We say Goodbye

This is not something I would normally do. I'm not one who gets hung up on celebrity news, and gossip. But, sadly, the world has had to say goodbye to a wonderfully talented man. A man who many of us grew up watching, and loving. He was such a part of my childhood memories, that its truly like a part of my childhood has been lost. America will never have another friend like him. Goodbye Mr Williams, you will forever be missed.

Weekend Fun and more

Happy Monday!!! I hope you all had a great weekend!!! This weekend was the Rout 11 yard crawl. That's where there is a full weekend of yard sales that stretch across 3 states. We stayed here in Woodstock though. We went on Saturday, and found some fun stuff. My favorite find was a Bread Maker that I picked up for $3.00, and the best part is, it works!!! Frank found some guy stuff, oh, and I found a couple of Sammy Davis records.

Bella is doing great with the invisible fence!! She loves playing with her brothers. She will play and play, until she pretty much so comes in and drops. We are trying her again out of the crate at night. We are on night 3 with no accidents in the house. She loves to sleep in the bed with us. (Right now, she's laying on the giant dog pillow in the corner snoring.)

We have made a whole lot of soup over the last week. I didn't get any pictures of the beef soup, but we got 11 quarts of chicken soup and 21 quarts of beef soup. We have to call the coop to see when the guy is coming around that checks pressure cooker gauges. I have another pressure cooker that was given to us, that we haven't used. We need to get it a new ring, and get that gauge checked so we don't blow anybody or anything up.

Its looking like Ethel and Doris are both pregnant for sure!!! We still can't figure out how to palpate them. That's something that comes with practice from what I understand. Ethel is due the 21st, and then Doris is due the 22nd.  I'm not going to try to look ahead too far with Ginger, because of the false pregnancy she had the other month. Frank thinks that she is, and I'm thinking she is too, but, I'm going to wait. I'm going to give Ethel her nest box on Monday, I'll wait a little bit with Doris, because she likes to turn her nest box into a potty.

Hope everybody has a great week!!!!

Just a ramble

Sometimes I feel the need to ramble on. My Ramblings don't always make sense, and sometimes they do. I have moments when my brain is just so full of everything that I have no way to get it all out without everything just seeming jumbled. 

In all reality I should be upstairs in my sewing room working on the quilts, but I'm sitting here in the living room, listening to my husband in the bedroom sleeping. I am in all honesty the only living being in the house awake at the moment. Bella is in there with him sleeping. Sam and Jasper are here in the living room sound asleep. Jasper is gently snoring. Sometimes I just need to enjoy these most peaceful moments. Its not always this peaceful. There is always something that needs to be done, cleaned, gathered, washed, put away, etc...its just part of the life we have chosen I suppose. 

We are getting between 15 and 19 eggs a day right now. I have 3 full 18 packs, and 3 full 12 packs of eggs in the fridge right now. My mom is coming to pick up some eggs later on today. I volunteered to take them to her, but I think she just wants out of the house for a bit.  I'm thinking that this fall, we need to butcher some of our layers. We can just can the meat instead of freezing it. 

Getting ready for winter is a big priority this summer. I think we are a bit worried about what this winter will bring. Its so hard to tell the way the weather has been these past couple of years. One thing is for sure, we won't have to do much in the way of grocery shopping. 

alright, ramble is over, I have a few emails to answer, and then I should get to that quilting.

Have a great day!!!

Canned Soup

So, Monday morning we had to butcher a couple of our older Chickens. They turned egg eaters. That's never a good thing, so as you can imagine we are holding our breath hoping that nobody else is going to turn egg eater. Frank went ahead and just skinned them, and we threw them directly into the pot and cooked them down and off of the bone.  And then we turned all of that into soup, which we canned. We got 11 quarts out of that. This weekend we are going to make beef soup to can and put away for the winter.

My Easter Egg chickens that we got back in the spring should be about ready to start laying anytime now!! I'm so ready to see just what color eggs they will give us. The wait is getting kind of hard. I feel like a kid in a candy shop.

In the last picture here, are 2 of the 7 roosters from our last hatching. They are really quite pretty, but will be future soup. I think they need a couple more months to get some size on them, but I'm not sure they will get too much bigger than this.

Chicken Pics

As you can see, we are all mostly grown up now!!! Its hard to believe that they go from chick to full grown layers in a matter of just a few months!!!

Giant Egg and Quilt lay out

One of my girls gave me a rather large egg this morning. I almost feel for the poor girl that laid it. That doesn't look like it felt too good.

I got one of the quilt rings laid out this morning. I was going to sew it together, BUT I couldn't figure out how to change the foot on my sewing machine. I'm taking it to the shop where I got it from so that they can show me how that's done. I could do it by hand, but I'm not a hand sewer. Once all of the pieces are sewn together, they will fit on the melon, right now it just doesn't look like it will.

getting stuff done

I got all of the "melons" cut for the Double Wedding Ring quilt tonight. Tomorrow I plan on starting some sewing on that. But since I was pretty much so done with the cutting for my current quilt project, I decided that I need to do a little bit of a quick clean up in the sewing room. (Its going to take a lot more than What I've done, but it will be alright for now) I found these quilt squares that have been floating around for a while. they don't really match anything, so I was like hey, I can make some quick throw pillows. I can brighten up the living room a bit, and do something with these squares. So, that's what I did, and now I'm out of stuffing!!! (Ah well, I can always get more, its not expensive) Sam decided that he approved right away.

I decided that I had to snap a couple of pictures of Pinkerton. He really is quite the character. He greets me every morning standing up. I don't know if its me he wants, or the treats... (I'm going to guess the treats). I just love his little mouth. I do hope however that he decides to sleep tonight, rather than running laps all night that makes it sound like the cage is going to bust apart. Once they get moving, they really move!!!

I had bought some Fabric to use as filler in one of my quilt projects that I have coming up. That's why I had bought a few random Fat Quarter Squares, and packs. I love the looks of them so much, that I have an idea for another project all together. I'm thinking about making either a baby quilt, or a charm square quilt. I love the fabric so much, that I just want to make something using just that fabric!!! As you know, I'll post pictures as I go!!!

I'll make sure you all get to see some pictures of whatever it is I manage to get done tomorrow  with the quilt!!!