Grillin' Pioneer Style and Other stuff

So as I said in earlier post's, without the luxury of a nice Weber grill I've reverted back to cooking pioneer style over the fire pit. There's good points and bad points abut this. Good: Nothing like wood fire grilled flavor, back to nature, a sense of accomplishment when it turns out right. Bad: You need to plan about 4 hrs ahead to let the wood burn down into coals, You have to make sure your grilling poles don't get close enough to the fire that they become part of the fire, The wind will always change direction in order to blow the smoke in your eyes at exactly the wrong time during a critical step such as when it's time to turn whatever your cooking over (in this case porter house steaks).

Oh yeah, "....it's what's for dinner!"















Luckily we have plenty of falling branches (and trees) around here so there is no shortage of grilling poles! Oh sorry, grilling poles are what you use to hold your grilling surface over the coals to cook when you don't have a Weber (and no I'm not getting paid by them for advertisement, well at least not yet!).

At any rate the fire did what it should and the dinner turned out great!

So on to the other stuff!
I was cleaning up a few of the dead trees that had either fallen on their own, or with a little help from me, and stacking the logs out at the edge of the clearing so I could use the truck to load them up and stack them over by the fire pit. The stack couldn't have been there more then 10 min before I came back to start loading it into the bed of the truck and when I reached down to grab the first log this little guy ran up to the top and looked me square in the eye as if to say: "Hey buddy, get your own stack this is mine!". So I tried not to hurt the little fella' and tried to grab some of the logs to the side and this little bugger would jump onto whatever log I would pick up, so I grabbed him and brought him up to Lightnin to get a picture.




Believe me this little guy was powerful and I was trying to hold him gently, and yet firm enough that he couldn't get out of my grip.

















Here he is on our deck rail asserting his dominance over us!
















So that's what's happening around here.