And then there were 24

The hatchery where I get my chicks from - Meyer Hatchery - they are AWESOME!!

I got there today after work, and one of the hens I had ordered had a reaction to the Marecks vaccine, so they gave me a replacement chick (an Ameraucana) and didn't charge me for it, and then I got 25% off of any supplies I need (Todd asked me why I didn't get a crested hen as that is what I have been campaigning for, with limited success - but honestly, I didn't even think about getting one).

So I got a crate to put the babies in:

And a 4 gallon water font for the bigger chickies:

And our bigger chickies have been escaping to have the run of the whole buckeye barn - no wonder when they like to do the high wire act:

I think it's time for them to go outside some....

Well, I'm off to get dinner and try to do some sewing.

See ya,

Kris

Weekend Tidbits

Well, I had hoped to get some sewing in - but I spent several hours in my flowerbed and garden Saturday morning (when the thistles are taller than I am it is time to do something out there) - I was out there at 8:00 a.m. Saturday and came in when the heat got too bad at 11:00 - then I spent several hours cleaning my house - still not "clean" to my liking, but better. Then I went to a neighbor friends - their kids are the same age as Jessie and Tyler, and they are going on vacation so Jessie and I are bunny sitting. One thing led to another, we swapped kids for a few hours, and ended up eating dinner with them and going swimming last night from about 8-10.


Todd baled straw, we unloaded straw Saturday as well, then loaded some of it back up Sunday morning before church for my FIL to take some home for his donkeys. We spent all afternoon Sunday moving cows around, getting rid of our rent-an-Angus-bull, loaded up a steer to take to the butcher (since I am totally out of beef), went to a farm about 15 minutes south of us to look at heifers, and came home.


And my water garden has blooming water lilies:




2 blooms Saturday, 3 on Sunday. It looks a little wild in there - this weekend we are hoping to dig another pond - right now you cannot find the fish for all the vegetation in there.




The 3rd and final batch of chicks comes today - and the first 2 batches are growing amazingly fast. I think I can tell the roosters apart - there are 3 that have very definite combs compared to everyone else:




But - I'm planning on working on my 30's pinwheels this week - I've sent my registration in for our County Fair, so there is no backing out now. That and another picnic quilt for my Mom. And working on my seeing stars Quilt A Long Quilt.


See ya,
Kris

Whew. I think I'm back.

Okay - our week is over - but you know what? I would do it all over again in a heartbeat.

Jessie love, love, loved girl scout day camp. It helped also that she had 6 other friends from her troop there (but then again, she enjoyed it last year and she was the only one from her troop). It was funny - it was my job to pick them up most afternoons and ferry them all home - the first night they were wound - and each night got a little quieter until Friday night no one made a peep.

VBS was great - both kids liked it and are ready to go again. Water balloon fights (that our PASTOR initiated by taking water balloons into the sanctuary and getting the kids to run outside where he pelted them). Todd went with me 1 night to VBS - and about died watching all these kids run wild through the sanctuary. But as 1 lady told him - our church wants the kids to enjoy coming and participating. hmmm. I believe we belong to a very laid back church.

Tyler is in the green tshirt - Jessie in the pink tank top.

Of course, by the time I got home from dropping all the girls off, it was 4:30 usually, and we had to leave for VBS by 5:30 - so dinner was a LOT on the fly. For myself, I forget what dinner tastes like....maybe tonight.

I did find some time to do a little retail therapy - on my way to pick up the girls, I drove right by my favorite quilt shop - so of course, I had to stop and support the local economy, right? And they were having a Anniversary sale - 30% off of all fabric!






11 yards doesn't look like much, does it (she sells a LOT of fat 1/2's and a few fat 1/4's)? This will be made into a bagsket, pincushions, knitting needle holder and who knows what else.


We also did 4-H on Wednesday night - field trip to a local dairy - before VBS. Jessie was impressed, and came home asking if she could show a dairy calf next year at the fair. We'll have to work on that one....


And Todd decided to bale straw. Actually, we have friends that combined their wheat, and didn't want the straw - so it was ours for the baling. 14 big squares and 200 small squares. He arranged with a local farmer to bale the big squares for us - at $10 a bale to bale it, I'm happy.


Now this weekend it's clean my house, harvest some herbs to dry, work with the 2 calves going to our county fair (more Todd's job than mine), and do some sewing. This will seem relaxing after this week!
Kris

Week from %()#&%)(#

I may or may not be around this week in bloggyland - this week will be insane! I'll try and check in with ya'll, but....no promises here.

I work from 8-2 every day (and we are gearing up for our District Conference the last weekend in July, and guess who's job it is to get everything ready for that? - MINE), Jessie is at girl scout camp every day that is done at 3 each afternoon, so I run to the next town from work, pick her and 3 other girls up every day and run everyone home, and then Jessie and Tyler have Vacation Bible School every night this week from 6-8:30, Jessie has therapy tuesday and thursday from 4-5 or so, and the kids have 4-h tomorrow night at 5:30.

Can I cram anything else into this week? no wait, don't answer this.

I also want to thank everyone for their comments on both my give-away post and the Quilt to Finish for the Fair post - this post is 136 (I said I was not paying attention) and I am going to finish the Pinwheel Quilt for the fair, and, time permitting, my Seeing Stars quilt as well. We shall see. Jessie wants her Log Cabin quilt to go in as well, so .....

4 more weeks until school starts and then things may calm down......no wait, both kids are in fall soccer........

And the photo above - that's half of a table runner that I made oh about a year ago, and my Mom confiscated it for her house. I have enough to do another one for me - maybe someday....

OOPS

I just thought to look - and I am way over on 100 posts.

So, for my error, a give away is in the works. Haven't a clue what I will make the lucky person, but leave a comment before July 25th (on this post or any post after this one) and I will draw a name or 2 and make the lucky person(s) something.

Enjoy,
Kris

Weekend work

We (ahem, rather TODD) turned this:

(Asphalt grindings from a recent-road-resurfacing- around-the-corner-dirt-cheap-turned-into-barn-flooring to prevent a pond in the barn when it rains).

Into this:




Which we will stack our roundbales on once it is packed down (eventually the whole barn floor will be like this - no more mud).

And we finally got calves weaned, which I will post about later. And I worked out in my garden, and we had friends and Grandparents over for dinner both nights. But that has been it for the weekend.

And of course, it was so stinking hot, we had to do this as well:




Kris

A. Very. Important. Question.

A good quilty friend called me last night. Entries in the Quilting division are down for our County Fair coming up the middle of September (8 weeks away - at least she gave me plenty of time!).

Do I have anything I can enter?

I have this:

Patchwork Block of the Month

This:

Seeing Stars Quilt A Long

(for a finished version, click here)

Or this:

30's Pinwheels

Which one do you think??? Am I insane?


(And of course, none of them are finished yet - I do have the backing, batting and binding for the pinwheels - I'm just procrastinating on actually finishing it).


Leave me a comment or vote on the sidebar. Help me decide if I should stress myself out and do this, please!!

Kris