A Little Work

If you tuned in last week, you saw we promised a big announcement. We figured we had better get the word out before the neighbors broke their necks driving past the house, trying to figure out what's going on.
Since Lawman was a lad, there has always been an old cow pond on the property. It has fallen into disrepair over the years and filled with silt and cow poop and whatnot. We decided we would go ahead and clean the pond out, and clear away the trees and brush from the sides so we could use it for people.

First day, equipment arrives

Deer stand, or rope swing launcher?

Marine Corps equipment on The Acre?

The only sad part about the whole ordeal was losing two oak trees that were probably 150-200 years old. But they will make plenty of smoker wood, so we're looking on the positive side of it. Plus, we plan on planting a fruit tree orchard near by next spring, so we lost a couple of big trees but we're gaining a hundred or so new ones. Fruit makes us happy, and the bees will have something to do for years to come.
Speaking of bees, we've had a hot dry spell around The Acre for over a month. This means we've had to feed the bees quite a bit of syrup to keep them going. The little boogers were going through two quarts of syrup a day, which is about four pounds each. We hope they reward us in a couple of months. Right now, they're kind of testy.

Needy baby, greedy baby

You really cant tell, but the bees swarmed Lawman 

Because it's been so dry, the garden has really slowed down. Except for jalapeno peppers. They seem to thrive during the heat. We've already got our jalapeno jelly squared away for the year, so we've been making Lawman candy with the ones that come in now.

Since we took a year off from the updates, we have gotten out of the habit of carrying around a camera to document our day to day. We started to on Monday when Lawman sliced up a ribeye for steaks in the coming weeks. But apparently a shiny squirrel distracted him from finishing up the job of documentation.

We missed our usual "Hey Grandpa, whats for supper?" pictures, so we will work on doing better in the coming weeks. One thing we did get a shot of was our fried potatoes on Sunday morning. For "Thor's red meat Thursday" we usually dig a hill of potatoes and grill them alongside our steaks. We do extras and keep them for Sunday morning. This we remembered to get a shot of.

And our latest biscuit recipe. We bake these in butter. We've served these for Easter and when a few of the boys from The People's Republic of Maryland came to visit. We've gotten really good feedback, so this will be our go to biscuits for a while.

As always, we ended the week with wings.
K&K