Slow Week

It was a slow week around The Acre. School is out, so the chirruns are not up at the crack of dawn anymore. The garden is in the nothing to do part of it's progress. Big Man runs a tiller through it once a week or so, and hoes out weeds as they pop up, but nothing really worthy of mentioning.
We have been getting quite a few strawberries, and we pulled a few stalks of rhubarb to make a fresh pie.

Fresh berries, fresh rhubarb, and home made crust, it's really tough to beat.
A few family mentions this week. First, Pop offered up some lettuce from his garden. The one down side to having free range chickens is, they eat every green thing they can find. This year it was our lettuce. They wrecked it as soon as it sprouted, then came back and ate the seeds when we replanted. Same for our sugar snap peas and spinach. But we digress.
Scalded lettuce one night for dinner.

And our cousins, Bill and Francis, sent a case of canning jars by Pop for us to use, and trust us when we tell ya, we use some jars around The Acre. So a big "Thank you" to them.
The one power tool project that came up this week was a downed tree. We have dozens of wild cherry trees around The Acre, and Pop has quite a few behind his house as well. Wild cherry trees are toxic to cattle if they eat wilted leaves from the wild cherry. One storm ago, a wild cherry snapped off behind Pop's house, and he has cattle in the field. We caught Pop gone one afternoon, and sawed up the tree, and hauled off all the limbs. We brought them to The Acre and piled them up in a trash hole to burn next wet day we catch. Crisis averted.

And about two weeks ago, we planted a half dozen American Chestnut trees around the house. Apparently these are blight resistant versions of the long dead American Chestnut trees. We have tried for several years to start trees from the English Chestnuts Pop has in his yard, but we have been foiled at every turn, except for one sprout we found and dug a couple of winters ago. We transplanted it, and it's still coming back each year.
But the point of this last entry is, while we were unloading the limbs from the cherry tree, we noticed one of the American trees started putting out leaves, so we were a little excited about it.

We ended the week like we always do. Wings.
And a fresh round of home made chocolate ice cream.
K&K