WE ARE GRANDPARENTS!!

 Yes, new life has been brought into our world. Chief Walters and "The Girl-in-Law" adopted a new puppy this week. They've named her "Ember" and she is a bouncing baby furball. Everyone is excited, except for Augustus and Willow. Them? Not so much.

The next day, the girl and "The Boy-in-Law" came out to celebrate his birthday a couple of days early. A request was made for Lawman's soon to be famous choco cake and boiled custard. 

The Outlaw's favorite. It's a shame he's batshit crazy

None of that crazy granny cake box mix, all scratch

And speaking of cake, both of us had grandparents who used the round cake pans with the lever to release the cake from them. Both of us lost track of where they got off to, so we scoured the antique shops and found these. They're not family, but they're going to get a lot of use soon. We promise.

After the celebration, the kiddo's wanted to get in a little trigger time, so we set up a 'spot' and we peeled some caps.

After the girl shot her pistol, we broke out the 1911 and her eyes lit up. She sure does love the big frame handguns.

The old man going old school MP

Earlier in the week, the weather broke, so Lawman cleaned up some downed tree limbs from the DT's running path and we got a little fire pit fuel to boot.

Food related stuff for the week was busy as well. Cupcake felt like baking some muffins, and not those in the box, crazy granny muffins either. Old school scratch made.

Lawman doctored up the first batch of steaks that our neighbor gifted us a while back. We fried the jimmies up Saturday night.

The wheat bread that we've been making is going so well, we tried to go all hippie and add oats to the top before baking. We liked it.

To end this weeks update, we have fruit trees starting to bloom. It's too early we think. Maybe with a little luck the blooms will fruit out and frost won't kill them off, but we're afraid we've got at least one good freeze left before mother nature gives up on winter.

We ended the week with  baked sketti, choco cake, boiled custard, and naps.

K&K