TIMMMMBEEEERRRRR!!

It finally happened. Fraidy Mutt has all but ignored the Christmas tree over the past few years, but this year something peaked her interest. We had just turned off the latest episode of "Arrow" when we heard a crash in the living room. We found the mutt hiding behind the couch, and the tree on the floor. We figured there was a shiny squirrel that had passed through the tree before we brought it home. Shiny squirrels are a common thing around The Acre.

And along the dropping of trees thread, Big Man took advantage of the warm weather this week to drop one of the wild cherry trees on the property. They are deadly to cows, so we try to cut them in the winter. Plus they make excellent smoker wood, and we love us some smoked meat.

We did a bit of baking this week. Big Man whipped up another fruit cake.

And Cupcake made a batch of preacher cookies

And another batch of her soon to be world famous sausage balls.

Last week we made a batch of boiled custard, and it turned out so good that we thought we had better make another batch, just to make sure we had the recipe down pat. You know, before Christmas entertaining and all.

One thing we are going to try in the coming week is a recipe that's been going around the Facebook for a while now. Red velvet cheesecake. It's a cheesecake in between two red velvet cakes, topped with what is a close recipe to Big Man's soon to be world famous cream cheese icing. Tune in next week for results.
One thing we have been putting off was our rosemary plant. We had it in an old cast iron pot our family used to boil steel traps in back in the day. We had a sweet potato vine in the same pot, and after the first couple of freezes, the sweet potato vine died and we figured the rosemary would too, but it never did. Since it's been so warm this week, we went ahead and dug the rosemary plant out of the pot and transplanted it in a flower pot, then moved it inside for the winter. We saved the sweet potatoes from the vine as well. We planted the small ones for next year's vines, we will cook up the bigger one for dinner.

We ended the week with wings.
K&K