Category Archive: farming
9 patches for Ringo lake
Here are 25 of the 9 patches for ” Ringo Lake”. This is half of the first step for the Bonnie Hunter mystery. She has now published the 4th step and this will roll over into the new year, so I should be okay – well I would have been, but then
I got a call last night from this fellow. “Mom, can you and Dad come down on Dec 29. We have things worked out so we can have a civil wedding before this year ends and have the big wedding in April (so her relatives from Armenia have time to get passports). So, this morning, I was on the phone with the airlines. Yes, I have a ticket. DH didn’t feel up to this trip. So I will take off next week from blogging and work on the finances and the trip.
Yes, they get fed daily and still think they are starving to death. They can’t wait for me to get it over to the feeder. It’s getting colder here, maybe that’s why they are always hungry. I hope all of you are staying warm.
Ram and new quilts
This hole was put into this new piece of plywood by this
ram head. He managed to get the hole large enough by ramming it to fit that whole head including the horns through it. The neighbors asked what the sound coming from our barn in the middle of the night was and we didn’t know. They said it sounded like firecrackers or a gun and repetitively sounded 4 times. It was across the driveway from the barn, but this is what all that noise was about. It certainly seems like he should have a large headache. This is the reason one never turns a back on a ram. He simply doesn’t need a reason. He was head butting the cedar trees later in the day.
The other news is that I cut out the fabric 2 new quilts. 
These are the fabrics for the Sherlock Holmes New Year Mystery
And these are for the Bonnie Hunter mystery “On Ringo Lake” She just put out the 4th step, so I’m a bit behind, but now the pieces are cut for these steps, and I just have to find time to catch up.
Though the garden is not growing very much or fast, we did get a sink full of kale today.
Accounts
Today I spent most of the day organizing receipts into notebooks. I was just that far behind. Now I can start putting entering them into Quicken. That would take the rest of the week and I don’t think I can take that much accounting, so I will intersperse with some easy sewing. My goal is to get all the accounts caught up before the end of the year so tax time won’t be so stressful.
And while I was doing this, John was making another feeder for the sheep and a young energetic fellow was weed whacking the fence line. There is also a tree to take off the fence (wind) and many branches, so he will be back in two weeks to help some more.
Hay delivered
Yesterday – 10 Tons of hay delivered. This should keep us until spring fills the pastures with grasses once again.
I was shivering cold at the end of these 3 hours. And I so appreciated the folks that helped get the hay off the truck and stacked into the barn. This should take us into the spring when the pastures green up again. When the truck left, I quickly went to get a few weekend groceries and then stayed in the house trying to get warm.
The following hat is very easy to make and has the pattern for several sizes. I’m hoping to get 2-3 made for myself for this winter.
This big outdoor dog may want to live a cat’s life. That’s a room heater he is lying in front of. When he went to the door, he poked his nose out, looked at me like “you’re kidding, it’s freezing out there”. I persuaded him that he would be happier out there. This same dog loves playing in snow.
Bowl cozies, scraps, and puppy
The bowls are now ready to top stitch. However, I’m have to get the light above the sewing machine replaced first. It seems the ballast is bad.
The cotton scraps are all finished though I will admit that the “large” pieces that went into the color buckets were getting smaller as the day grew longer.
Daisy is and will be a puppy for another year. We are lucky she found an egg carton to destroy. Even though she has bones, she still loves to shred anything she can find. We know that and we are the adults(?) here, so if it gets chewed, we have ourselves to blame.
Yes, I did big damage at Costco and will not be going again this year. But we have dog food and dog treats and sheep treats, and even some people food. You didn’t know Costco sold sheep food? That’s because you might not know how much they love the little animal cookies.
HIA challenge and a feeder
These were my HIA challenge (Hatched in Africa). We use one of their designs monthly. These are their “velvet birds set 3” It’s not seen on the photos but after embroidered, one cuts some of the threads so they pop up like velvet. They are really cute.
This 8 foot feeder is perfect to feed 6 sheep with much less waste. They don’t like to eat food they’ve been trampling any more than we do. This allows them to keep it for food instead of bedding. I was so happy to get this made and will have more done soon.
These snow people look so happy hanging for the holidays and twinkling away.’
She’s finished and I’m very happy with how this one turned out. My sister did all the little Sunbonnets and I put them together and quilted them. I have not yet labeled it, but that is in its future. I’m linking up to Elm’s street One monthly goal.
Sunbonnet #3 is now ready to bind. I’ve been looking back and it seems I have not done much sewing or quilting since late spring. This felt good to get on and off the machine.
Here is a close up of one of the blocks. This one received loops in between the blocks. Hopefully it will get a binding finished before the month is over.
The Meyers lemon tree is blooming. I’m hoping it has lots of lemons to go with 
These wonderful looking limes. There is also an orange tree which is just sitting and looking at us. The citrus trees share the dining room with us during the freezing months.
These funny hens apparently want to be shelved.
And finally the 8 AM hay delivery arrived at 6 PM. However it was not what we ordered and when opened, only about half was good hay. They are returning on Monday to pick it up. Hopefully, we both learned from this. He will be more honest and I will open the bales and look in the middle before any are unloaded