Hurricane Prep

We are pretty sure everyone on the East Coast is doing something to prep for Irma. The farther South you go, probably more than others. We like to think we stay prepared and could shelter in place on a moments notice. We wish there was something we could do to help, but when the government tells you "There is nothing we can do" it's a situation nobody can prepare for or help fix. We hope everyone weathers it safe.
All we could think to do was wax Deathstroke so the rain beads off.

Picking up from last Sunday, we had to make a pizza because everyone bought out every single chicken wing in town.

Homemade crust, with fresh chopped basil in the dough

Meat lovers

Monday we took advantage of the holiday to clean out the coop de ville and dump the poop in the garden for next seasons fertilizer.

Later in the week, the next new obsession arrived at The Acre. Our first bee hive. We ordered this one to get acquainted with the makeup and possibly make our own from it's design. We figure we have all winter to tinker with woodworking and try to replicate the design.

We know "The Outlaw" has a garage full of woodworking tools that would make this a snap, but he's taken the path of batshit crazy so that's not an option for us.
Prior to the weekend it cooled off quite a bit, we like to think fall has arrived. Since it was cooler, we decided to smoke some meat. Brisket was the red meat for Thor's day offerings.

An added perk to smoking meat was a destroyed hornets nest. When Lawman fired up the smoker it backed up and made a smokey mess until we noticed what was left of the nest billowing out of the smoke stack.

This is the second time we've found a hornet nest in the smoker. We think it's poor planning on their part.
When the weekend hit, since it was still chilly, we decided it was time to break out some of our canned pumpkin from last season and made our first pumpkin pancakes this year.

Then we picked a basket of jalapeno peppers from the garden. Peppers and sweet potatoes is about all we have left. We have a late row of green beans that are coming along, but the deer and Lawman are having a nightly battle for who gets to eat them. We will keep the updates coming on that.

Lawman candy was on tap for this picking.

We found that one plant of our "Baltimore" peppers came in. These are the first peppers from it. We are saving these for deer chili next week.

And we found our regular brand of wings this week, so we ended the week with wings.
K&K