This week we kept our tradition alive. When the McRib comes out, we always get one. Just one. Then we wait for them to come back next year. 2021 is in the books.
You may remember a few weeks ago, we made several quarts of home made grape juice? Cupcake loves her some home made grape juice, and has a jar every Sunday with breakfast. We were coming down to the end of our juice, so Lawman bought a big box of black seedless grapes and made her some more juice.
And while we have grapes on the brain, we did some work on ours. We developed a fungus on our Concord grape vines a few years ago. It started out ruining just a few grapes on each cluster, but got worse each year. We tried to treat the vines with fungus spray, but nothing worked. Research on the situation shows the only way to get rid of it it so cut it down, burn the vines and ground around the plants because the fungus spores get in the dirt and come back each year. We caught a couple of warm days this week, so Lawman got to work.
Lawman hit on the idea that he would cut the vines off, then hook his tow strap to the chicken wire that the vines had grown across, and "peel" the chicken wire off the stand. Then he could replace the chicken wire and let the new growth climb back up. It was a good plan, he thought.
One good tug from the Silver Hornet, and we changed the plan.
The whole shootin match came down. Which may be a good thing, something that rotten would have come down sooner or later. We will just start over, if the vines come back. We pulled the whole thing down to the brush pile.
One other thing that went off the rails this week. The Dudley Twins.
We run the DT's to the barn every night, then down by the ponds, up to the chicken coop to lock up the birds, then off to bed. Saturday night, they were making the trek toward the coop, and both took off chasing something, but broke off and they were waiting for us at the coop. When we caught up with them, we figured out what they were chasing. A skunk. Both of them got a dose to the face.
So we had to do damage control quick. The old wives tale of tomato juice wasn't going to do, Cupcake said right off the bat "We're not wasting my tomato soup on this" so we went to the interwebs. We learned that peroxide and baking soda was the way to go. And since Lawman seems to think he can fix any wound with peroxide and gauze bandages, we had plenty on hand. The mixture worked. The boy came home later that night and said he couldn't smell anything inside house, so we dodged a bullet. Never a dull moment around "The Acre."
Food related stuff this week. Cupcake made a cranberry ketchup, then we had pork chops for dinner so we could use it.
Every Saturday is pancake breakfast day. We like to mix things up with pumpkin and pecan, blueberry, apple, something to shake up the flavor. This week, we used up one of our left over persimmons.
Friday the weather was kinda rotten, so Lawman took a day inside and made two batches of lye soap.
We ended the week with a couple of naps.
Scratch made dressing, with scratch made cornbread.
