Planting Underway

This week we started planting our garden things. We planted our onions, a row of collards, a planter of snap peas, lettuce and a few pots of herbs. We would have shown you pictures of all this stuff, but it would be a bunch of pictures of dirt. We're pretty sure your dirt looks like our dirt, so if you're curious, look down.
We also put a whole lot of work into our chicken coop this week. We shoveled out three wagon loads of poop. Rather than let it go to waste, so hauled it over to Pop's garden and he spread it out on the future row of his potato row.
The other chicken news is we started saving our eggs to hatch. March 22,23 are prime days to set the eggs to hatch, according to The Farmer's Almanac. We ordered the new birds from Tractor Supply but we have to hatch chicks, it's in our DNA.
Funny story of the week involves Cupcake once again. After we had our wings we always take the trash to the dumpsters to get rid of the chicken packaging and wing bones. This trip, Big Man reminded Cupcake it was save the eggs day. The conversation went something like this: "I forgot, we will start tomorrow, of course we are saving the green eggs, so I guess I can find the ones I picked up today, I mean the new eggs are on top, OK, we can start today".
Big Man has noticed it's best to just let Cupcake argue with herself until she wins the argument. Things always work themselves out when he does.
On with the pictures.
We started out planting our new fruit bushes along the garden fence.

Then Tuesday our new appliances arrived.

Our stove we broke using the canner on it, so we went old school range so we can use the canner inside. And our dryer got to the point we had to run it five or six times to dry one load of clothes. We send our condolences out to Appalachian Power, they will miss our huge bill each month.
One rainy day, Big Man was stuck inside so he made a fresh batch of orange marmalade. We opened our last reserve jar this week, and there was a look of panic on everyone's face. We shall not run out of marmalade.

All from scratch, it's labor intensive

Some food related pictures.
We're still getting double yolker eggs.

And we had Cupcake's favorite. Monday is now officially "chicken paprika" day.

And on a happiest of food related notes, this coming week St. Patrick's Day falls on Thursday. Thursday is always officially "Thor's red meat offering day" so Big Man prepped a beef brisket ten days in advance. Our twist on corned beef and cabbage.

We beat our meat

We ended the week with wings.
K&K