Barn Finds

We know, you hear "Barn Find" and you're thinking about Steve McQueen's Bullitt Mustang in factory condition. We live a little slower here at The Acre, but we still get excited over barn treasure. Ours is an old soda bottle. The bottle has been in front of the door of the barn for probably longer than Lawman has been alive, but this week the straw and poop parted just enough we could see the side of the bottle. We dug it out and cleaned it up. It's a keepsake for us, we just wonder who the person was that drank the soda and left it for us to find. We have mad time like that.

We had a slight storm come through this week. It didn't amount to much, but we did get almost three inches of rain from it. The wind did blow just enough with the rain to down a tree at the family cemetery. So Pop met us up there and we we sprang in to action and cleared the roadway.

The rain did some good as well. Mushroom season is upon us, and the big rain gave us a snack one night.

We went ahead and planted our corn, beans and pepper plants. We also threw in some squash and cucumber seeds at The Acre. Over at the barn we planted four rows of gem corn we saved from last year's harvest. After we mowed the yard, we shelled out the corn. We now have over 300 feet of gem corn planted, and 200 of silver queen. Fingers crossed for a good year.

We got to use the new yard rake for the first time. Cupcake took the first lap this week and we are pleased with the results. Looking forward to getting it in the garden rows soon.

And this week we released the baby ducks from the run. They usually take two days before they leave the coop and then a couple of weeks before they leave sight of the coop. This batch hit the ground running and didn't look back. Literally. Our neighbor Zach called us while we were sitting in line at Starlight Drive In waiting for our hot dogs and said he caught five in his yard and was bringing them back to the house. Next day our neighbor up the street had to herd them down from her driveway. We drove them down to the ponds and after they found the water, we figured they would stay close to home. We were so very wrong. So we gathered up the ones that we could find and put them back in the run until they get their minds right. And we do mean...RIGHT.

"Wait! Teach us how to be ducks!!"

A Dudley update to round out the week. Augustus finally took a swim this week. He was following Willow around the pond when the bank gave way and Gus fell in, so he had to swim back to the shore. He sat and pondered what happened for about five minutes before he went back to running and jumping and playing. Next day "The Boy" and "The Girl In-Law" took them back to the pond, and Augustus wasn't having anything to do with water. We hope when the family starts swimming, he will join us. Again, fingers crossed.
We ended the week with fried pork chops, and went to bed early. Because...Damn
K&K