This Week Stinks

This week slipped past us with very little to report on for some reason. Looking back, we were as busy as usual, but we failed to document it seems.
Our lead off picture is a new nightly visitor. Fraidy Mutt has learned her lesson about trying to chase skunks, so we live and let live.

One thing that did happen this week was chicken related. All at once, the Americauna birds started laying eggs. In years past, it's taken almost ten months before they mature, but this year it was six months. We now get over a half dozen blue eggs each day, and at least 18 eggs total.
A good side effect of this is word seems to have spread around that we sell eggs, because business has picked up at the end of the driveway. We guess the "honor system" selling resonates with days gone by buyers?

We did have a rained in project this week. Regular readers know that our cousins Bill and Francis have been keeping us in jars. Well this past week, Bill's brother Wayne and his wife Betsy, sent us another load of jars by Pop. A big "Thank You" goes out to them this week. So with jars on hand, we made a big batch of ketchup. We started out with two quarts of this years garden tomatoes.

We slow cooked garden onions and a few teaspoons of cinnamon and garlic until it cooked down to the thickness we wanted, added a little brown sugar, and bingo bango, ketchup.

Straight Outta the Canner

 Cupcake got a big jump on Christmas this week and wrapped the presents we have on hand.

Veterans Day was this week as well, so regular followers will remember it's swap the flag time. We move down from the 5X8 to the 3X5 flag, because we get a really nice breeze here at The Acre in winter time.

And the food update was a real winner this week. Big Man smoked a brisket, but he did not soak it in buttermilk like he usually does. This time he went with the same prep he uses for steaks. On Thor's day, he put the brisket on at 0630hrs, but the wind was crazy blowing, and the smoker was off it's game a little. It smoked for twelve hours, but when we took it off, we almost had to eat it with a spoon. The brisket was more tender than the boiled turnips we had with it. This will be the new prep for brisket from now on.

And we ended the week with wings.
K&K