Deez Nuts

We did some harvesting this week at The Acre.
Cupcake reminded Lawman we had a row of peanuts that needed pulling. Lawman had forgotten all about them. We pulled half of the plants and were surprised by the number of nuts per plant. We are looking forward to roasting a few over our new fire pit, seen below. Next year we open a new garden for root based plants, and we are going to add peanuts to it.

Lawman found a use for several of the large rocks left exposed by the pond construction. Inspired by the Ancient Aliens show, we decided to leave our own megalithic structure behind.

Lawman put the new wood splitter to use and prepared us a little fire wood to burn in the new structure.

We are under a burn ban currently, so it may be a while before we can use it. But we need to let the nuts cure a while before we roast them, and the upper pond is still a foot or so away from being full. A little rain should solve both issues at once.

Pop killed a beef critter this past week, so we both cleaned out our freezers to make room for fresh meat. Lawman found a couple of deer back straps that he didnt want to waste. He worked them up for a pot of deer chili, and cut out a few slices for deer gravy on Sunday morning.

Fresh from the garden jalapeno and sweet peppers

Three gallons of deer chili is a good start to the season

Gravy fixins

And speaking of deer meat, we don't know what kind of flowers our neighbor lady plants in her yard, but we need to inquire. She has three bucks come into her front yard, in the middle of the day, every day, to snack on whatever it is she has planted. We need some of it down by the ponds.

Back to the harvest part of our week.
We dug our potatoes with the use of The Silver Hornet this weekend. Then we went over and dug out Pop's potatoes. We keep busy.

We only had about half of what Pop planted, but it will be enough for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners.
We are not sure you'd call it "harvesting" but we boiled the bee comb from last weeks honey raid and used it for homemade lip balm and deodorant.

Cupcake has been saving her Chapstick containers for just such an occasion. The recipe for both is very simple, and we're not sure why everyone wouldnt make their own lip balm. Next year we double down on the hives.
A couple of food related pictures from the week.
While cleaning out the freezer, we found half of a pork loin and half of a brisket we had saved. Lawman rubbed both down with his home made meat rub (Giggity) and we smoked both for dinner this week. Then we sliced the leftovers with the new meat slicer. Pork loin for sandwich meat, and brisket for homemade Rubens.

And we bought a new ribeye at BJ's, so Lawman sliced them up into steaks and got them ready for the grill in the coming weeks.

Non food related pictures to finish out this week.
First, we seem to have a broken washing machine. Every time "The Boy" loads the washer, it fails to start up and wash his clothes. Any tech savy readers have an idea whats wrong with it?

And Cupcake has the Granny Arlee touch when it comes to Poinsettias. Both can keep them alive all year. We are prepping to move these to the basement in hopes they bloom by Christmas.

We ended the week with bakes spaghetti and a nap.
K&K