Baymule’s Journal

[Baymule]

Still raining.

 

[Weldman]

 

[Ridgetop]

Never looked up the reason for why bacon and ham is salty with pork, wow I feel like a dumb arse after so many decades.

Pork, fish, and other meat used to be preserved with salt. Hams are smoked after being soaked in a brine. They were hung inside the chimney breast - large area above the firebox used for hanging meat to smoke. Butchering season typically in late fall-early winter because less flies and you can hang the carcasses to tenderize before cutting up the meat without worrying about spoilage. Salt reservation not done so much anymore now we have freezers.

I am not a fan of pork either, but you can also can it in a pressure canner to store it. We buy pork chunk meat or whole legs when on sale cheap and use it in chili verde, make sausage, etc. The standard carcass yield from cattle, sheep and goats is 50% of live weight. Hog carcass yield is much higher - around 75% or more. This is because you can use almost every part of the hog. All trims can be made into sausage, feet can be pickled, etc.

If you want to raise a hog, you can feed it all leftover trims from kitchen, garden cuttings, etc. Hogs and chickens will eat EVERYTHING. Goats are picky eaters. They browse like deer and don't graze like cattle or sheep. You might want to consider raising rabbits. A trio - buck and 2 does, kept breeding year-round can produce an average of 16 5lb. fryers every 3 months. Raise in hanging wire cages, your LGD will protect from predators, and you can do worm beds underneath.

 

[Baymule]

I love me some CCR!

 

[Baymule]

Commissioner of Precinct 1 posted this. I don’t know what road this is, but I’m glad I don’t live down that road.

 

[Weldman]

That ain't a road, that's a dirt trail, where's the rock? Looks like here after a gully washer without 10 inches.

 

[Mini Horses]

That is scary....if it's a "road" -- WOW. I wouldn't even try walking that. Stuck forever

 

[Baymule]

It has finally stopped. I’ve been out to the paved road on the Kawasaki mule. I can see where water was over the road in 10 places, still water over the road in 3 places, in a 2 mile stretch. I can make it outa here today!

I got total a little over 10” of rain.

My sister lives in Conroe close to the West Fork of the San Jancinto River. She is down river from the Lake Conroe dam and has flooded several time. She and a friend went to Waco for the grand opening of a historic hotel owned and renovated by Chip and Joanna Gains. So she wasn’t home last night, they are headed back this morning.

The road to her house

Her house

Her neighbor took care of her little dogs. She has several inches in the house

The River hasn’t crested yet, so the water will come up some more. She is determined to get home if she has to wade in. I’m not too sure about that. Hope her friend can talk her out of it.

 

[Weldman]

Damage is done, animals are safe so no reason to tie up rescue by being a victim is what I would tell her. Sad thing is, no one except a few will mitigate or has mitigated from this destroying their homes. They will build by the code and houses will flood again in 10 years or less. I've seen in Conroe they have hurricanes flood that far inland and this could of been prevented along with rainfalls such as these.
It could of been worse if the river plugged up by dead trees like in October of 94' happened down in SE Texas. The bayou plugged up was one problem with rain from several systems.
https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-073-94/pdf/FS-94-073.pdf
My parents mobile home is 2' off the ground and I have seen water lap the bottom of it three times in 20 years in Beaumont. I'm sure it has done it again since I moved away. It's like they tell everyone here the frost line is 36" according to building codes, yet other maps say 60" to 70" and year after year plumbers get rich from busted lines as if it's a new thing.

 

[Mini Horses]

Bay, hasn't she had her house flooded before? Soon, won't be able to buy insurance for such.