If it can’t be fried in bacon grease, it ain’t worth cooking, let alone eating. ~ Southern proverb
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. ~ Doug Larson
I looked for some quotes about bacon and found two I couldn’t resist to go with my Wednesday mystery photo. Yes, quite a few of you knew exactly what you were looking at in that mystery photo, although some of you were a bit worried about the shine. Bacon shouldn’t shine – unless it happens to still be in the package. Then shine is fine.
Making Our Own Bacon
Back when I was a kid, we raised our own bacon. On a cold day in the fall, Dad would declare hog killing day. Usually some neighbors showed up to help. We had one neighbor who was the guy who could take the animal down with one shot. My dad was always tender-hearted and had a hard time doing that. He could, but he didn’t like to. I generally stayed away from the early stages of the hog killing process where the hog had to be scalded in a big tub of hot water and then hung and gutted. Thank goodness, nobody expected a little girl to be part of that. I did join in on some of the other parts. I liked stirring the big black iron kettle where they turned the fat into lard. And I thought it was neat watching Dad fill up the cotton sacks Mom had made for the sausage once it was ground. He jacked up the car and hooked the grinder up to the wheel someway and then pressed the sausage out into the sacks. Sides of bacon and the hams were salted down in the smokehouse and eventually hung from hooks in the ceiling rafters and smoked with a hickory wood fire. That bacon was always really salty, but Mom wanted to make sure it was preserved properly. Salt can do that and before electricity came to the country, having one’s meat properly preserved was important. I don’t remember not having electricity and the big old freezer sat out on the back porch ever since I could remember. So Mom froze the sausage and didn’t have to cook and can it in jars the way it had to be done before freezers.
Now I’m like how most of you probably are and buy my bacon in nice packages at the store. Then I like to cook it on the stove or in the microwave to make those summer indispensable BLT sandwiches with yummy tomatoes fresh out of the garden.
Those Imaginative Guesses
So, many of you were right about my mystery photo. Lisa, you can tell your husband I told you so. A few of you came up with jello. That shine on the bacon package led you astray. I think that might have been what made some of you see strawberry jelly too. I loved the super imaginative guesses like Perrianne’s melted Hershey bar. Paula thought chocolate too after she zoomed in and out to try to figure out the picture. Several others also saw chocolate something. Virginia H said muddy tire tracks. Now that was a good guess. Wrong, but still a good guess. Ola saw a reflection on water and Marji thought it might be a dishcloth. Lucy says she’s awful at this, but came up with a great guess of a ridged skillet. You know, the kind some people use to fry bacon. So she was right there in the ballpark with her guess. Everybody else was thinking food of some kind or another. See, bacon always makes you hungry.
New Mystery Photo
So now you have another mystery photo up top. This is the next to last one. I’m wobbling on thinking this one might be too easy, but it’s hard to be perfectly mysterious every time. I’m saving the sure stumper (probably in my dreams) for Wednesday night. I did pick the second winner Friday and that was Laura S. She has picked the book, River to Redemption, and plans to donate it to her church library. Now, isn’t that nice? The book is getting some good reviews which is great. Reviews do help a book find readers. Especially if they are good reviews.
I’ll pick the last two winners (this game) on Friday. I still haven’t mailed my prizes for my newsletter giveaway to celebrate River to Redemption, because I haven’t heard from the 1st place winner even though I’ve e-mailed her three times. Guess I may have to pick a new winner so I can get those prizes in the mail. I’ve given Missy S until Wednesday night. I do know how e-mails can get lost or end up in a spam box, but those prizes need to go out to somebody.
Again, thanks for playing my mystery photo game. I’m glad you think it’s fun. Let me tell you, it strains my brain figuring out something that might get your imaginations fired up – hopefully imagining something my picture isn’t. LOL. I go around looking at everything with a discerning eye. Could that be a mystery photo? So keep having fun with your guesses and I’ll try not to whine if you all get this new one right.
Upcoming Events:
I have a couple of events coming up in August. First, on Tuesday, August 7th at 5:30 p.m., I’ll be at the Washington County Public Library in Springfield, Kentucky talking about River to Redemption and how it is based on some Springfield history. Everyone welcome so if you’re in the area, come on out and ask me some hard questions. Then on Saturday, August 25 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. I’ll be joining other authors at the Paul Sawyer Library in Frankfort, KY to meet readers and sign books. Love meeting readers at book events.
As always, thanks for reading.
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As soon as I opened the email I thought of a lettuce leaf. I’m no good at this but am glad that others are. 😊 Thank you for playing this game with your readers. 😊
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Love all the guesses. We all got some imagination exercise for sure.
Faith, I do love butterflies and they do have beautiful wings. So, could be. Could not be.
Nancy, I like your imaginative guess. I can see that beautiful patio table with the sun shining down on it. Maybe I have a table like that. Maybe I don’t.
April, you’re not the first to see snake skin. Is it time for a shudder?
Susan, dragonfly is a guess several have made, but nobody has mentioned turkey feathers yet. So that’s a first. Wonder if it’s the first right answer?
Dragonfly wing or the reflection on water of a Turkey feather.
First thing I thought was a snake skin. (Ugh!) I’m probably wrong though.
This one is really challenging ! The reflection of the sky on a mosaic patio tabletop ?
I’m going to guess a butterfly’s wing!
I’m going to guessable butterfly wing!
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Cara, spelling doesn’t count on the internet. Just in books. I appreciate your guess and how you like seeing my posts about walking with Frankie. I need to add one I took today of him down at the creek. I’ll do that on FB tomorrow maybe.
Sis, dog bones and grapes. Hmmm! Now that’s using your imagination all right.
Betty, love your guess of sunshine through a crocheted shawl. Also love the “Be thanks in all things even you when you wonder what they are.” You maybe get quoted in my next blog post. 🙂
Una, it could be something reflected in a mirror or water. If it is, wonder what?
Pam K, those flies are interesting if pesky creatures if you look at them really close. Did you ever see any of the doctor flies? When I was a kid, we’d sometimes kill a fly on the front porch and then watch other flies come to help it back on its feet and into the air. Or maybe we were just using our imaginations thinking that. LOL.
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Linda Mc, you are agreeing with several others about that dragonfly. But did you ever see a dragon fly? I had a Winnie the Pooh book that had Pooh afraid of flying dragons. Oh, and thanks so much for reading River to Redemption. So glad you enjoyed the story.
Pat, not sure about that ear of corn, but it is corn season in Kentucky.
Janice, you got very specific with your dragonfly. A widow skimmer. I need to look that up. That’s a neat name.
Perrianne, it might look like a honeycomb. Maybe. Might. Might not. 🙂
Loretta S, I wondered when somebody was going to say snake skin or fish scales. I do sometimes find a snake shed. So could be you’re right.
Connie, you’re following right behind Loretta and seeing the same thing. Snake sheds are interesting and I might take a picture of one. Maybe.
Lucy R, I love sunflowers. I like that you guessed that. Doesn’t mean you’re right and it could mean you’re wrong as usual, but at least you’re playing the game and exercising your imagination and I hope having fun.
I think the photo could be of a fly’s wing.
This one is hard. Maybe something against a mirror or something in water.
Sunshine through a crocheted shawl or afghan. Or a macramé plant hanger. Be thankful in all things even when you sometimes wonder what they are!
Dog bones and grapes! 😉😁😂
Im guessing a caliper on a leaf! . Im sorry my spelling isnt correct,
Love seeingnuour post walkjs with frankie are tghe best.
I’ll guess a sunflower 🌻. I’ll be wrong as always. 🤗
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Amy, you’re agreeing with Tammy about that dragonfly wing, but do you know how hard it is to get a dragonfly to sit still long enough to get your phone out and turned on and take a picture? Wonder if I managed that.
Linda, sounds as if you got the whole family involved and you all saw something different. Your sister agrees with some others on that pineapple, and your brother’s and your beehive guess has been a popular guess too. Sis in law’s reflection off water has been one others have said too. So wonder which one is right or if any of them are right. Thanks for playing.
Linda L, you are combining two of the popular guesses, a beehive reflection on water. Sounds like an interesting picture. We shall see if it’s this interesting picture.
Lois, I like how you said one thing and then let your imagination lead you to something totally different – that popular pineapple guess. We shall see come Wednesday.
Margaret, I think lily pads are so pretty and I’d love to catch a picture of a frog on one of them. Maybe I did and just left out the frog. Could have happened.
Laura, you’ve got the insect world covered here. They do have interesting wings. That’s for sure.
Ola, you must love sunflowers as much as I do. They are lovely and I’m thinking they would look good reflecting off water. So maybe that’s what this picture is. Maybe.
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You guys are certainly getting that imagination exercise. I need some of that kind of exercise as I try to think up some new story ideas.
Melanie, I do love wind chimes and they have a zillion different kinds. One of them might look like this.
Tammy, dragonfly is a great guess and you should really sure. So we will see come Wednesday if your confidence is warranted.
Paula, I like the reflection on metal and the stained glass idea. So much that maybe that’s the picture I took. Maybe.
Marji, I did have a glass birdbath, but it got water in it last winter, froze and broke. 🙁 But I might have taken a picture first. In fact, I’m sure I took a picture first. But is it this picture?
Emily, pineapple seems to be a popular guess for this set of mystery pictures. Several guessed pineapple on the last pictures. Wonder if it’s right this time. Hmm.
Lavon, butterfly do have lovely cocoons, don’t they? And I do love butterflies. Did I find a cocoon and take a picture? That remains to be seen.
Lisa, you were right last time. You have a pretty general guess this time. Leaf. So many kinds of leaves. But could be. Could not be.
reflection of a net?