Here are a few more big trucks. It’s going slowly because I have to keep an eye on the sheep. 3 more to lamb. One is technically due today, one mid May and one anywhere in between. Of course then there are the other things like meals and visiting people in the hospital. All of you know what I mean.
Evil eye from mom because she doesn’t want to let me near this baby.
Getting a peak at the baby
Finally — the baby!
If someone will explain to me how to download a video here, I’ll take some photos of the little ones playing and show them.
On our outing, I was able to get 12 tomato plants, which are now in the ground.
Clothes either wear out or just don’t fit well anymore. So today was the big shopping for clothes, barn supplies, and whatevers. I like the prices at Costco, so buy whatever I can there. Yes, I could go to thrift stores, but that takes more time than I have to go through the clothes and try them on. So I opt for Costco, where jeans cost 14.99 and actually fit me. So 3 pair of jean, a swim suit, and a summer dress should keep me for the rest of the year as I still have some winter tops. I will need some summer tops, but didn’t see anything I liked.
My daughter and SIL brought this lovely scarf back from Thailand for me. They had a marvelous time and highly recommend the trip.
The name of this small table topper is SPIDRON. It was supposed to be English paper pieced. The date I started it says 2008. OK, I cheated. I had all the pieces ironed around the little cardboard type papers and was supposed to whipstitch them in place. I tried and it looked awful. Then I ironed everything out flat, drew around some of the pieces, and just machine stitched it. Had I known that was going to be the way to do it, I would have cut the pieces with 1/4″ seams, instead of random seams. It is now in one piece and needs to be backed and possibly quilted. I am so glad this is done. I am not in love with English paper piecing. That is the way some of my ufos have happened. Do you have those kind of ufos – where you just don’t want to do it?
After lunch, it was time to attack weeds in the hoop house – another example Christ used. Do you know what this plant is?
Here is a close up of the same plant. I think I could make a fortune off this plant if it had value, it doesn’t “get it” when I keep pulling it all up.
Since I forgot to take a photo of the aisle before starting, I’ll show you what the middle aisle looks like so you can get an idea of what this aisle looked like.
Of course, not much else was accomplished because when power was out, nothing works, not even the well. We are so blessed in this country to have secure buildings with heat and water. When we are out of it, I start to realize how much more difficult our ancestors lives were. Not only our ancestors, but many in this world are still without. We, who are so blessed, have a responsibility to pass these blessings on to others.
This variegated green thread has been around for awhile and it fought me. But it finally decided to submit.
Today was a day of waits. So I worked on the braided wall hanging – not table runner as I thought. These are all the braids and now I need to trim all the rows and put them together, put borders on and quilt.
I am starting the braided table runner from Jenny Beyer. Each of those little pieces is 1.25 x 3″. There are 60 to a chevron row. There are 5 rows. However, it is fun to watch the colors change.