We had a couple of animal related visits this week at The Acre. First we had a turtle greet us at the chicken coop one morning. Lawman had to hear the phrase "Fear the Turtle" the whole time he was in the greater Baltimore area, although he's not sure why one would fear a turtle.
Then we had a hummingbird come inside the house one evening. We keep the front door open on cool days for a cross breeze. Lil hummer got inside and forgot where the door was. He buzzed around the rafters all evening, and we figured he would come down when he got tired/hungry. Next morning he was sitting on top of a box of plastic forks, patiently waiting for us to let him back outside. We carried him to one of the feeders and let him drink up. A little while later, he buzzed off.
And a follow up on the Deathstroke Mobile from last week. We forgot to mention it's a biodiesel engine, so we like to think we're doing our part to stick a thumb in big oil's eye. Maybe someday they will have so much surplus gasoline they have to pour it over their breakfast cereal. Fingers crossed.
We started the week off by planting the clover seeds for the bees next year.
Fraidy Mutt kept a close eye on Lawman while he was working out front. She worries about him.
One day Pop scored a large bag of green beans from Cousin Tommy, and gifted them to us. We canned them up and added them to the storage shelves.
And on garden related notes, we roasted our first round of okra for dinner one night. We've never had orka for a meal, and it turned out really well. Cupcake says we can plant an entire row next season.
Lawman had a good idea this week, and instead of making a whole cheesecake he quartered the recipe for a whole cheesecake, and made cheesecake cupcakes. Less waste and individual servings take up less real estate in the fridge.
Cupcake had a late night one night this week, so we decided to heat up a jar of our tomato soup and some grilled cheese sandwiches to go with it.
The soup was such a hit, Cupcake ordered a double batch be made the next day. We picked all the tomatoes we had on hand and tomato soup was made, as directed.
This batch made another six quarts of soup. We doubt this is the last batch of the season.
Friday night we decided to stay in, and Cupcake wanted a meat lovers style pizza. Lawman made a fresh crust and fried up hot Italian sausage, hamburger and bacon. We added pepperoni and garden onions along with our home made pizza sauce.
Cupcake says it changed her life. And an order for more pizza sauce was placed.
Saturday morning we had our usual pancake breakfast and realized we had nothing planned to do. We foolishly went to the front porch and decided to take the day off. That lasted about fifteen minutes until Cupcake got the urge to make applesauce.
The Japanese beetles wrecked our apple trees this season, we had all kinds of apples on the trees this spring, but we lost nearly all of them by last month. So we drove to Fralin's produce stand on Bent Mountain and bought a bushel of fresh apples, and a dozen bales of straw.
We came home and cleaned out the coop de ville, put down a fresh bale of straw, then we started slicing apples.
Saturday we made a dozen jars of applesauce, and had half of one more that we left out for breakfast Sunday morning. After breakfast Sunday morning, we cooked up the rest of the apples. Half of the leftover apples went to more applesauce, and half went to apple jelly.
We are all set now for applesauce and apple jelly, and we will never again say we have nothing to do today. Those seem to be our busiest days.
We ended the week with wings.
K&K
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