Out with the Old

 We celebrated the 4th yesterday. Because we're old and need a day to recover from any shenanigans. Not that we have any shenanigans, we were all packed back up and had everyone gone by 1900hrs. We were born to be mild.

But starting off the week we had to make some repairs around The Acre. Lawman was cruising through the bedroom one day, and since it was a little warm outside, he decided to up the speed on the bedroom ceiling fan. But, his massively over developed delts ripped the switch cord from the fan, leaving it in the "off" position. 

Cupcake said that just wouldn't do, so we drove to the local hardware shop and picked up a new fan. 

Lawman broke out his wire kit and had the new fan up in under an hour. No blood, no fires, and not one single tool thrown to the end of the driveway (we're looking at you, Outlaw).

Other fix it things this week, we got out and started painting the trim around our windows and staining the steps. We worked on the shaded side of the house. We'll work on the back of the house next week after work when the shade is out back.

We found a recipe for drunken collard greens and since we have a garden full of collard greens, we made a batch. 

We had no leftovers.

Our basil started getting so big we had to cut it back. We strung it up to dry to use later. 

It shouldn't be much longer before our tomatoes start coming in. We've already got a few off the back porch.

And our first cucumbers of the year came in. So we've switched from mint water to cucumber and basil water.

And we have had cucumber and onions for dinner each night.

Lawman did a little baking. He made a pound cake and a batch of choco cookies.

And Cupcake made her grandmother's recipe for chopped steak one night.

That brought us to Sunday. We pretended to camp except for the camp fire. It was warm enough without a fire.

We ended the week with a hootinanny. Until 7ish, then everyone had to be gone.

K&K