy, there were some of them close, close. And I bet they're kicking themselves in the butt right now. But that's the way it goes. Okay, PBN family. Take care. And prep on.