"so i just brought home the bacon"

This Christmas season will be a busy one, with family and friends and parties and out-of-town guests. I'm also working on a "Little House" project and trying to get organized for an upcoming research trip. Today begins a countdown to Christmas, compliments of my LH tree...

From Little House in the Big Woods (Chapter 2, "Winter Days and Winter Nights"):

When Pa came back he had both a bear and a pig in the wagon. He had been going through the woods, with a big bear trap in his hands and the gun on his shoulder, when he walked around a big pine tree covered with snow, and the bear was behind the tree.

The bear had just killed the pig and was picking it up to eat it. Pa said the bear was standing up on its hind legs, holding the pig in its paws just as though they were hands.

Pa shot the bear, and there was no way of knowing where the pig came from nor whose pig it was.

"So I just brought home the bacon," Pa said.

The bear is a wooden ornament made by Midwest Imports, I believe. It was originally holding a fish, which I replaced with a pig I made out of pink Fimo clay. I probably should turn the pig around so the face can be seen. Maybe next year...
- posted by pioneergirl at 10:02 PM