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