It's Official

We are in the bee bidness. Our neighbor Zach turned us on to the bee guy we got this package from and he even went so far as to pick our package up for us and bring it by the house. Which was a good thing, because Lawman was really REALLY under the weather Sunday morning.
A couple of guys Lawman worked with in the People's Republic were traveling through the area, and stopped off at The Acre for a bite to eat and to have a sleep over. Lawman was up late, drinking adult beverages and overdid it a bit. Bee package day was a challenge, but a lawman rises to meet his challenges, so the bees were installed and our fingers were crossed.

We kept them inside until we were ready to install

Then found a shady spot while we readied the hive

One of the guests at The Acre this weekend was a life long member of the US Army, and bless his heart, we found out he was a frustrated country boy at heart. Small things like hummingbird watching and feeding chickens fascinated him.

Early in the week, we were honored by another visitor to The Acre. "The Beamer" was in town for his Alma-mater graduation. He and Lawman had lunch Monday, then Tuesday morning he stopped by to take some eggs off of our hands. He tried some of Lawman's chocolate pie, and approved.

 
Before the weekend arrived, Cupcake took most of the week off so we could tackle a couple of projects we've been putting off. The first one was new shelves in the basement for our canning jars.

Now we have plenty of room to get those cases of canned goods on the shelf and out of the basement floor. So we will just have to can more stuff.
We had some luck mushroom hunting, and fried up a batch for dinner one night.

We found a fresh flat of strawberries while Cupcake was off and used them to make a pie, then we froze the other half for later.

Cupcake made a big ol batch of her soon to be world famous snack mix for the boys.

We usually end the week with wings, but we fixed the wings Saturday night. Our pal Bob loved the sauce so much we gifted him a quart to take home with him. We thought he might want some extra when he offered to lick the bowl after the wings were gone.
We ended this week with a snack and an early bedtime, because we're not twenty any longer.
K&K