Starting Seeds

It's Daytona week and folks may remember last year we said we start our tomato seeds the weekend of Daytona. Last year when we did, the plants got to be too big and didn't do as well as we normally like. This year we decided we would start our pepper seeds, since they take longer to mature and wait until maybe mid March to start our tomatoes.
We found some starter pods we wanted to try this year. They are wrapped in a coconut wrapper that is more biodegradable than the Jiffy pods we have been using. But to start off, we got our shipment of seeds from Bakers Creek this week.

We soaked our starter pods and then planted one dozen of each type of hot pepper.

Last year we had a meeting with our financial advisor Steve Leitess. During the meeting we had a cheese platter with peppers on it. We really enjoyed the red peppers and inquired as to what kind of peppers they were. On the trip home we stopped at a roadside produce stand who just happened to be selling those peppers. We bought a few and saved them for the seeds. We have since forgotten the name, so they are just "Baltimore peppers." We also planted some fish peppers. They were introduced in Baltimore from the Caribbean or so the story goes. We're looking forward to adding them to our salsa this year. We planted citrus hots and jalapeno peppers so we should be well stocked on spice this season.
An unexpected project this week came about after a wind storm Monday night. We always get a good breeze here at The Acre, but Monday night mother nature tried her best to blow the house off the ridge. The only damage was our flagpole. The wind shredded our flag and bent the pole.

 It also broke the halyard. The top clip was stuck in the pulley up top so we had to improvise a way to pull it down for repairs.

So we took our fish net with an extendable pole, and taped the awning hook from the camper to the end of it for a hook, and hooked the clip to pull down. Worked like a charm.

We had some predator drama this week. We left our trail cameras out and last weekend we caught another fox messing around below the chicken coop.

So we've gone back to trapping mode. We will report on our progress, it's what we do.
Our last pictures are food related. Sunday breakfast. Sausage gravy, homemade scratch biscuits, and "The Outlaw's" favorite, fried kielbasa sausage with cheese melted. It's a shame he chose not to participate, he misses out on a whole lot of great eating.

Our canned apples are always a welcome treat

And we ended the week with wings.
K&K