We had a quick but strong storm pass through this past week. It blew down a pretty big tree across from our egg stand. It also knocked down some trees along Fishers View Road. The Girl's boyfriend lost power for a few hours, but the linemen were quick like bunnies getting it fixed.
Predator drama happened this week as well. Lawman was on the front porch early one morning enjoying a cup of coffee with the mutt when he saw a red fox walk out of the woods. He had no creep to him what so ever, he just came walking up the hill toward the slanty shanty like he was King Shit of Turdville. Lawman jumped up and, learning from his last encounter, grabbed the M4. He got a good bead on KSoTV and heard "click."
Forgetting he cleaned and lubed the M4 last week, the chamber was empty. Foxxy didn't stick around for a charging and made good his escape. We've been on high alert all week, but so far we've not lost any birds or seen him back.
Between sweeps for foxxy, we did some work in the garden this week. Starting with a half bushel of green beans.
Lawman canned them up, one hour from vine to jar. You can't get any fresher than that.
Then we opened one of our jars of lime pickles from a couple of weeks ago. We are not ashamed to say they were life altering good. So good, we went straight to the garden and picked another mess of cucumbers.
So many cucumbers in fact, we filled our usual two gallon crock to the rim. So we had to break out ol #5 for this job.
We made another 15 pints of pickles.
Monday we grilled chicken old school. Tuesday we had scratch made biscuits with sliced chicken, fresh from the vine tomatoes and lime pickles. Chick fil-a can kiss our butts.
A second trip to the garden was for tomatoes and peppers. This picking made two batches of spaghetti sauce.
Saturday night our usual date night was cancelled. Dude's Drive In closes one week in July for staff vacations. So we bought a box of "Bubba Burgers" and grilled them ourselves. We finished the night off with grilled smore's.
Sunday morning after we cleaned up the breakfast dishes we made another batch of laundry detergent. Because someone has a problem.
All the blue ducks have settled in with the flock. They do their police line in the front yard chasing bugs, then settle in for a nap.
With everything as it should be, we ended the week with wings.
K&K
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