Monday, March 4, 2024

Time Marches On. lol

 Yep, here we are in March again. Wasn't it just March 2023?

We will be ordering new chickens in a week or two. Also going to do Cornish X-Rocks for meat birds maybe a couple of turkeys as well. The neighbor wants some as well and raise them with ours for a while as he doesn't have a place for them.

We have to get the barn areas ready for them first. Lay down pine shavings, and set up the feeders and etc. It means lots of trips to the barn for a few weeks but it's always nice in the end.

We have had snow, cold, warm ups, mud, then cold, snow, sleet, rain, and then it starts over again.

Last small snow fall and the creek is running.

After 30 years we had to replace our dryer. Didn't like the cost but it is needed for certain times of the year. Oh well.

Did a lot of sewing last week. Cloth wallets.




Aprons, already sent off to a daughter.






Tuesday, February 20, 2024

February Almost Gone

It seems is never takes long for a month to fly by.

The weather can't seem to make up it's mind. We are melting again. It was like his last time we had a El Nino winter. Back to mud. lol. It will be in the 40's all the rest of this week yet and then by Monday back to low 30's and snowing again.

Not much going on at this time of year that's for sure. We're doing family history, normal chores and sewing. 

I just got my new book up on Amazon.com

Silver What Was, What is

Kindle

Paperback


Both can be seen on the same Amazon page and links are on the right top of the page for either one.

The price went up last time I put up my short story, so books are a little more expensive then they used to be. What isn't it seems.





Monday, January 8, 2024

Blizzard Time.

 Yep, we're in the middle of a blizzard right now this PM. Only tomorrow is supposed to be even worse with 55 mph wind gusts. Good thing we don't have to go anywhere until Wednesday. Well, I don't but hubby does on Wednesday. Thursday is also a going to the valley day.

On this past Sunday I found that the pipe that connects to the double sink on the left side had come off. We had plastic containers under there to hold cleaners and so on so that caught most of the water, thank goodness.

We've ben working on family history as normal for us and for a distant cousin that popped up and needed help.

I've been sewing, knitting and writing. I do that in between household chores and other things.

Adult two pocket aprons

                                                   Adult
                                             Childs Apron
                                               Child hat
                             Simple twin bed quilts with left overs still need backing.








Friday, December 29, 2023

Oh Boy, Almost 2024

Man alive I have really been slipping up on keeping up here.

It has just been one thing after another. The world doesn't stop because I want to do something else, lol.

My 42 year old sewing machine had about the only piece of plastic in the whole thing some kind of washer fall out when I opened the left side door and it clunked more when sewing. It is a New Home bought it in MO. in 1981 and they were made in America then. Before they were sold to Japan. We order a Janome as that is what they became. Learned the company had been sold to one in Taiwan. We had to send it back as it was not what it cracked up to be anymore that's for sure. :( Disappointing.

We went back to hunting for a good machine and ended up looking at Husqvarna Vikings. I am trying one out. I didn't even know they made sewing machines. My dad had Husqvarna chain saws for years working in the woods. They are Swedish but assembled in China, the only thing I didn't like. I have been sewing on for 2 weeks, so far so good.

The weather has been crazy, like the L'Nino weather in 2006 to 2007 winter. Cold, snow, warm, ice, rain cold, ice, rain, snow, warm. lol. Back to cold I hear in the middle of Jan.


After the snow melted we had quests.
Thanksgiving was at J and J's as normal. We took a ham, jello, and 2 pies. It is not a hardship on anyone to have everyone bring something. We all volunteers something and then the holes are filled in. We rally miss those that didn't come. It was nice to see so many of the adult kids grands and great grands. It was great to see in laws of J's. 

A son D and his son A came for Christmas weekend. Daughter T was supposed to come Monday but a flat tire happened so she came Tue. :)

We also had the Manger scene up, odd Christmas decor. and 3 snowmen that you set small tea candles in to glow :).






We had to get a new fridge :( but found one on clearance because of damage on the right door, :) it is a side by side. Big deal.

Then the doors had to be taken off on the old one and anything else sticking out, ack. The doors it had to go out were 31 1/2 and 31 with the doors on. So, doors were taken off and we just barely scrapped out onto the deck with it. Take the fridge and freezer doors off the new one and get it inside.

There was no getting it through the kitchen door as the stoppage would be that door and the back porch door are short and narrow. With a very short angle to get anything large in, no way. We even cut down the counter between the dining room and kitchen that former people had cut through the house wall and made the back porch the kitchen. Now that has to be kind of remade but makes for more room going through there.

Kitchen side you can see the boards from the outside of the original back porch. One can't just buy 2 tiles wither. We are going to piece in pieces from what we took off.








I managed to finish a short book called; I Lacked Vital Information. It is linked on the same page with it's paperback. Link to books


I just put away all the Christmas things last night, the containers only need to be taken to the barn now. Just the small tree box and 3 plastic containers.

We want to wish everyone a Happy New Year to come.



Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Sheeeshhhhhh

 I was going to do a post in the middle of October and ended up sick. Dh brought home a bad sinus cold type thing and I caught it from him about 2 or 3 days later. He is better but I tell he's not quite right yet when he has to be gone most of the day or tries to do to much here.

A lot of the family has been ill as well in all their different places, in and out of our state.

We had our first snows 5 to 7 days ago. Warmer this week with rain starting today. May mean freezing at night and ice in the mornings.




On the morning of the 9th of Oct. a good size bear scared our neighbors cattle and they plowed through their upper fence to get to the lower fields. It then went under our mutual fence in the upper pasture and tore a T post out of the ground and broke the cattle fencing away from another T post. It proceeded down to our lace and went through 2 fences letting our 3 visiting mules out. We don't know where the bear went out but it may have followed the mules out the driveway. We found them around 4 miles away visiting a horse at another farm.
Thank you Nancy for letting them stay and visit while we let the owners know they has escaped and gone walk about. Mrs. C came with her horse trailer and picked them up. They due to go home on Sat. anyway.
This is where they are in the mornings for their oat treat. To the east of thee back yard the day before.

On the way home I spotted 2 white turkeys with the rest of the flock at a neighbors. Not real good pics with my phone.


All take care and don't forget to have extra food, water and blankets on hand for cold weather if your electric goes down. A few games for the kids and etc. to.






Sunday, September 24, 2023

More Rain Coming and Work

 Lots of work being done and rain supposed to be on the way in Monday night. Not that we haven't needed it because we do. The rain a couple weeks ago was great.

We still have a ton to do both barn work and the garden with a bring in wood and so on.

Lots of beans picked and canned, we froze about 4 gallons. Yellow, green and dragons.


Supposed to be getting down in the 30's F. by the end of this coming week and we still have stuff in the garden that isn't quite ready yet.

Dh has been working hard trying to get the barn ready for winter. We have the east wall up, the door may be a tarp this winter. Also still needs flashing put up.





Both of the frost free hydrants have been replaced. The back yard one was here when we moved here in Sept. 2004 and dh kept adjusting it to get it to work but we finally realized it needed replaced.                

Back yard. At least it had a shut off on it.

We found broken concrete blocks as he dug a few inches under the sod.

Chicken yard. Digging old one up.

Leaking badly.
He had to dig a drainage ditch.
Putting a shut off valve on, it didn't have one and we had to turn off the water to the whole house twice. The first time when he dug it up to replace it. Then having to stop the leak and go get the parts needed to put on new parts and valve.
In and putting the rock and dirt back in.
Chickens helping, NOT!
Hydrant in and blocked off from the chickens digging around it in the loose dirt.

Picture of a spider web blowing in the wind off of the top of a lilac bush.