Wednesday, November 23, 2011

First Attempt at "School"

 Bringing the crayons to the table.
 Sitting up to count: 1, 2 Hippos. 
No. There are not 3.
 We did make it to 4, eventually.
 Dale wanted to do "school" too but was too tired.
 Taping 4 lions on her page.
I wanted to get to 5 today but thought that my head might explode if we continued so we moved on to reading counting books and watching the Baby Einstein Numbers video.

Hand-Traced Cards

 Dale wanted to help too, but his hands wont do what he wants yet.  Maybe in a few months, but then he will probably just try to eat the crayons.
 Jes is happily coloring on the cards after we traced her's and brother's hand prints on it.
 Here are the 3 cards we made:


 Just coloring on the front wasn't enough on this one.

Friday, September 23, 2011

Work Around the House

 Josh had time to work at our house.  We have been wanting the cherry tree down for a while, so it worked out that he needed to move it for the boom truck to get up the drive way with our roofing.
 It sure cleaned up quickly and the neighbor wanted the firewood so it worked out well for both of us.
 Josh taking down part of another tree.
The roof all cleaned off and ready to go.
 Josh doing his circus balancing act...
 The sun through the trees...one last time.
When it's all said and done, there is a lot to clean up still!

Monday, August 29, 2011

Around the yard in August


We must start, of course, with Chris's hop plant.  This is the first year that we have gotten the hop flowers on it. If it starts to produce very well, we will actually be able to brew using our own hops.  That would be pretty awesome.

 I am very excited at the prospect of having lots of squash this fall and winter.  If I can just keep the deer out of it, that is.



 This is one of the last garlic heads still standing.  We have garlic everywhere on our property.
 This is the first year that we have grown a tomatilo; it seems to love all the sun and is producing flowers like mad!  Now, we are waiting for the onslaught of tomatilos.
 More squash! And...my sweet meat pumpkin! Nothing is quite as good as a pumpkin pie made from your own pumpkin!  Yummy.  I think my tummy is grumbling for it already!

 
Jes is very helpful in the garden...or she is there with her hands always touching everything.



Out in the back yard, I have a spot that I will be adding sand and loam to so that I can move the raspberries there.  I need a rototiller to borrow so that I can get it all mixed in.

 You have to love produce that requires you to do nothing but pick it! The creek keeps the berries watered and so all I have to do is trim the wild vines and pick berries.  Oh boy and they are so good!

 The calamitous grows on the front of the house house. This is the first year I have given it something to grow up.  It seems to like it given the sheer amount of blooms on it this year.

 This is the strangest hydrangea that I have ever seen but it is still very pretty.
 This pretty pink flower is actually in the neighbor's yard, not mine.
 Tomatoes! Tomatoes! Tomatoes!


The strawberry plants in my "patch" are producing nothing but more plants and some leaves; the plants that I put in the big flower pot are producing like mad. I hate it when my husband is right. Argh!
Have a blessed day!

Friday, July 29, 2011

2011 Rendezvous Quilt


  Laying the quilt out on the couch to decide how I wanted it.  I still had NO idea of how big it was going to be.







I started putting rows together and I started to like it more and more. I hope the Rendezvous guys do too.







This square is the first one I started the stitching on. 
These two are showing you without the hoop.  It's going to be a lot of work and I keep thinking that I should just run it under my sewing machine.
 


 Laying out the quilt on the floor. I had to push the couch as far back as possible in order to lay the whole thing out and even then it was a stretch to make it fit.  Jes was eating lunch in her high chair while I did that.

 










 The kids helped me by holding the quilt out.

 
 That was a lot of hand stitching.  

And Then it's done!!!!