It's That Time of Year

 Summer officially jumps off when Cupcake gets the ferns for the front porch. This week was that time. 

We know everyone has been waiting, patiently, for us to name the new 5th wheel. This week we settled on a name. "Serendipity"

People who are in the know, know that we met when Lawman pulled Cupcake over on a traffic stop when she was 16 years old. Lawman's little voice told him "you're going to marry this girl." What not a lot of people know is, a couple of years after the meeting, we both attended a George Straight concert in Roanoke. Both bought tickets at different times from totally different locations, but as fate would have it, the seats were side by side. How is that not the universe telling us something?

Anywho, we named the 5th wheel, and added a Jetpack to the inside so we will have Wifi where ever we roam. Lawman also had to make an upgrade. 

As fancy and well built as Serendipity is, the bathroom vent cover was a made from a very thin piece of plastic that cracked the first wind storm that came along. Lawman ordered a new high speed vent cover and installed it.

It was a pretty quick fix, now we're ready to roll. Our first trip is in a couple of weeks. 

This time of year is also garden season. We knew it was time to start getting seeds in the ground, so Lawman brought the tiller to the house to get it ready. We seemed to have a problem with running over the lines we use to lay off our rows?

After clearing the tines, we got it out in the dirt.

We already had onions and cabbage in, now it was time for beans and corn. After we got the seeds in at the house, we went over to the garden by the barn to do even more corn and beans. While we were working up the rows, the tiller stopped pulling. We found a pin had come out of the tire/axle. Three generations of great minds went to work to fix it.

Lawman identified the problem, Pop did the machine work on the pin to make it fit back into the axle, and The Boy got the pin back in place, so we could not only finish the beans and corn, but we also got three rows of potatoes in. The Boy was instrumental in laying off the rows so the old people could plant and cover.

Old school

While Jake was laying off the rows, Lawman and Pop took turns with the tiller. Many hands make quick work.

After five hours of gardening, we put away all the tools and headed back to The Acre. Lawman made a home made pizza for dinner.

The boy is a cheese and pepperoni kind of guy, Lawman and Cupcake like onions and garlic and whatnot, so we did a half and half. Lawman experimented with whole wheat flour for the crust. It was different but not bad at all. While Lawman was doing the pie, Cupcake made a batch of blueberry muffins.

We're afraid our weekend naps may have come to an end for a while, but we enjoy the garden, so it's a good trade off. 

K&K