Boredom? Doesn’t happen here!
This knocked me off my chair late last night. I really thought he would never find the right woman. He’s nearly 40 now, so he’s met a few and no one appealed to him enough to make him pop the question. Now he has done it! And we are happy for them. No date has been set yet.
I took Beau (dog) to the vet this morning to get the stitches out and he gets so excited with all the new smells, it is difficult to hang onto him. We came home from that and Bill and I went to the grocery store. I had a short list, but, even so, they didn’t have half the items on my list.
The UPS man dropped these 40# boxes off at the gate to the barn instead of at the front door. When DH went to get them, one of the dogs slipped by and did a neighborhood walk about. So I put the boxes in the back of the car and then went dog chasing. And this is why I go to the gym 3 days a week.
I made stuffed Rigatoni for a company lunch tomorrow. I simmered the tomatoes to half the amount and added vegetables to that. The filling for these is a vegan ricotta/spinach filling. Then I did get some basic house cleaning done and 5 pints of green beans canned.
When I went to feed the sheep, I found one with his head stuck in the fence and he didn’t want to pull back, so I called a neighbor to have him help me push the head back through. How is it these sheep can twist their heads to get to grass on the other side of a fence, but can’t twist it to get back out? Boredom on a farm? It doesn’t happen. Sometimes I wonder what I did for entertainment when we lived in the city, and then I remember. We had little children and music lessons!
Every day this week, I had allocated the afternoon to sewing, but every time an afternoon came, there was something else more pressing. I only have a week and a half of this month left and still have not completed any of my August sewing/quilting challenges, though some are started. The knitting challenge is finished. I just looked at next weeks and find that Monday, we go to the heart doctor and my helper that usually comes for 5 hours on Monday is taking the day off for eclipse reasons. Tuesday, the people are coming with the excavator to dig the hole to put a large water tank and a propane tank. Lines will be dug to connect the water to the house as well. Maybe Sunday, after I water the gardens, and Wednesday I can work on some of these projects. I don’t do well missing sleep, so that is not an option.
Boredom? I don’t even know what that is.
Right now, I’m ready for the Sabbath rest. You are welcome to join us.
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This 500 gallon septic tank will allow us to put a toilet at the barn which will be a real convenience.
This first time down the hole wasn’t quite wide enough at the bottom, so they had to bring it back up and dig it wider.op
Now it fits beautifully and is covered. Next week we will tackle putting the propane and water tank into the ground.
Here the supervising crew is as close as they can get and still stay out of the sun and out of the way.
This is the bag pattern I tested today from the inside. I can’t show you the outside until it is published, but I did SEW today. This is a very roomy bag and I would use it to carry quilts to a show n tell or supplies to a class. I will give you more details when I can. Meanwhile, it felt great to be back in the sewing room.
We also had some company for a short while today. We have so many cherry tomatoes, cucumbers and beets to share today. It’s nice when someone appreciates them.
These little shell socks are finished. I love them. Plus this yarn is so good about being tossed in the washer and dryer.
The geese love their fresh drinking water. Remember how small they were this spring.
I am loving the way these “Little shell socks” have turned out. They are ready to have the toes knit in and finished off. They have been on the needles way too long. My goal was to finish them this month and that should happen.
These sheep now have permanent residence here. The hay wagon helped me get a bit closer to them. There is a saying in sheep and some other livestock “stranger danger” and until they get used to me being the one bringing food, that’s how they will think. They have luscious wool and about half are lambs. Most of them are colored, which is also sought after. So I am a happy shepherdess today.
Today has been filled with too much excitement. I was blending some tomato sauce when the lid flew off. (no photo) The kitchen is a bit cleaner now. Then went out to put something in the freezer and found this freezer – which was over half full – has died. A quick transfer of ingredients to other freezers in the house saved the ingredients. Now all freezers are full and there will be more food coming in.
A day in the kitchen yielded another 13 cups of relish,
And an artichoke, potato, pepper casserole, that took too much time to create and was okay, but we won’t be having it again.
This one was hiding. But thankfully it went home with the daughter who found it. We now have 22 sizeable cukes in the refrigerator meaning over 8″ plus many more pickle size on the vines. I will be finding homes for 
There is another double batch of cucumber relish now in the refrigerator. In the morning, I will rinse it, put the rest of the ingredients in and can it.
Beau, the dog in the foreground spent some time at the vet’s on Friday. He had to have stitches in two places and they updated his shots, which were way out of date. In two weeks we go back to have the stitches out. The window that he went through to cut himself now has fencing over it. He didn’t go through glass, it was a cutout, but had a nail where screening had previously been. However, we don’t enjoy spending money at the vet’s, so have that covered.