Dog TV

Dog TV was still a thing this week. We had a bit of 'keep us inside with the mutts' weather, so we tuned in to keep them occupied. Lawman may like the channel just as much as they do?

We try to spoil the Dudley Twins, but for all the comfort items we have bought for them, they still prefer to sleep in the floor during nap time. Spartan dogs?

The weather was a treat this week for us. Lawman spent all day Friday planting onions. We have five gardens so it took a while to get all the rows in, but we managed nearly 600 sets for this year. He had to work to beat the weather, then we woke up to this.

We don't think it hurt the onions any, it only stuck to the decks and a couple of high grass spots. It seems like the cherry trees and pear trees managed to keep their fruit, fingers crossed. But it just goes to show mom nature has a sense of humor.
A couple of food related updated for the week. One was home made fajitas. Lawman sliced up a couple of chicken breasts into thin strips, then sliced a leftover ribeye steak from earlier in the week, along with onions, peppers and our own fajita spice mix. This was as far as we got on updating the pics. After we fixed them we sat down and ate them with no thought at all of documentation.

The other pic worthy of mention was another trip to the Waffle House. We bought two more bags of waffle mix, but gifted one to the girl-in-law so she could make the boy breakfast one morning. And we picked up another box of bacon and split it up into freezer bags. Each bag will get us through a weekends worth of breakfast. This is one of three.

And to end the week, we mowed the grass here at The Acre. One thing Lawman wanted to touch on was how our very own government keeps screwing up the simplest things. Gas cans.
For 20 years in The People's Republic of Maryland, Lawman worked off the same gas can. It had the little hole in the back you opened up, poured the gas into your mower, refilled it when it was empty. It was simple.
When Lawman retired and moved back home, he knew he would need several gas cans to avoid trips to town every week, so he bought a few five gallon cans. They were the new and improved government models with buttons and triggers and no little hole in the back to let the air in. All done in the name of safety. They were a pain compared to the old cans, but we made due.
Now twelve years later, those cans are starting to give out. The little button and trigger have started to break off the cans, so we went and bought a few more new cans. These cans are new and improved over the older improved models. These cans have a little button to push down to unlock a big button you have to hold down to allow the gas out.

Older improved on right, new and improved on the left

You can see the old 'new and improved' model took in to account that a five gallon jug of anything weighs approx. 40lbs. Hoisting one up to pour the fluid out is at least made easier by the handle on the back side. The new, new and improved model has no handle on the back side, so you have to push one trigger to unlock the second trigger, then hold the two triggers in while hoisting the can and trying to pour it with one hand, from the top handle.
The US Government didn't do anyone any favors. It's a shit show to try and fill up a lawn mower now from the new cans. So, to make things smarter instead of harder, we empty one of the old cans, then take the nozzle off the empty can and the new full can, and pour the gas from the new can into the old can, so we can fill a lawn mower.
Yes, lets let the government take care of all our needs from now on.
We ended the week buying more Mason jars to store more food, because..Damn
K&K