Eye, Zombie

 Lawman had a mishap this week. We'll give you a moment to digest that.....

One night, when taking the DT's on their pre-bedtime run, a gnat flew into Lawman's eye. He thought he got it out, and went on with is nightly routine. He did not get it out, apparently.

So Cupcake, as is tradition, drove him to the Med-Express to get it doctored on. 

While he was healing up, he still had to mow the cemetery and our yard, then till out the garden so as to keep on top of the weeds and whatnot.

We caught a picture of Augustus as he's about to enter the speed force.

We bought a bunch of whipping cream on the cheap a week or so ago, and we noticed that the use by date was past, so we whipped up three batches of butter and froze it.

And what's fresh butter without homemade english muffins to put it on?

We ended the week with a couple of naps, and Cupcake's soon to be world famous lasagna.

Next week we are going to have a huge announcement to make. As 45 would say..."YUUUGE"

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K&K

Entertaining

 We have an annual tradition of the biker boys from the People's Republic driving down and spending a day at The Acre. This week was that week. Lawman adopted the ST look and wore his bear hat for the commemorative photograph. JBMC has yet to bow to social pressure.

The big hit each year is always carrot cake. We like to give the people what they want.

ST shared his idea of BBQ sammich makings.

Other stuff going on this week. We had to keep the garden going, now that we've got it in. Hauling water was this weeks big job.

And there is always trying to stay on top of the weeds. 

And, we have a new visitor. We've not yet lost any birds, but Lawman has someone to outsmart now. He says it's personal now.

After the boys rolled out Sunday morning, we grabbed a quick nap and then had a Mother's Day dinner with The Girl and boy-in-law. 

K&K

 

Berry Busy

 We had a pretty busy week this week. Come the weekend, we were invited to a celebration for a young lady who just got her doctorate. We hobnobbed for a couple of hours, it was nice to get out. We don't get out much. 

Cupcake got her first strawberry from our planter out back.

A second baby chick hatched, so we have two now.

We've been waiting to get the rest of the garden in, and we caught a break in rain and mowing. We got both gardens planted, with beans making up most of the garden at the house.

The barn garden we got our tomatoes in. Only 200 or so plants this year, we tried to scale back a little.

Besides tomatoes, we got in our jalapeno peppers, egg plant and some asparagus that we started a couple of months ago. 

We ended the week with a long nap and some ibuprofen.

K&K

Its a Miracile

 We added new life to The Acre this week. Three weeks ago we had two birds go broody, so we took that days egg supply and marked them and let the girls do their thing. Thorsday we found one bird hatched. We brought it up to the house and put it in the baby bird tub. The Boy came home from a 24 hour shift the next day and saw the bird, came in the house and asked "Rural King charging so much for chicks that you can only afford one at a time?" 

In other life related news, the miracle mushrooms popped up this week. We got two inches of rain the day after we got our garden plants planted, and the next day we found miracle mushrooms popping up everywhere. A normal harvest of mushrooms is one here, one there, but this time we found dozens at one spot. We only picked what we could eat and left the rest. We seeded them down around our ponds two years ago, this year they took off. We hope that if we leave some, they will come back next year even stronger. We will report our results.

Cupcake found a pint of super ripe local strawberries, so she bought a pint and made a batch of strawberry syrup for pancake Saturday.

And whats fresh syrup without fresh butter to go with it?

Cupcake requested another batch of whole wheat english muffins, and what Cupcake wants, Cupcake gets.

One thing we pride ourselves on is not wasting anything if we can help it. This week we had one leftover porkchop, two fried chicken thighs, a pint of sketti sauce and some fresh mushrooms that were getting close to not being so fresh. Lawman whipped up a "leftover pizza" for dinner one night, that fed us for two nights. 

We ended the week with a steak gifted from the neighbors, fried mushrooms and two really good naps.

K&K

So Much Promise

 Lawman always says "There's nothing like the promise of a new garden."

Our neighbor hooked us up with his tiller, so now we're ready to get the '23 garden season underway.

Acre garden

Expert supervision

Barn garden

It's calling for a hard freeze the next couple of nights, then rain for a few days. Our plan is one week away from planting.

Non planting stuff this week was kind of limited, but we did make a fresh batch of english muffins. This time around, we didn't pre make the dough, we went fresh dough to the griddle. We did let it rise in the oven for a bit before we cooked them up.

Scratch made wheat flour dough

The rise

The cook

These turned out right

We tried the new muffins as hamburger buns again, this is the way.

Saturday it rained, Sunday we mowed. We still managed a couple of naps.

K&K

Eggcellent

 Kind of a slow week news wise at The Acre. Starting off, we glassed a few dozen fresh eggs for storage.

We've been baking at least one loaf of fresh bread every week, but this week, Cupcake requested english muffins. And what Cupcake wants, Cupcake gets. A few years ago, we made them for a while, but it took over an hour to get them all cooked, because we could only do one or two at a time in a cast iron skillet. Since we've upgraded to the Blackstone, we've got a great big cast iron cook surface. Let the muffins roll.

Since we've been baking whole wheat bread, we decided to try whole wheat muffins. The recipe called for letting them rest in the fridge overnight before cooking. We followed the directions, and the dough turned out like sugar cookies. In appearance, anyway. 

They turned out OK, but next time we're going to go straight to the cook top. They also made great hamburger buns.

And you can't have fresh made, toasted muffins without home made whipped butter. 

We tell ourselves that our butter is healthier than store bought, so we use quite a bit of it.

On Sunday we took our first batch of marigolds that we started from seed, and ran them up to the family cemetery to spruce up the family stones.

We planted around the grandparents stone, and Aunt Clara and Louise's stone. It will look better when the flowers bloom.

We ended the week with a couple of naps.

K&K