New Year '17

We slept through the new year's arrival, but when we woke up we found it arrived without us. We're OK with that.
We ended the old year with some success on the predator front. We had a bit of snow over the week, and Lawman could see the travels of a coyote and two bobcats. He adjusted the lure on the traps from fox to bobcat, and we had good results.

We had hoped that this was the mate to the bobcat we killed earlier in the year but tracks in the snow say that is not the case. It will give Lawman something to outsmart until garden season.
We tried to show how the trap thing works, this is our results.

Dig a hole, set the trap

Cover the trap. We use peat moss because it won't freeze like dirt

We scatter a little native dirt on top, then toss around ground cover

We had an inside project this week. Kattie Grace bought a piece of furniture with her own money after Christmas to help organize her room. We put it together one night this week. We think for the first time ever, all the holes lined up and assemble was a snap.

Then there was food.
People ask us how we manage to survive without a microwave oven. We cook our food on the stove or in the oven, and when it comes to leftovers (we had plenty of leftovers after Christmas) we toss the meal into a cast iron skillet and heat it up in the oven. We eat out of the skillet, and only dirty up two forks. The skillet rinses clean. Bingo, Bango, a meal without effort.

We made ourselves a homemade pizza one night

And Cupcake found a recipe for a baked Philly Cheesesteak wrap that was wonderful. We will most definitely be keeping this one in the rotation.

Lay out crescent rolls in a circle

Cover with meat/onion/peppers/cheese

Wrap and bake with a little egg wash and sprinkle with Italian seasoning

Tastes as good as it looks

And last but not least, we kept with folklore tradition. Sunday night we skipped our usual wings for a good luck meal of blackeye peas with country ham, fresh from the garden collards with a little brisket tossed in for flavor, and cornbread.

Happy New Year from Arlee's Acre!
K&K