A Fowl of the Lawman

This week we culled all our adult chickens. They had been eating their own eggs for a while now, then they started eating the duck eggs. We thought we had the egg eaters eliminated, but apparently eating eggs is easier than eating bugs in the yard. Foraging is for suckas.
Lawman and "The Boy" teamed up to eliminate the chickens. Then later that day, five of our ducks got into the garden and started plowing through the cucumber/squash sections. We shooed them off and patched the holes in the fence, but an hour or so later, they were right back at it. This time they brought baby chickens in with them, who got a belly full of green tomatoes. This just wont do. We ran the ducks off again, but when they returned they joined the adult chickens in poultry heaven. We hope the baby birds start laying by October, buying store bought eggs if for suckas.
Other than bird drama, we picked green beans most of the week. We are up to our target number for quarts of beans to get us through the winter.

And before the birds ruined the cucumbers, Cupcake took a batch and made dill pickles. We like dill pickles in our half eggs, as "De-nephew" calls them.

We had a big ol batch of basil come in, and rather than waste it, Lawman hit on an idea. We have been out of sketti sauce for a while now. He took all the leftover jars of tomatoes from the pantry and cracked them open. Added fresh from the garden peppers, onions and garlic along with the fresh basil, and made over five gallons of sketti sauce.

We had a jar of sauce that was not quite full left over and we kept that one in the fridge. Saturday night Cupcake made a mini batch of baked sketti and homemade garlic biscuits for dinner.

One last food update, we had to break out our second 20lb box of bacon. Lawman sliced it up into weekend bags and froze it. Well, most of it. We eat a bit of bacon.

On the Dudley twins front, we had mischief one morning. They got the bright idea that the dozen or so chew toys we buy them just wouldn't do, and destroyed their outside bed.

That "we get a treat, right?" look on their face is for a good reason. During the warm months, they get a small cup of doggy ice cream after dinner.

A funny "ha-ha" this week. We have a little frog that waits by the garage door for us every night. Cupcake is convinced it just wants to touch her feet when she walks past. What ever the reason, it sure makes Lawman's night before bedtime.

We ended the week with wings, and preacher cookies

K&K