DONE!!!

Well, the 30's pinwheel quilt is done. Binding sewn on, loose threads snipped.

Not my best quilting job - not my worst. The borders have just a couple waves in them. Don't know what I did (and at this point, I really don't care:))

Now I just have to drop it off at the fairgrounds before 9:30 tomorrow morning. And put Tyler on the bus for his last first day of preschool.

Kris

Chicken wranglers

We got the chicken run ready for them to go out....




And none of them would go out. So we toss them all outside - they run back in. Tyler and Jessie toss them out. They run back in. This has been repeated for several days. Tyler and Jessie are getting to be old pros at moving them around, at least.


Finally, this morning, after a week, the older ones walked out on their own when Tyler opened the door.....

I'm hoping they are just unsure ...

Happy Labor Day

I feel like all I did was work this weekend - but we actually had a really, really good weekend!





Tyler and Jessie both had soccer games - and can I just brag a little - Todd and I were there for both games - and we lost track of the goals that Tyler scored when he hit 6 goals - I think there were 4 or 5 after that! He was a scoring machine on Saturday!!! Jessie did very well - had some good passes - and she was able to run fairly well!!:






He has another game tonight - which he is super pumped for already!




My 2nd water garden pond was dug (we still need to put stone around the edges, but....it's dug):








The 2 feeder calves that are going to the fair were clipped:







We went and brought these 3 heifers Monday afternoon at a private treaty auction:






My quilt for the fair is DONE! except for the binding, which will go on this afternoon once I get some green thread that matches the backing. I'll post a picture of it tonight. I'm not totally in love with this quilt - the colors are awfully bright to my way of thinking, but I'm very happy with it.

Fair starts Saturday, but we will be down there Thursday and Friday as well decorating and moving in. And Todd gets to be the sheep man this year too - the girls also have sheep, and their father works for our local electric company and he got called down to Louisiana to work for 2 weeks, so he'll be missing fair. Todd was groaning about having to help haul in their sheep and help them get ready to show - but I think he's going to have fun with this. It will be good practice for him for next year, really.

See ya,
Kris

What a week

I've been working like a maniac on this quilt - it will be done by Sunday!

These pictures were taken a couple days ago. I have just 1 corner left to quilt, and I'm stopping on my way home to find some binding fabric.

I've been running here and there - soccer practice, 4-H, walking calves. The camper that we borrowed to use at the County Fair next week - needed a new tongue jack. So I had to drive 40 min. away to Akron to pick one up. At least Tyler and I got to stop at my Mom's and see her for a little bit.

And we have finally gotten some rain. Not enough, but a start. So I'm sure my garden is overflowing with peppers and more tomatoes. Never fear though - I'm going to be running the dehydrator full tilt this weekend drying onions, garlic, tomatoes and the various peppers. I'm tired of canning, tired of freezing (although another batch of tomato sauce would be nice!).

See ya,

Kris

Everyday Blessings

Monday I was bored.

So I painted my bathroom:

This isn't the greatest picture - it's got more of a gold tint to the paint. Tyler rolled the bottom half of the walls and I did the top half and the edging. Now it's put the molding and trim back up and a new floor and it will feel like I have a new bathroom.

And I worked on this quilt some more:

And I found this cute star to hang on the chicken coop (although I am thinking I need a bigger one?):

And we have had soccer practice and 4-H. I saw this morning this tree changing color:


Fall will be here before we know it. Today it's chilly and rainy - but more the annoying drizzle. Off to make dinner before soccer practice - which hopefully they cancel due to the rain!


Kris

Quiet Weekends

This was one of those weekends....no where to go on a deadline (other than soccer pictures), nothing pressing that needed to be done, just the fun stuff - like watch the girls walk the calves.

And what did I do? Spent a lot of time cleaning. 3 rooms cleaned and sorted out - 3 to go (and unfortunately, 2 of the rooms are the messiest rooms in the house- hehe)

I'm about half done with the quilting on this quilt:

I just wasn't getting into it for some reason. And, quilting it with this pattern is a pain-in-the-you-know-what!:

But I'm getting there. I'm not doing the outer border with this pattern - I'll come up with something for it that will go a little quicker!

Hopefully by Wednesday or Thursday night I'll be starting to put the binding on this quilt - I have until September 4th to finish it - so I just might be ahead of the game!

New Window

I got this book the other day at the new junk store I found:






And then I saw this post on a primitive blog.


And so I turned my kitchen window from this:





to this:





Yes, crappy window, but we want to gut and redo our kitchen one of these years, and put a new window in - so for now, I'll live with it (and do you know how hard it is to take a picture of a window???). I think I like it. The best thing was, I didn't have to buy anything to put in this window - it was all stuff I had laying around the house.

Last night I picked yet another bushel of roma tomatos - although I have a friend who said she needs some romas as hers all bit the dust. Hopefully, she still wants them, as I really don't want to do anything with them right now. We have soccer pictures this morning, so I'll see her at some point then and with any luck, she'll take them.


Life is good.

Kris