Today is Pop's 80th birthday, the family all got together last night to celebrate over a meal, and we made sure to have the staff give a Latino version of "Happy Birthday"
The rest of the week seemed to involve trees one way or another. Early in the week it was warm, so Lawman got started on cleaning up the branches from our helicopter trim job we reported on last year. It was neat to watch, but they left the limbs for the land owner to clean up. Lucky for us, the brush pile in the pond had settled, so it needed fresh brush. We killed two birds with one stone.
Then it got cold and windy, which brought down a tree at the family cemetery. The down tree blocked the road leading in, so we had to get that cleaned up ASAP.
The trunk was so heavy it broke our tow strap. But Lawman said he's had it for 30 years, he figures he got his money's worth out of it before it gave up the ghost.
Non tree related things for the week involved egg preserving.
If you've never had ducks, allow us to give you a crash course in duck egg 101. If you need eggs, they won't lay. If you have too many eggs, they go nuts laying eggs. Over the holidays we needed eggs, and the rotten birds stopped laying, so our baking suffered. Now that baking season is over, we've got duck eggs coming out of our ears. We found a solution that we are giving a try. Lime water.
The interwebs say if you cover fresh eggs with lime water, they will keep in a jar for two years. So we've started doing a two quart jar every week of duck eggs for use this coming holiday season. We look forward to reporting our results.
Mother nature threw her last (we hope) temper tantrum this week, going from hot to cold to snow to warm again. Maybe you had crazy weather too? We don't know.
Since we got snow on Saturday, Cupcake called an audible on 'steak and tater night' and made a big pot of chili beans instead. Lawman will never turn down a bowl of her chili beans.
And that brings us back to ending the week by celebrating Pop's birthday Sunday night.
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