Valentimes 2016

This week ended with Valentimes Day. Being the die hard romantic he is, Big Man planned a special weekend, starting with a movie date with Cupcake. We went to see "Deadpool" at the local Imax theater. It was our first time at the Imax. We must be getting old, because we both walked away thinking the movie was WAY too loud. The big screen was nice, but going half deaf took away from the experience.
The movie itself was a hoot and a half, Cupcake had absolutely no nurd knowledge prior to marrying the Big Man. Now she can carry on a conversation about "Battlestar Galactica" "Iron Man" "Avengers" and all things "Green Arrow" and "Flash" related. But we digress.
"Deadpool" is a potty humor, extremely violent comic, and the movie held true to the comics. In our opinion, it blended back story and action very well. Cupcake says we have to go back to see it again, and we've never gone back to see a movie. Ever. Much less a nurd movie about a comic book.

Happy Valentines Day

Our two regular followers will remember we've been watching our guinea birds do a battle of wits with a hawk over the past couple of weeks. The guineas are really starting to pay off. Sunday morning we were getting started with our regular breakfast routine when Cupcake saw a stray dog in the back yard chasing the girls around. Before Big Man could grab the nearest assault rifle, she said "look at this". The guinea birds had surrounded the stray mutt, and had him backing up away from the hen house. Big Man stepped out and put a hot round between it's legs, which seemed to help get the dog's mind right. Problem solved, problem staying solved, thanks to the little watch birds and the Colt Firearm Company. We did see the hawk again this week too, but we still have not lost a chicken to it.

We left you last week prepping for Superbowl Sunday snacks. We start off the food related portion of the update where we left off last time. Cupcake made some pizza snack bites to go with the wings and chicken poppers. We also bought a little tub of Mrs. Wade's spinach dip. Not to be confused with Mr. Wade Wilson, seen above.

Big Man made another batch of paprika chicken this week. When we try a new recipe, standard operational procedure is to follow the recipe to the letter. If we like it, we make it again, only we make it our own. This week Big Man tinkered with the spices and put it over linguini noodles. It is now our recipe, and it rocks!

We had to have a buttermilk pie to go with it.

And we had steak night as our offering to Thor's Day this week. The picture really does not do justice to the meal, but we do what we can with the equipment on hand.

Fraidy Mutt looks forward to Thor's Day as much as we do. She comes unstuck when there is red meat on the menu. We tried to get a picture of her drooling, this is the best we could do.

It's not easy being a dog around The Acre.

One last food related follow up. We shared the huge blue egg from last week, this weekend we fixed it for Saturday pancake day. Cupcake likes her eggs over easy when she has pancakes, it was in fact a double yolker.

Fraidy Mutt got her pancakes this weekend too. So all is right with the world again.
A couple of non food related items, we got a dash of snow again. It didn't amount to anything, but it sure was pretty coming down.

'murica

We made another gallon of laundry detergent this week.

We upgraded our humidifier in the master bedroom. The first night we used it, Cupcake got up to check on something or other, and when she came back into the bedroom, she thought she encountered a ghost. It puts out quite a bit of mist, the first night it was almost a fog. Big Man had to break down and read the instructions on how to dial down the mist. It's not too bad now.

And on a neat kind of note, we shared our Dude's Drive In cup from Saturday night. We left the cups in the truck overnight. Cupcake went out to empty the trash and found the water had frozen solid in the cup, and water had climbed up the straw and out the top. We are really simple people, amused by really simple things.

We ended the week with wings.
K&K