"He Needed Killin"

In the olden days, before police were a 911 call away, people took care of problems themselves, usually at the business end of a gun. When word did reach the law, the typical reason for a shooting was, "he needed killin". We fully support the old ways here at The Acre, and are working on that very thing.
Larry, Moe, and Curly were too stupid to go back into the coop the first day they did manage to leave it. We moved their food and water out into the fenced in run, and after a day without food, they came outside to eat, but they refused to go back into the coop at night. The next morning we found blood, feathers and no guinea birds. We knew we had a predator in the hood.
The next night, we lost two grown chickens. They were locked inside the new hen house, so we were baffled at first, but since Big Man was a detective, and he has all day to investigate and postulate, we figured the bad guy got back into the covered run, then went through the chicken door to get the birds. Modifications were made and box traps were set to catch the critter, but we had no luck. Big Man set a trail camera near the run, and we got proof of our prey.

And he needs killin.
When we were not involved in tracking killers, we were canning. Pops came through with a large picking of green beans this week, and we did a canning Saturday. We have twenty quarts in the pantry right now, we are shooting for 60 to get us through the winter. We will keep you posted.

We also did another batch of squash relish. We got another six jars of relish, which is awful good on beans, and brats, and just about anything else we like to eat around here.....

Big man did a smoke this week. We had a tip of a beef brisket rubbed down, and he added it to the weekly rib smoke. We keep the brisket on hand for eggs, or collards. Cupcake suggested we make Sunday breakfast gravy out of chopped brisket, so next weekend we will report on results.

This was the best smoke ring to date, Big Man seems to get better at it with each smoke. And what's a smoked meal without a home made pie? We are still getting rhubarb and strawberries, so Big Man whipped up a fresh from the garden pie.

We ended the week with chicken wing Sunday.
K&K