Duck...Duck...

No gooses here.
After another sabbatical, we're back with some day to day stuff. Actually, it's more like crammed in to one day of the weekend stuff, but stuff none the less.
Cupcake and Lawman took turns getting sick over the past two weeks, but the good thing was, only one of us got sick at a time. So we took turns taking care of each other. It all started with Cupcake getting sneezed on during a flight to Florida, she brought the funk home and when she got better, Lawman took his turn on his back. After everyone got feeling better, Cupcake got called away again and was gone most of this past week. Lawman got everything mowed and weed whacked while she was gone, and when she got back, we did Acre stuff.
First day of fall, so we bought a bushel of apples.

We sliced them up and made apple sauce, apple butter, and apple jelly, all at the same time.

12 jars of apple jelly

12 pints of apple sauce, six of apple butter

While Cupcake was gone, our ducks started laying eggs. We got six by the weekend so we treated ourselves with Sunday morning breakfast with duck eggs.

Our first duck eggs

Much thicker yolks and whites than chicken eggs

Lawman and Pop went with scrambled

Cupcake likes hers over easy

During the week, "The Girl" discovered she likes pumpkin rolls. She wanted to make one, but when it came time to make it, she opted to let us make it for her.

A sort of project we tackled while the jelly was making, we bought a new shelf for the mud room. We have a lot more room now.

After we got everything cleaned up, we ended our week with wings.

K&K

We're Back

A few of you may have noticed we've been off the grid for the past two weeks.
We had a couple weeks of emergency room visits and doctor follow ups. Anyone who knows Lawman shouldn't be surprised by this revelation, but this time it really wasn't his fault. We went to bed one night and sometime during the night, Lawman got up to pee like old guys will do. When he stood up, he fell straight down in the bed. He was unable to put any weight on his left knee. He had to hobble around and find a crutch for his pee break.
Next morning he strapped on his brace and tried to get around, but was moving pretty slow. He waited a few days before giving in and heading to the doctor.
His knee has been held together with baling twine and duct tape for ten years now, we figured it had finally given out. It was swollen and turning blue.
First exam, the ortho doctor went ahead and scheduled surgery for the following week, then sent him for X-rays, MRI's and whatnots. A couple of days before the surgery we went for his final visit before the big day, and learned the MRI showed the knee was just torn and bleeding. The fluid from the bleed was causing the swelling and keeping him from extending it. So taking the doc's advice, he stayed off of it for a few days and it healed up enough to get around for his day to day.
But being flat on his back for two weeks, we didn't take any pictures or do anything anyone would care to hear about.
We did have a light switch break just prior to the knee giving out. It was an easy fix, but we're trying to jump start the updates, so.....

Our grapes came in this weekend, so we picked all we had after the birds got the majority of them. We had enough for one round of jelly.

Cupcake went out for Japanese one night for dinner. She brought Lawman some sushi to brighten his spirits.

And no matter how bad we feel, we always end the week with wings.

K&K