This n that

Another day in paradise.   It is raining a nice steady rain, that makes you want to just stay curled up in your favorite chair and enjoy what you love to do.  Mine is reading!  Alas, that is not what I am doing, of course, I am still trying to get through the house and get rid of things that we have not seen in a coons age.

First thing this morning was going to the fairgrounds and entering Sirocco in the fair.  Brian is going to show him in 5 western classes during fair week.   I have never shown a horse in my life, so I am leaving that up to Brian for this year and he can school me in the art of how to show a horse.  I will be there listening and watching and learning, what it is all about!  I rode Sirocco for the first time last night since he has been at the trainers.  He has come a long ways.  I was not nervous and very ready to ride and see how well he listens to my suggestions.  He did great, he did not put the fear of god into me once.  (thank you)

We had a family reunion Sunday and we did the meat for the occasion and it went well.  We had a lovely day for it.  

Hope you are having a great week.

Rags

Here are just some of the rugs that I have woven.  The first two are made out of wool, the third one is out of cotton rags, and the last one is made out of wool, and chenille cotton.   Please click on them to get a better view!

It has been a pretty darn week here, but starting to get dry and would like to see some rain.  Everyone around us have gotten rain and seems to be missing us.  I probably better not wish too much, I might get more than I bargained for!

Hope you had a great week and have a great weekend!

Display

This is my display at the Antique Mall in Little Falls, NY.  The lady that runs the shops said that I did a great job with the display and that my prices were reasonable.  She sounded real happy.   I was happy, my daughter went with me and helped me set up.  They are having a what is called Canal Days this weekend and that will generate a lot of customers.  I am pretty excited.  I hope to be able to get my name out there and maybe generate some business.

I am in the process of canning beets.  I didn't get started until late in the day, which means it will be pretty darn late by the time I finish!  I have been running for the last three days and I feel like I am forgetting to do things.   I am actually looking forward to the weekend and hopefully things will settle down for a couple of days!

Hope you are having a great week.

This one's for Marianne

The son was mowing the lawn the other day and saw these little ones in the tree only 2 feet from the ground.  We were able to get right up to them and if we wanted to, we could of actually picked them up.  They are one of the cutest babies we have seen.  I am not that good with my birds, so I think I will leave it up to my in-laws to let me know what they are.  They are fantastic with their birds, including the hubby.

I am in the process of canning beans and I will have 18 quarts when all of them are done.  Tomorrow I am going to work on doing my beets, after I do some running in the morning.

I am going to put my weaving in an antique mall that has handmade things that are for sale on the top floor.   I am hoping that I have enough things to sell to put in it.  I look at what I have done and it just doesn't seem like enough.  I have to start somewhere though and I can always keep adding thing as I finish them.   At least I will have the opportunity to get my stuff out, so that the public can see what I do and hopefully generate some customers!  It is only going to cost me approximately 40 to 50 dollars a month to rent a space.  Wish me luck.  I will take a picture of my display and post it tomorrow.

Hope you had a great day.

Gardening

Saturday I did broccoli and cauliflower.  My second batch.  Today I went out and picked more beans and beets.  Tomorrow is a day that will be filled with canning the beans and pickling the beets.  I found that I love my beets pickled and I even heat them up for a vegetable at dinner time. So, now I don't make any other beet except for pickled.

Hope you had a great weekend.

Happy Birthday

Today is my daughters 24th birthday.  We are very blessed to have two wonderful children.  She has accomplished getting a bachelors degree in psychology and she has been working since she has gotten out of high school.  We wish her the best of luck.

In just 20 days our son will be having his 20th birthday.   They sure have grown up fast, and we wonder where the time has gone!  

We love you and hope you have a long and happy life!

Love Mom and Dad

Gloomy

It pretty much rained all day and had a couple of good thunderstorms.    It was one of those days you want to stay in and just read a book.   I had to take both the car and truck and get the oil changed, along with taking the son's car over to have it looked over.   He had an accident that did some damage to his car but thank goodness it was minor stuff and no one else was involved and he wasn't hurt.   He was still able to drive it home with no problem.  Most of the damage was just bodywork!  He is more upset with himself and the damage he did to his precious car!  He was pretty darn proud of buying his own car.

Not much else is going on.  The critters are all the same and everyone is reasonably healthy.  Jake had a allergic reaction to a  flea and tic tag that I bought, now I have to give him a bath twice a week and give him some antibiotics for 14 days.   His hair started to fall out under his neck.   Trials and tribulations of having animals to care for.

Hope you have a great week.