Step 1.  In a large glass, mix all cocktail ingredients.  Taste for salt and add more salt if desired.  

Step 2.  Add ice to the glass. 

Step 3.  Arrange parsley or celery and wooden skewers in the glass and serve. 

Step 4.  To make bacon veggie skewers: Pierce a slice of bacon with a wooden skewer.  Add an olive, then pierce the bacon again.  Go back and forth between olives and bacon as if you were sewing the bacon with the skewer.  Arrange grape tomatoes and remaining olives on another skewer.