Ah, the smell of bacon!

There's nothing quite like the smell of bacon wafting through the still morning air.  We'd prefer to cook bacon at a campsite someplace but we've been too harried recently to take time to smell the bacon.  So, we decided to celebrate the last day of July with a nice skillet full of thick cut pepper bacon.  I even sought out a new utensil in which to serve the bacon--a "heart healthy presentation," you might say!  Our "Rules of Bacon" decree that it MUST be cooked outside so that everyone can enjoy the aroma.  Also, it makes a real mess when cooked inside and the old aroma turns stale and stinks up the place.  If you cook it outside on a campstove, it's almost like you''re camping in your own backyard!  Cheap thrills, huh?  We love to cook bacon but, due to Old Age Health Concerns, we don't do it very often.  If I get bacon twice in a summer month, it's been a good month.  Once a month is about right.  We almost never have bacon in the winter--it's simply too cold outside to stand around cooking bacon.  Well, I guess we're now an official B&B: Bacon & Baking here at the bungalow.

Cheers, jp