Homestead Update

I've gotten the onions in, transplanted lettuce and some brassicas (cabbage, broccoli, etc), planted potatoes, started sweet potato slips, planted garlic and transplanted rosemary and dill. We built a small chicken run for the girls since they dig up my herb garden and lilies on a regular basis. Well, they can't now, so I'm planning for a real nice herb bed this year.

Canned some dried pintos the other day and also some pecans. I'm working on filling my pantry with a year's worth of food. It's good to have a back up. The garden and chickens will feed us in the spring, summer and fall, but again, it's good to have a backup.

C's cat was attacked by 3 dogs 4 days ago and we're nursing him back to health, however unwilling he is to accept it. He's just a tad grouchy these days.

Took a road trip up to my parent's place last weekend and got my almost DIL wedding dress almost done. Just some handwork on the bodice and hemming up the skirt. Still need to make an underskirt, 5 cloaks, my outfit, DH's outfit and alter the bride's maid's dresses. I've got 7 weeks. :)


I need to start some more seeds this weekend and order a few more. Maybe get some peas planted up against the back fence. Lots to do!

Deb

Ice day projects

Today we, like much of the country, were gripped by an ice storm. It pretty much shut down the DFW area. So, since I didn't have to work, I used all the time that I would be gone and did what I wanted to do. Seemed to be fair. Here is what happened.

I finished 2 pillowcases for C,
2 Civil war blocks (both the same-I swap with Sue),

An apron with hot dogs on it,
and I finished the borders on my Roman Stripe quilt.
But now I don't think I like the light purple border. I really think it needs to be a stronger border. I was going to use a dark pink with with polka dots, but it turned out to be a poly blend. Now I guess I'll find something else. Anything that's dark. Maybe green or blue. Do you guys have any thoughts or suggestions?

Anyway, that's what I did today. Not too bad for one day! Too be fair, I did all the prep work yesterday on everything. I was just finishing things today.

Oh, I watched an episode of Battlestar Galactica. My son has been nagging me to watch it for a while, and last time I was at his apartment, he forced the first season on dvd into my hand and demanded that I watch. I got through the first episode which was a four hour mini-series on Sunday and watched one episode today. It's hard to sew while you're paying attention, thus only one episode.

Gotta go get my jammies on and get settled for the evening.

Peace,

Deb

Sunday's Photo

I know I missed yesterday. We had a long day of collecting firewood and I was just too tired to worry about it. But I thought about y'all. :)

Today's photo is of my Christmas gift from my almost DIL. She knows me well.
Isn't that the most amazing pincushion you've ever seen! I absolutely love it, and obviously am using it. Thought I'd share.

Peace,

Deb

must have item

Real quick. DH has to get up at the butt crack of dawn again in the morning, but I have to keep up with my "photo a day".

My sister gave me a wonderful gift for Christmas in the form of a gift card to DSW. It's a shoe store. I was gonna go practical and responsible, but went for these instead.
Way more fun, don't you think?

g'nite

Deb

Yesterday's Photo

I know, I'm already slacking. I have a good excuse, though. I worked yesterday and then when I got home, we ate dinner and cleaned up, and then dh went to bed. He had to be at work this morning at 4, so he went to bed early. And the computer is in our bedroom. Well? It's all I've got.

Anyway, here is today picture.
This is Short Round, the new stove. She's not quite as aesthetically pleasing as the old one, but she sure cooks well! We've made a quiche, a shepard's pie and some cookies so far. Not bad for only having had her since Monday. I"ve been rearranging the kitchen and pulled out the old kitchen cart from the sewing room for storage, and so far it's going well. I'd been wanting to go through everything in there for a while, and now I have a reason.

Have a beautiful day!

Deb

Technical difficulties

My Kodak software is acting hinky so I can't post a picture of my new stove. BUT, I promised a picture a day so today I'm going to post this one.
This a picture of My Chemical Romance at Edgefest in April, 2007. I was on DH's shoulders in the pit. Ahhhh....that was a REALLY good show.

The weather warmed up a bit today, topping out at 58, so that was nice. I spent a lot of the morning organizing my kitchen to accommodate the new stove and also going through cabinets and pulling out things that won't be staying. I had some old rusty pans that will be recycled and some things that got thrown away and some that will be given to my son. Not done yet, but getting there. It's going to be very nice and quite efficient. C made cookies today. She's never baked in a real oven. I had to teach her even how to turn it on and what cookie sheets to use. I'm glad I was able to teach her how to use a real stove before she moved out. Of course, she doesn't know how to use a dishwasher or a thermostat either.

G'nite

Deb

Texas Ice

Woo! I made it two days in a row! I was going to post a picture of my new stove or my new shoes but I have something different. I've got plenty of days left for the stove and the shoes (they're pretty sassy shoes....)

Saturday, we had record highs here in North Texas. 84 degrees. Today, the high was 31 and that was at 12:01 am and has been dropping from there. We also had some rain today. This is the result.

A good old Texas ice storm. It's quite pretty and I don't really mind them when they hit as it seals up all the little nooks and crannies (crooks and nannies) here in my old house. It's almost warmer. Almost.

Oh, and I worked on one of those quilts in the UFO list on the side.

Peace

deb