May the 4th Be With You!!

Yes, we update on the holy of all nerd holidays, Star Wars Day. It was a busy week down on planet Earth this week, we got quite a bit of work done around the house on top of mowing just about every day, which will be the norm until November probably.
First off, we have our chicks. They spent their first week in their new coop, and they seem to be thriving.

Sup???

We opened the run door for them mid week, and this is the first landing of the first bird brave enough to exit out...

Nope!!

Cupcake adding hanging baskets to each stud, work in progress

We planted the majority of our garden this weekend. We still have tomatoes, squash and cucumbers to set out later to miss the frost, but the beans and corn are in the ground.

Rocking some 4th Infantry love

We also have lettuce, peas and onions doing well so far

Our rhubarb has bloomed, so now it's time to rip the bloom off and start harvesting the stalks. We are gonna be up to our ears in rhubarb this year, it appears.

Rhubarb bloom, tearing it away makes the plant spring to life

And you cant have rhubarb without strawberries, and ours are looking fab so far

And we also tried a new thing this year, which is kind of our thing anyway. We built potato boxes. The theory is you plant the seed taters and when they come up, you add a six inch plank and more dirt, and wait for the vines to grow, then add a six inch plank and add dirt, repeat until you have a box full of potatoes. We will be sharing our progress

We transplanted three more cherry trees that have sprung up in the back yard, we moved them to the front yard to double as shade trees, then we changed the oil in our cars.

Funny thing. Big man has been wearing his boony hat ever since he caught the Lymes, and the first song to come on the radio when he crawled under Cupcake's car was "Send lawyers, guns and money" which has a line about "I'm hiding in Honduras, I'm a desperate man". Big man got his boony hat in Honduras, during a little whirlwind tour of the tropical jungles of Central America, back in the day.

It's probably not so much funny ha ha as funny coincidence. Anyway, we share the oil change pics for two reasons. In Cupcakes former life, nobody would buy her a Fram oil filter for her vehicle, and Big Man's father out-law told her the oil filter was too hard to get to for a self change. (Father in-law, but he don't like the Big Man, and they don't speak, hence, out-law. It ain't funny if we have to spell it out).

Out-law said what now??

We ended the holiest of nerd holidays with "Chicken Wing Sunday" which is out tradition.
K&K