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Farm Update ~ Winter into Spring ~ 2018
At the end of last summer, an eighty something row crop farmer told my farmer, "Well, I made it through another year!" We felt a little the same way, having completed the hay season. The last day...
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Hot, Dry Farm Work
Everyone complained about how cool April was and then how fast the hot weather came in May. Well, here we are in June, expected to be hot and humid, and everything is dry. Perfect weather for cutting...
View ArticleA New Chapter in My Life
Yesterday I started a new chapter in my life. I became great grandmother to a 7lb 4oz baby girl, Emalyn Claire. I haven't seen her yet, only a picture right after her birth. Of course she's...
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Weary
Today I'm feeling weary; blog weary. It has reached the point where I don't seem to be able to come up with any subjects of interest to anyone. Oh, there are the faithful few who comment each time I...
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The Year 2016
When the year 2016 began, I thought it would be interesting to keep a calendar record of the days we had chickens. I marked off each week with a colored marker and this was the result: Overall it was...
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Pictures and Cameras
This week I have started a project of scanning old pictures from albums: the kind of albums with sticky pages and plastic coverings. Over the years, most of the coverings have come lose and many of...
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Using a New Quilt
Yesterday morning the temperature was 15* ~ brr-rr! Time to put the best flannel sheets on the bed for sure. I'd been putting a throw and an afghan over my light weight quilt at night and then each...
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Article 22
With all that's going on in the news these days, I thought this was just the thing to start your day with a chuckle: This was taken from The BACK FORTY Calendar, 2015, by Lex Graham, and distributed by...
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Article 21
My effort to empty a few boxes of scraps continues. The piecing on this projectcame to a halt whenever all the black fabric had been used. I have 190 blocks pieced and will need several more. So I...
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Article 20
MERRY CHRISTMASand a Happy New Year to my blogging friends! Thank you so much for the kind words you have left in your comments. The past three years I have chosen projects to make each month: doll...
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Flying Geese Quilt Top
I believe this year is following in the footsteps of last year, for here it is the middle of January already! How can we slow it down? And how we wish for some days with sunshine after a month of...
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Winter Pastime
You all know how much I love to work jigsaw puzzles. It's just a natural thing for me to do after the stress of December, the dreary sunless days, and long nights between supper and bedtime. The...
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Drab
seems to be the perfect descriptive word for the month of February and the beginning of March. Can't even see the mountains (this is just a hill) and I think I've only seen the moon two times since...
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Article 15
Remember these blocks?These, with many more blocks, are what they have become:a big, colorful quilt top. The scrap pile seems no smaller ~ sigh ~ Most points matched up perfectly which made me happy....
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Isabelle
I want you to meet Isabelle, my American Girl doll ~This is how she came to live with me: Our children and grandchildren were all here at Christmas for lunch. When we had finished eating, they put...
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A Splendid Gift . . .
came in the mail today. Sherri (www.littlecabincreations.blogspot.com) read my post about Isabelle and my intentions to sew for her. She left a comment that she had two new patterns she would like...
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Current Project
A blogging friend asked me to show the current project I have going. I found this pattern in the April, l999 (issue 37) American Patchwork & Quilting magazine. Since it's a paper pieced project...
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A Repost: Standing the Test of Time
Forty four years ago we moved onto our own land, ten acres, with plans to build a new house. The Farmer was just finishing work on his doctorate at the university, and after feeling more or less as a...
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Article 10
Two weeks ago, our older grandson got married. This was the place they chose for the wedding,on top of a bluff! The trail going down to the spot they had picked, was so steep that a man stretched a...
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Summer ~ 2015
In spite of a slow start, due to so much rain, we've had a busy and productive summer, and it goes on.This has been the view from the back window of my office tractor several days this summer. I've...
View ArticleMouse in the House
As quick as the blink of an eyesomething seemed to fly by!Eek!!There's a mouse in the house!I must set a trap!And for sheer easeI'll bait it with cheese;but now I'm wondering,which will he like...
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Farm Update ~spring 2016
Recently I heard a song, Fall Away, which made an impression on me. These are some of the words: "...when you're happy the years fall away, but when you're blue, days go by 'a draggin..." I must be...
View ArticleMystery Solved
Ilene, aka therockwhisperer, identified the plant as an amaranth, the species being Love Lies Bleeding. She said she has been trying for years to get one started. And here I have cut the plants down!...
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BOO !!!
A Halloween pepper from the garden! Isn't he perfectly suited for this day!A frost is supposed to happen tonight, so yesterday I gathered what I could from the garden: okra, green sweet peppers, peas...
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The Flat Stanley Project
Are you familiar with Flat Stanley? I wasn't until my daughter, a fourth grade language arts teacher, told me about the Flat Stanley project her class would be doing this month. I thought it was just...
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