How you doin?

The garden started paying off this week. We have a steady supply of cucumbers coming in, we got our first squash, and green and purple beans are a thing now. But we start off the update with the Dudley Twins.

We've been getting down to the dock at least once a day, and we take the twins with us so they can do what dogs do. This weekend, they forgot they were on a dock in the middle of the pond and got to rasslin. Augustus fell off the dock and into the pond. We always figured if he did fall in, he would take to swimming as well as Willow does. We were very wrong.
Gus had full blown panic in his eyes and instead of swimming, he tried to climb back on the dock, which he couldn't do alone. Lawman fished him out and he seemed grateful after he calmed down a bit.

Willow wears herself out by swimming, then rolling in mud, then swimming, and then rolling in mud. We make sure swimming is the last thing before we head home.

On to the garden portion of our report.
Last week we reported a batch of pickles in the crock. We canned those up Monday morning.

And right after we canned those, we picked a new batch of cucumbers. Biggest picking so far this year. It made eight pints.

We picked two buckets full of beans early Sunday morning and spent the rest of the morning stringing and breaking them. A quick wash and in to the jars they went. You cant get fresher beans unless you eat them raw off the bush.

We also picked five heads of cabbage. We used three to make a bucket full of kraut, Pop got one of the smaller ones, and we had one left over. We're thinking fried cabbage one night this week.

The four head we kept weighed in just a little over 35lbs. Duck poop is the key to big ol cabbage. You're welcome. We still have over a dozen more head to play with this year, so it may be a kraut for dinner twice a week kind of year.
So we canned up the green beans, we put them in pint jars for Pop.

And the purple beans we put in quart jars for us. In total we did eight pints of pickles, eight pints of green beans, eight quarts of purple beans, 27 pounds of kraut, and it wasnt even our whole day.

Two canners, no waiting

A couple of food related notes.
Our first squash came in, and Cupcake loves her some fried squash, so fried squash she got.

And we tried the survival S'mores on the grill. They worked out better than they did over the campfire from last week.

And we ended the week with wings.

K&K