Sunday, July 16, 2006

 

Our homesteading is coming along


Our next step in homesteading is now complete.

We now have chickens! Six lovely little chicks and they are so adorable.

And soon to be productive I hope - we need eggs from this little ones.

But for now they are just fun to watch, and feed, and water, and you know. But it is great.




Hubby did a wonderful job on the chicken house.

He built it from scratch (grin) no plans - just figured it out in his head and went to work.
It turned out just super.

And the new chicks are now inside and loving their new home.

And I am very proud of him - awesome job Hubby!

The puppy saga has continued. We sold our little chocolate lady this weekend. She went to a wonderful home and will be really loved there. We were so tickled to see Libby and Clarence get her as we know that she will be loved. We still have our two little apricot boys. They have discovered their barker this week so they have been trying it out at every opportunity. It is so cute to watch them bark at the older dogs - see what we can do now! But they soon tire and it is nap time for them. Is this not an angel?



I have been working on my panels for CFAC. I have completed four now and so I just have 16 more to go. I have not been able to work on them as often as I would like to as this week has been really busy but hopefully I can accomplish more next week.

I am still working on my loomed prayer shawl. I got a few more inches completed this week. So that is good progress.

I did complete my loomed gift bag. I used some homespun yarn and felted in it in the washer. But I was not too pleased with the felting. Usually my front load washer does well but this time the felting was not as tight as I like it. I believe next time I will felt it by hand.

I also got about 100 fleece blankets done for TTT. I am pleased with that accomplishment however I need to get 100 more done before the end of the month. We need about 200 to make the deliveries for this month. But I still have a couple of weeks to get them done in so it should go well.

Well, I guess that is my update for this week. Have a happy knitting week all!

*GB2G*

......by the way - is anyone else having trouble getting photos to load on blogger - it has been a headache trying to get these pictures loaded. :(



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Sunday, July 09, 2006

 

Two michief making boys

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Here are the curious puppies

I don't think that charxxx is made just for oops but it is really a great toy.

Watch how it runs away when you try to catch it.

Oh dear, it is coming apart....what is that....I do
believe that I hear Mommy coming...

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Saturday, July 08, 2006

 

Look what the mailman brought....

I was doing my normal Saturday laundry duty when I heard a horn blowing out in the driveway. DH was in the kitchen and offered to get it for me and wow! He comes back in the house with a big box. "Present from Lynn for you" he says. Well, the laundry just had to wait...I wanted to open that box. I knew that my new looms were here!


And here are my goodies, my 30" ADJ rake, my teeny rake set, and some gorgeous Jacob wool. I just wanted to sit down and play - the laundry did not seem important at all, but since DH had no clean socks he begged to differ with me, so back to the laundry. But I will play with the toys later tonite Oh, and by the way, if you do not have a set of the Teeny rakes they are just great, not only for dishcloths, washcloths, afghan squares etc. but they make great swatch and gauge tools. Starting a new project....need to check your yarn, just choose a teeny rake and make a swatch - much better than frogging. Lynn has them in fine gauge and half gauge so grab a set for yourself. Her link is in my sidebar.

I finished my prayer shawl for the family of the plane crash victim. And I was running so late on it that I shipped it before taking a photo. Oh, well...it did turn out very lovely though, I used RH Light and Lofty in wine and loomed in on my beret loom from Lynn. I was very pleased with it. I have started another one, again on my Markman beret loom, this time using LB Homespun in Tudor. It is a lacy pattern one and I like the way that it is shaping up. Take a look....


I worked this week on washing, packaging and shipping items for TTT. Eight cases were delivered to the Charlotte hospitals and as always they were so thrilled to get them. DH and I took a few days off this week for some very needed R & R. We mostly stayed at home and played catch-up. We have gotten so far behind with our chores at home this was a good opportunity to try to get things back in order. But we did take a short trip to the mountains. We went to the Mast General Store, rode on the parkway enjoying the scenery and had lunch at Mel's Diner. I love that diner, it is decorated in the 50's theme and the food is just great. It was a wonderful trip and just the thing that we needed to refresh our spirits.

The puppies are growing like weeds, they are 6 weeks old now. Just about time for them to go to their new homes. They are really playful now....and very curious. Lots of fun to play with :0)

Have a happy knitting day
*GB2G*

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