Butter and Butts

It was a rain out for most of the week around The Acre. Not a lot going on, but we did manage a couple projects, did some planting, and doctored some birds.
First off, butter.
Our faithful followers know we make our own butter, but we ran into a cost factor when we added up the totals. The last trip we made to Sams Club, we found heavy cream on sale for half of what Wally-World sells it for, and when we crunched the numbers, it comes out ahead. So we bought a big batch of cream, then froze it, and made butter as we needed it. Freezing cream did not hurt the process, but the fat and the milk separated, causing a longer process time for butter.
Last week we made our trip to Sams, bought our big batch of cream, but this time we made five batches of butter at one time, then froze the butter in packages. Now we open a pack of butter when we need it. It works out much better for us.

We keep our buttermilk too

Five pounds of butter and a half gallon of buttermilk. We did good

And we had a bunch of bananas going mushy, so Big Man whipped up a loaf of banana nut bread with them.

We made a pepperoni pizza one night, because the chirruns think ham and pineapple is just too exotic

Toward the end of the week, we did some landscaping and planting out front. We have tried for three seasons now to get our hands on weeping cherry trees. This year we found and bought the last three on hand at Lowes.

And a batch of jasmine to run up the front porch near our bedroom window.

And every year, Cupcake puts ferns out along the front porch, this year was no exception.

And for the "butts" part of the post, we had one of our lavender birds come down with a case of "pasty butt" which is a common thing for birds hatched in an incubator. People in the know say it's do to a lack of protein in their diet, and recommend a soft boiled egg mashed up after you clean their little bottoms off.

We got him all cleaned up, fed some egg, and now he's back to running and jumping and playing with the rest of the crew.
We ended the week as we always do. Wings.
K&K