Chillin the Most

We broke in the ponds this week. The humidity was up, along with the heat. We have had a box full of inner tubes since winter and we broke them out.

We took them over to Pops house since he has the floor air compressor. That made quick work of them.

We took the Dudley Twins down with us, and we jumped in on the tubes. The twins made a few laps around the pond, trying to figure out how there were going to get to us.

After a few laps, Lawman floated over to the bank and grabbed up Augustus. Apparently "swimming is for suckkas"

Jealousy got the better of Willow, so she started swimming around us. For hours.

After a couple of hours of swimming, she made it clear it was time to float with her brother, which was our leadoff picture this week. Before all the Dudley drama though, we got a little quiet time together.

We hear tell the governor has decided pools and waterparks are just too dangerous to open up this year?
Other things going on this week, we have some garden pictures. The rain and heat really popped them off this week.
Gem corn is really taking off. If we get one ear from each plant, we will have gem corn coming out of our ears this year.

The garden at The Acre is really doing well.

We have an example of mulch vs not yet mulched. The purple beans in this picture were planted two weeks after the next picture.

Next yard clippings will go to the older bean row. We love us some green beans over the winter.
We caught two rabbits this week by the barn. After we eliminated them, nothing has bothered the cabbage.

We had to cull a few chickens this week too. Lawman found a nest of chicken eggs under a cover near the coop. He was planning on letting the girl hatch them out since she put all the effort into making the nest and hiding them from the group. But when Lawman came back a few minutes later, there were four birds steading chowing down on the nest.
We have been getting zero duck eggs every morning, and with 18 ducks that didn't seem right. We figured either the ducks had a nest out in the brush, or chickens were eating the eggs before we opened up the coop in the mornings. So Lawman put down the four birds eating the eggs, and the next morning we had six duck eggs. We are pretty sure we still have a few chickens eating eggs so we're going to cull most of the adult birds and let the fresh flock of chicks take over egg duty.
We made a new gallon of laundry detergent, because somebody has a problem.

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