After years of apologizing for our point-and-shoot camera’s inability to show the homestead views with true magnification, I purchased a camera that gets us a lot closer to that.
I’m learning to use it, and, thanks to a quick explanation by my friend, Russ White, I can now use the panorama feature.
This shot isn’t full panorama, I cropped it a bit to take out some of the fisheye effect it makes. But, readers can now look forward to better photos of the homestead, and most likely more of them!
The dinner I created with the porcupine we bagged the other night (see Night Hunt) turned out pretty well.
I find that for me, the key to porcupine cooking is simplicity. Thankfully, our porcupine encounters are rare enough that I’m not very proficient at skinning and butchering them; unfortunately, that means that each time I do it requires a lot of time and hard work. By the time I’m done, the preceding process, and the urgency of getting the fresh meat cooked quickly discourages long, involved recipes.
Pulled Porcupine turns out to be a tasty answer to this issue. Continue reading
