It's been awhile!!

Hi there, well its been a really long time since I have done anything on this blog!!

Between COVID happening in 2020, where I was unsure if it could be spread via food preparation!! Which made mw think to keep all my customers, family and myself safe and healthy I decided to suspend making jerky!!
And also the added challenges of home schooling my 3 daughters, which wasn't hard as I taught at TAFE and also while in the military. It was more the learning how things have changed with the way kids are taught stuff these days. So it was less stressful not doing the jerky.

Then I had gastric surgery, which sat me on my bum for awhile during the recovery period! Then to add to matters I broke my left foot, which required surgery and pins and screws to be added to repair my foot. So that was another write-off, then to add to the bad run!!! The third thing; as it always happens in three's.......I had a tilt-tray tow truck hit my RAM Ute and wipe it out. But that's what happens when a Tow-truck loses control in the snow on a highway when they are doing 80+ km/h, causing them to slide sideways down the highway!! And you have no where to go, but workout what the safest out come will be for you in an accident. Luckily I was calm and let him hit the left side of the ute!! It got pushed in about a foot from the front to the back tyres, resulting in me having back issues for the rest of 2021. 

So during all this time, I had planned to have my Commercial Kitchen up and running, but money and my great luck put that all on hold. But now slowly, really slowly it has started coming together. With a few fridge and freezer brake downs and complete layout change of the kitchen and taking up more room. The gas and water is now fully connected, power to all the equipment is 98% done. The power was all good but the addition of two massive dehydrators this year, I've had to get a few things re-run for the dehydrators to run with out tripping the power!! 

So I don't have a start date as yet!! But it should be some time soon this year (2022) so long as I don't procrastinate too much, you just have to love having PTSD; it just does great things sometimes. But making the jerky is a great therapy for me, so you'd think I'd be making it more😂😂

Well that's enough out of me for today, hopefully I'll be able to put up some pictures of the place and the cattle soon, and have a look at my Facebook page of my property, Hattonvale@Meanburn 2865 and you might just see what other funny and odd stuff I get up too when I'm not PJ's Jerky

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