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February 21, 2016: A Big Bacon Accident and some Archer Farms

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MY LIFE WITH BACON  continues this week, leading with a major traffic accident involving bacon. BACON IN THE NEWS BIG CRASH on I-64 between a furniture truck and a vehicle carrying bacon results in a massive mess on the highway. Quite an interesting story and must have been fun to watch the aftermath. Story and picture courtesy of NEWSCHANNEL3 in Virginia. "James City County, Va. – Crashes involving loads of furniture and bacon created a mess on I-64 Sunday, closing part of the interstate for nine hours. According to Virginia State Police, a truck that was carrying a trailer full of furniture crashed just after 2 a.m.  The truck hit the guard rail and went across both lanes of the interstate. During the crash, the trailer of furniture came loose from the truck and furniture fell out onto the roadway. Another vehicle slowed down to avoid the furniture debris in the road and was sideswiped by a tractor trailer carrying bacon. The tractor trailer then ran off the ro...

February 7, 2016: Bacon at Crystal Bridges and more Bacon Crime stories

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MY LIFE WITH BACON continues with another trip to Northwest Arkansas. MY FRIENDS CONVINCED ME to go to an art museum. Me, who has a serious gap in my education. No art appreciation or art history classes, and not music classes in all my education. Art is not my strong suit. For most of the modern art I see in museums, I feel like I could do it myself. I definitely "don't get" a lot of art. I feel like Ferris Bueller and his friends starting at a painting at the Chicago Art Museum: BUT , they talked me into it. Well, Skip did. And I'm glad I went. The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art  is spectacular. And in it, an original painting of my hero, George Washington, painted by Gilbert Stuart. Here's my photo of the painting. Blew me away. You can walk right up to it. Worth the entire trip to Arkansas. They purchased it from Christies at auction for over $8Million; it was owned by the NYC library. THE BACON WAS EXCELLENT . So how does thi...

January 31, 2016: A Trip to Orlando & a BACON CRIME WAVE

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MY LIFE WITH BACON CONTINUES from the Orlando area where son Jack is participating in the 3D Lacrosse tournament and showcase. Stopped at a Waffle House in Davenport, FL on Sunday morning for a quick bite. I got the bacon & eggs special. Almost forgot to take a picture. Great, great service, solid food. Bacon excellent. CRIME WITH BACON LAST WEEK WE LEARNED OF A BACON CRIME - a man hit his daughter with a package of frozen bacon . A dastardly act. But now there seems to be a virtual crime wave using bacon. This week, a brother stole the bacon off his brother's sandwich, who, when confronted, attempted to strangle the brother  with bacon and threw him down the stairs: At 1:30 a.m., police were called to an assault off White Top Road, where a man trying to make a sandwich found “all of the bacon was gone but one piece.” When the 44-year-old confronted his brother, 37, about the missing pork, his sibling slapped him into a staircase, then tried to strangle hi...