The Adventures of Captain Jelly and Spatula Girl

This was the week we had been waiting for. The cherries came in and Cupcake was on vacation all week. We picked around ten pounds of blackheart cherries from Pop's house, and a few more sour cherries and red cherries from our tree.

This should hold us a while

As we were making the jelly, Cupcake would wash the jars and when we got to the end of the batch, she would take a spatula and scrape the rest of the jelly out of the pot and in to the jar. Lawman was was joking around that "Captain Jelly and his side kick Spatula girl" would make a great comic. We will be reaching out to producers with the idea.
And as luck would have it, blueberries came in at the same time. Remember when we posted a few weeks ago that this was the first year for the blueberry bushes and we didn't think they would amount to much this year? We do. We picked enough for one batch of jelly.

Strawberries are coming back in as well.

We did a little cooking this week. Cupcake found a recipe for a sesame chicken salad we wanted o try.

Roasting sesame seeds and almonds

And we found a jalapeno pepper quiche recipe. It turned out really well and we will be making this again soon.

Homemade pie crust. Always homemade

Anything with bacon is gonna be good

As we do most times, we forgot to take a picture of the finished product before we cut in to it and chowed down. We did post a picture on Cupcake's Face Place wall, so if you're interested in the finished product, check her page out.
On Thor's red meat offering day, we had a skillet full of fried squash, scalded lettuce straight from the garden, and dinner rolls.

And grill top smores for dessert.

Cupcake made another round of homemade sausage.

Lawman made another batch of laundry detergent

Our new girls are making themselves at home in the woods near the coop.

Our first batch of guinea birds hatched this week. We still have a dozen or so eggs that are a week behind this batch.

And last for the week was a well checkup. We have been waiting for a while to get the well company back out to The Acre to raise the pump up a few feet, this week they showed up. And it's a good thing they did show up. We found the grout around the well had settled and there was a huge hole along the side of the pump. They said there must have been an air pocket that collapsed. Anyway, they are coming next week to fill in the hole and the pump has been raised up.

We ended the week with wings.
K&K