Big news around The Acre this week. Chief Walters and his girlfriend bought a house together. They closed on it over the weekend, so a lot of pictures are sure to follow. They want to do some painting and whatnot to make it their own before they move in full time. But proud of them, we all are.
They already have spots picked out for a garden and a chicken coop, and there's plenty of back yard for Ember to run and jump and play. Updates as they become available.
Speaking of gardens, Lawman borrowed Pop's tractor. We swapped out the blade for the plow and he went to work.
After he got the barn garden squared away, we went to work on the garden behind the house.
After we got the gardens plowed up, we dumped a load of dirt and potting soil in Cupcake's new planter that "The boy-in-law" gave her for Christmas, and she planted some strawberry plants.
Just in time for our first, and probably only, snow storm.
Another farm related thing we had going this week, we bought a flat of strawberries from the Auburn FFA. Cupcake requested more strawberry jelly. And what Cupcake wants, Cupcake gets.
What's fresh jelly without home baked bread?
And if you have fresh baked bread, you have to have homemade butter to smear it with, right?
Lawman made two batches. The first batch he made 'smoked butter' by using smoked salt. He also drained off the buttermilk and saved it for biscuits and whatnot.
The second batch, Cupcake came along as the butter was just starting to whip up, and she requested a batch of whipped butter. See above for Cupcake and what she wants.
We glassed two quarts of fresh eggs.
We bought the dogs another batch of pig ears. They were very excited.
And lastly, Cupcake has been wanting to try home made fajitas. Lawman made a batch of dough, rolled them out and cooked them on the Blackstone along with fajita fixings. If you have the means, you really should pick one up. They're so choice.
We ended the week napping while it snowed and making plans to walk around naked when CW moves in to his new house full time. Y'all might want to call before you pop in The Acre.
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