Woodwork Week

It wasn't an all week effort, but Lawman did a little tinkering around with table making this week. Cupcake had another whirlwind trip cross country, so Lawman was left unsupervised most of the week.
We have two gravity chairs on the front porch we enjoy relaxing in during the mornings and evenings. We use them when we are pulling marigold seeds or stringing and breaking beans, and we've often thought a small table between the chairs would make tasks much easier.

We liked the table he made another one to use beside the bed. Cedar wood smells nice inside the house, and now on the front porch.
Our ducks and chicks are thriving, we had to move them to the slanty shanty this week, they started to get running starts and jumping in attempts to escape the tub. Just before we moved them, we snapped this picture. We're not sure if ducks are learning to chicken, or if chickens are learning to duck. But they are stinking cute either way.

Morel mushrooms are coming in pretty steady now, so we sacrificed three to make a seed slurry. We've attempted to seed them for several years, maybe one day it will work.

A new gadget we've acquired recently is a weed eater on wheels. Pop says he is going to need us to step up and weed eat the family cemetery this year. Cupcake wasn't excited about humping a heavy wacker around in the heat. This should make quick work of fence lines and rows of stones.

For the food part of our weekly update, we thought we'd come up dry. When Cupcake is out of town, Lawman just grabs something on the fly. But one day social media made note that it was National Grilled Cheese sammich day, so he partook in festivities.

Thursday when Cupcake came home, she demanded a home cooked meal. Lawman fixed steak and dinner rolls. The new roll recipe has changed her life. Last week Lawman made a batch of dough then froze it. Now all we have to do is thaw the dough and cut out rolls to rise. First we butter up a cast iron skillet.

These are really tasty and will be a regular dish.
That brought us up to Sunday. We had family breakfast of biscuits and gravy like usual and went on to make the coming weeks dessert.
Saturday we went to town to do some trading like always. While at Tractor Supply we saw pots that contained key lime trees. Cupcake commented that we need one of these in our lives. Then at Wade's, they had limes on sale. It was decided that a key lime pie would be the pie of the week.
We bought a bag of limes, and hand squeezed the juice.

Then we went to the slanty shanty and grabbed six eggs, fresh from the chickens, to use in the filling.

We really like the flavor of this one, and will probably keep it around for the coming summer. It's tart but lite. Perfect for a warm night dessert.

After we got the kitchen cleaned up from pie making, we headed to the Imax theater to catch up on the latest Avenger's goings on. Because we're nerds like that.
K&K

Bee Farm

We put the finishing touches on the bee farm this week. The last things we had to do were string the electric wire on the pen and set up the hives. We took a tip from some Faceplace pages that suggested we melt bee wax and brush it on the top bars to guide the new bees, so we did that early in the week. Saturday and Sunday we finished the wire, electric hookup and setting the hives.

We left plenty of room for added hives, Lawman is working on a new one already. We have some farm farm pics. We started sweet potato slips earlier in the year, they have just started to bud.

But before we started the potato, we pinched a few pieces of vine from a last year potato, and put them in water. They started to root, and after we got a good root start, we moved them to cups of dirt.

And our traditional celery start is up and running as well.

New arrivals this week. Ducks and chicks.

We lost two ducks during delivery, but the four that remain are just so stinking cute. They waddle when they walk.
Also this week was "The Boy's" annual fund raiser at the firehouse. We whipped up two pies and a cake to donate, we understand they all sold well.

A couple of food related pictures. Fried chicken one night for dinner.

This week Pop went to a soccer game in NC with Brother Kevin and Denise, so weekend breakfast was makeshift. Cupcake hit on the idea to use leftover buttermilk dinner rolls to make bacon and egg sandwiches. They were a hit.

The big event for spring at The Acre. Morel mushrooms are back.

So we ended the week with wings. And mushrooms.
K&K

Garden Time

We worked quite a bit on the bee farm this week. Somebody got the weather controls away from Crazy Granny and normal(ish) weather returned. We took advantage by getting our neighbor and rabbit supplier to disk up the garden for us.

With the garden squared away, and probably as pretty as it's ever been since we broke ground, we planted our onions, lettuce and kale.
We helped Pop hook up his post hole digger and he dug our post holes for the bee garden. We pride ourselves on hand digging our holes here at The Acre, but the weather has put us behind the eight ball on time so we went mechanical just to get up and running before the bees arrive.

After we gave the quickcrete a day to set up, Lawman went down and made a door for the farm.

We took the solar charger off the little food plot then took the battery out and charged it up. The charger is probably forty years old so we figured on replacing the battery, but one day later the charger showed it was fully charged. So we put it back together and mounted it.

After we mounted the charger and installed all the insulators we had on hand, we took a break to get in some trigger time with our new his/hers handguns.

We still have some work to do on sighting. We forgot the tool for the sights when we loaded up to go down to the bee farm, so we will have to go back soon. "The Outlaw" would have been proud, Cupcake broke down and cleaned her own pistol after we got done. Too bad he's batshit crazy.
There was a little food this week. Lawman found a recipe for buttermilk bread. It was pretty good and we will probably keep it around.

Lawman made a slow roasted brisket one night. Edna Wolowitz would approve, it just melted in your mouth.

Sunday after breakfast we started our seeds for peppers and cabbage. Then we made the weekly pie. Back to butterscotch this week.

We ended the week with wings.
K&K