Nobody needs an AR-15

That's what all the sheeple on Facebook say. We beg to differ the point. Living out in BFE as we do, we are at least thirty minutes away from government agencies assistance (that is, if they come a runnin). Lawman says a five minute fight waiting for backup is an eternity, so we plan on making any encounter with people who mean us harm a short one. We are prepared for a fight, but we're not out looking for one. We will however, make it a short fight should one come looking for us.
Our two or three followers know we've lost over forty chickens this summer to a bobcat. That's forty eggs a day we will not be gathering this winter, so our egg business will take a hit until next fall when we can try to raise another batch of chicks to egg producers. To protect the birds we have left, the bobcat had to go. This week his number came up. Lawman reached out and touched the bobcat with his big scary M4 style AR-15. One shot, one kill. So for all those who foo foo and spew the MSNBC horse shit line that nobody hunts with an AR-15, we say "nuts".

No chicken dinner for you

And speaking of people who mean us harm/have done us harm, there was an "Uncle Billy" sighting this week. We spotted the great liar heading down Rt. 8 with a load of house logs. So if anyone out there knows of a person who's building a log home in the Riner/Floyd area, pass along a message for us?

There's a new victim out there somewhere. Welcome to the club, we meet on Tuesdays.
The rest of our week was almost all food related except for Kattie Grace and her feller. They carved a couple of pumpkins this week. That ranks as our only project.

We did try a new meal this week. Beef ribs. We've smoked pork ribs for a few years now, but we could never find any beef ribs that we wanted to try. We found a pack of beef ribs at the Christiansburg Wade's that looked pretty beefy. Last week we treated the ribs and let them sit in the fridge until Thor's Day, when we made our red meat offerings to the God of Thunder.

Nothing like a wood smoker on a frosty morning

There were no leftovers

We made a batch of apple butter last week with apples from our tree in the yard. When we make apple butter, Cupcake makes fried apple pies. Lawman made a pie crust, and Cupcake took it from there.

And the end of the month is always the crazy time for Cupcake at work. We don't usually leave the house the last three or four days of the month, this caused us to miss a dress up Halloween party and our Friday night out on the town. We stayed in and made a pizza from scratch. Pappa John can kiss our behinds. We don't understand why everyone wouldn't want to make their own pizza.

Pizza crust, from scratch of course

Home made pizza sauce from the garden

Pepperoni, mushroom and onion

Brush the crust with olive oil

There were no leftovers

We are gearing up to dig our potatoes and plow under the garden and pumpkin patch next week, and we have tickets to the IMAX opening of "Dr. Strange" so that's happening.
We ended this week with wings.
K&K