Police Memorial Week

It was Police Memorial week this past week. We observed the event with our new thin blue line flag. Our old flag lasted 20 years, but the sun finally faded it out. We also have Project Blue Light, but it's every night.
Mowing took up most of the week, but the weekend picked up with cooking and planting and whatnot.
We dropped off Rhulenbarb's yellow cucumber sets and a few eggs, the girls have been stepping up the production the past couple of weeks. I guess they understand when we tell them their replacements are here, and we enjoy fresh chicken wings?
On the garden front, the potatoes have sprouted.

We also had some luck finding a few straggler mushrooms over the week.

Rather than frying them up this week, we decided to soak them in salt water then chop them up for an omelet on both Saturday and Sunday morning breakfast.

Mushrooms, sweet peppers, chopped onions and a little smoked ham for Saturday eggs, then smoked brisket in Sunday's eggs. Oh that's right, we smoked a brisket Saturday.

While the brisket was on, we whipped up a fresh batch of butter....

To go on our from scratch, honey rolls...

After about eight hours of slow smoking over sweet maple wood, we arrived at the magic number

We took the brisket off and foiled it, then wrapped it in towels until dinner time, then came time to slice it. When we say slice it, it was more like use the knife to pull it apart, because this one fell apart. There was actually juice squirting from the meat when we cut in to it. By far, the best brisket we've fixed to date.

We tossed in a cast iron pot of greens with rib meat, and we had a pretty good meal on our hands. We ended the week with Chicken Wing Sunday, which is our tradition.
K&K