Suckers and Pudding

This week was pretty much a complete washout around The Acre. We had rain every day, some days just enough to make it too wet to mow, other days it just rained all day and took away all hope of mowing. Being stuck inside is hard on active retirees and their spouses, but we rucked up and managed.
We did find a few things to take pictures of. We start off with the suckers part of the our title. Cupcake read online that when one pulls the suckers off of their tomato plants, they should not discard them, but replant them. The article says the suckers will take root and will match the size of the host plant in one months time. This sort of information appeals to us, so we gave it a whirl with our tommy toe tomato plant on the porch.

Being inside we did a bit of cooking. One thing new this week was butterscotch pudding. Cupcake found a recipe for it on the faceplace and Big Man had free time plus ingredients, so....

And we had a discussion about from scratch biscuits this week. The other party's idea of biscuits were frozen. For shame

We did a boil, Pop's favorite

And we have a neighbor lady nearby who's getting on in years. Big Man worked in the hay fields throwing hay bales as a young lad for her father. She's taken over the farm but lives in Roanoke. Big Man looks after the place, keeping the yard mowed and trimmed up like folks live there and whatnot. Since she's of the generation that seems to appreciate buttermilk pie, we fixed her one when she came up this week.

Always home made pie crust

We got our first strawberry of the season this week. First of many we hope.

And lastly, we have crazy critters on The Acre. Most of you know this already but this week they went out of their way to remind us. We have two guinea birds gone broody, so we put a bunch of blue eggs under them along with a dozen or so of their own eggs. Then our little blue hen went broody (Boomer) so we gave her a few more blue eggs.
One day we were out on the deck, minding our own business when we heard a commotion near the coop deville. There must have been a predator in the area, because our guinea birds went in to full blown combat air patrol. We stood by for a while but never saw what all the drama was about.

"Negative Ghost Rider, the pattern is full"

Our regular followers know we always sign off with wings. This weekend "The Dutchess" wanted to have a cookout Sunday afternoon to celebrate the graduation of the feller she is dating. We bought copious amounts of hamburger and all the trimmings, but plans changed and they went sparking on their own, so we had burgers Sunday night. Plus we had s'mores on the grill for dessert. Cupcake put graham crackers on tin foil, along with a marshmallow and a piece of chocolate. We will be making these again soon.

K&K