Rub my Belly

 We've had quite the run of weather this week. Maybe you did too? We don't know. 

The lead off picture this week is Willow hamming it up for a belly rub. 

Early on in the week, Lawman put the brush blade on the weed wacker and cleared off the spot we picked for our pear corner in front of the Bitch Barn. After he got the undergrowth cleared, he planted both pear trees.

The pear trees started to "put out" already, which may be a bad thing after the weekend cold snap.

As the week turned rainy, Lawman butchered some meat. We bought a couple of slabs of NY strip, so he sliced one up into individual steaks and did his prep work to make them 'cut with a fork' tender. 

It made sixteen steaks, so that's eight 'steak and tater nite' meals in the pipeline. 

Speaking of, Cupcake put her own twist on the 'tater' part Saturday night, and it was delish.

It looked as good as it tasted.

On top of S/T night, we did a bit of prep work Saturday for Sunday morning breakfast. Cupcake wanted deer tenderloin gravy. And what Cupcake wants, Cupcake gets.

And a blast from the past, Lawman decided to put that big ol griddle to good use and make English Muffins for breakfast Sunday morning. Some of you may remember from a couple of years ago, Lawman got on an English muffin kick, and would cook them in a cast iron skillet, two at a time. Now we have the Blackstone, so he could do a whole batch at once. And none of that "crazy granny" store bought muffins, from scratch.

After he got them cut out, he covered them and left them out in the garage overnight. Sunday morning he used the proof setting on the new stove, and let them rise for an hour, then on to the griddle.

We love being able to do an entire meal all at once, even in the snow

We ended the week with naps, steak sandwiches and belly rubs.

K&K