Father's Day

 We celebrated father's day this week. Maybe you did too? We don't know. 

Last week, Cupcake saw a man wearing a shirt at the local grocery store that she had to have. She searched the interwebs and found the business that sells the shirt and ordered one for Lawman. She also picked up a drink tumbler for herself.

Pop asked for a dogwood tree a while back, and we thought it would make a nice father's day gift. We found one and gifted it to him after our weekly biscuits and gravy breakfast. We struck on the idea of putting Denephew to work digging the hole. It worked out really well.

After Henry got the hole dug, we set the tree and let him finish the planting.

After we got the tree planted, Pop gave the roots a good soak.

After we got the tree planted, we went to work at the barn garden, staking up the tomato plants.

And after a long day working in the sun, we sat on the front porch and enjoyed a couple of throwback soda pops.

You may have noticed the jar of pickles? If you didn't, look again. Between Sunday breakfast and dogwood tree planting, we made our first batch of sweet pickles.

Cupcake used her new snowflake jars. She found a large collection of them at the Radford Food City, and recently they've had the jars on clearance, Clarence. And one thing we love more than pickles, is a bargain.

It's the first of many, we promise.

Earlier in the week, we had a request for a few pies. Lawman cut out a day and set it aside for pie baking. He started off with scratch made shells.

For the choco pie, Lawman got to use his new tool, pie weights. 

Then he moved on to the buttermilk pies.

Lawman also made a batch of banana nut bread cookies.

One of our favorite times of the year is fruit picking time. The cherry tree is full of fruit this year.

We're also getting a steady flow of black raspberries and blueberries.

We didn't get our weekend naps in this week, but we did have a soda pop on the porch, so we'll call it a wash this week.

K&K