OK, We may have a Problem

 We did something new this week. We bought more chickens. We're beginning to think we may have a slight chicken addiction?

We have a coyote picking off our adult guinea birds. We're guessing he's smarter than the average coyote since he's taking out our early warning system. So we bought a baker's dozen of keets to raise up with our new chicks. We also threw in a half dozen ringneck pheasants. This will be our first attempt at pheasants.

We did some repair work this week also. First off, Brother Kevin had a couple of his scouts over at the garage working on his race car project. We took our trailer over to have the youngsters do some welding for us. The trailer had a sag in the rear of the trailer where the lawn mower tires rest.

Denise Haley wasn't going to be outdone. She suited up and threw a pro bead on the trailer.

Then a couple of days later, Lawman noticed a puddle of oil under the 4 wheeler. Closer examination found a busted oil line. A trip to the hose house in town got us up and running in a couple of hours.

The Boy and the Girl-in-Law went out to Sinkland farms to see the sunflowers this week, but the sunflowers hadn't bloomed yet. They could have saved their money and just walked over to the barn. Ours are wide open.

They're quite the cute couple. They even bought matching shoes.

Garden things are jumping off. Our cucumbers are coming in pretty steady now and that means it's pickle season.

Three batches of sweet pickles and one batch of dill pickles are now hidden somewhere in the house. And while we're taking about hiding jars of food, we also picked a big bowl of blackberries. They went straight from the vine to the jelly jar.

Cupcake has threatened bodily harm if a jar goes missing. We'll probably pick another batch and make some more jelly this coming week, just to save injuries. 

We used some of the early picked blackberries when we didn't have enough for jelly, and added in some fresh picked rhubarb to make a blackberry/rhubarb pie.

Two new dishes this week.

First, we saw Captain Christopher Pike using a cast iron skillet to make a pasta dish called 'sketti momma' and it looked pretty simple, so we tried it. 

Cupcake found a recipe for a quiche, but she needed a pie crust. Lucky for us, Lawman has mastered pie crust.

And since he was making a pie crust, and the rhubarb/blackberry pie was gone, he went ahead and made another pie crust and whipped up a pecan pie for the coming week.

And last but not least, it's Cupcake's favorite time of the year. Fried green tomato season.

We ended the week with full bellies and naps.

K&K