Our Life Together: Heavy Duty F350 "Deathstroke"

We bought new wheels this week. Actually, we started last week with looking, test driving and whatnot. We tried to get the deal in last weekend but we got too late of a start. Cupcake wanted to check out the selection, so we did. Then she wanted to test drive one, so we did. Then she wanted to see one in black, so we did. When Michael brought the truck around the corner of the building we both said "that's our new truck".

It had all the bells and whistles, and when you punch the gas peddle, you can feel the power of the truck in your heart. So says Kattie Grace.
The black truck we bought had some dealer prep to go through, so they let us bring home a silver truck like the one we bought. We drove it for three days until ours was ready. We thought that was a very nice thing.

Once we brought the truck home, we posted a picture to the Faceplace and asked public opinion on whether to name the truck after "The Punisher" (since Lawman is the Predator Punisher) or "Deathstroke" who is a Batman/Green Arrow villain. Powerstroke/Deathstroke won the poll, so it will forever be our Deathstroke mobile.

After all the new truck hoopla wore off, we got back to doing what we do around The Acre. We finished up mowing off the little food plot in front of the house. We bought a few bags of clover seed because it's calling for rain all this coming week. We are going to seed the mowed areas with clover and get the patch ready for our bees next spring. We very much look forward to some clover honey.
The small patch in the upper left corner of the picture is being saved. When Lawman was out mowing the field with his scythe, he found dozens and dozens of praying mantis and their eggs. We decided to not mow down that area in hopes the mantis thrive next year. We even talked about trying to catch a few and relocate them to the garden.

The weekend rolled around and we got busy putting food into jars. We shucked our corn and cut it from the cob. We canned nine pints off of this picking, and probably have that many more in another row.

We picked the rest of the beets in the early row, and made pickled beets. This round made 18 quarts, so we should be set for the winter now. We also have a late row of beets still growing.

Then we picked all the tomatoes we had along with onions, okra, peppers and basil. We slow cooked the veggies all day and made five quarts of spaghetti sauce. If you have never tasted from the vine to the jar spaghetti sauce, you're missing out.

Then we sliced up a few of our bigger onions and pickled them. We used up our leftover pickle sauce and got eleven quarts. We are going to use these for recipes and burgers and whatnot.