New Arrivals

We have a couple of new arrivals at The Acre this week.
First off, "The Girl" recently took a new job at the new Food City in Radford. She's been getting her training on in Pulaski and decided to upgrade her wheels.

We like her taste in vehicles and are quite proud of her.
The other new arrivals at The Acre this week are game fish. We ordered crappie and catfish back in the winter months and the order came in this week. We drove to Bonsack to meet the fish truck and bring our new critters to the ponds. We also ordered yellow perch, but they wont be ready until October. Lawman enjoyed fishing for them in The People's Republic and look forward to doing battle in his very own fishing hole.

Lawman and "The Boy" walked them down and set them free right around dark Saturday night. Fingers crossed they do well.
Critter related news this week includes bears. We assume it was a bear that got in to our bee compound this week and killed off one of our new colonies. We found the top pulled off the hive and the bees were gone. There was a gap in the electric fence where we think it got in. We are thinking that with the week of rain, the solar charger didn't have enough juice to repel it. Country drama.

Before the rain hit, we got out in to the garden and ran the small tiller through the onion rows to beat down the weeds before the rain hit.

We picked our first lettuce for dinner one night.

Cupcake took a few pictures of our fruit while Lawman was doing his thing.

Grapes were set back a little

Viking berries

Plums

Pears

Goji berries

Cherries

It's looking like a pretty good jelly year is about to happen?
Food related stuff this week, Lawman made one of his cheese cakes from scratch. None of that from the box premix that "Crazy Granny" tries to pass off as home made.

You know it's home made when you get the official Klingon Empire stamp of approval in each attempt.

Cupcake got artsy with the weekend breakfast, eggs in onions was on the menu.

And we round out the week with the Dudley twins. Being cooped up in the house for three days during the rain event means a LOT of energy to burn off afterwards. We took them down to the ponds every day, several times a day, and they did not waste the opportunity to run and jump and play.

We ended the week with chili beans and replacing the small flag with the big flag, because Memorial Day.
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