Anyhoos, I'm a retired foundry pattern maker of some thirty really odd years. I have in my tenure as a pattern maker made wooden foundry patterns for anything from watch parts, oil rig parts, steam engine parts to patterns to cast dinosaur bones in bronze. I retired some years ago and moved away from it all to basically live off of the grid and now live in a log house over looking the beautiful Pembina valley somewhere in Sunny Manitoba Canada, 1068 meters from the US border.
We, that is the little woman and meself pretty much live off of the land what with four acres of garden, a couple of Black Iberian pigs ,a whack of Red Rock Cross hens and a couple of Jersey cows named Sh%ts and Giggles. Oh yeah there's also the half dozen pea fowl who are as brainless as most politicians, I say most simply because I have seen politicians even more brainless than these feathered rejects from the short bus and last but certainly not least there is the herd of Dobermans, five in all but one of the girls is looking decidedly portly so I guess it will be the pick of the litter AGAIN and the family circle widens.
Been making sausage off and on since I was a kid but it has always been just the regular farmer sausage smoked hams I have decided to try my hand at some thing a little more exotic. Hope to find some help along the way.
P.S My name really is Swallow it was given to me by my Grandmother who said I reminded her of a little bird that chirped too much and the little womans name is Sky. Go figure (The Swallow and the Sky) It works fer us.
Swallow
