I loved this picture.  The camera focused on the frost covered branch but Ditto is in the back ground.  It surprised me.

IT IS COMPLETED.  The first quilt I have ever made.  It is all hand done.  All the centers are pint and all the back grounds have flowers.  I hand quilted it and crocheted around the edges. 

I am quite proud of myself actually.  I wish I had taken a picture of the back of it.  A lot of the blower back grounds are pink roses, or rose buds.  I found a print that is pink roses that are a little larger but nearly the same print.  I singed it with the same pink as the edge.  I have already started blocks for the next one.  It is a dusty rose print and white.  I am going to make it queen sized.  This one is small but that's OK.

Kind of a slow day.  We had a man come from Ephrata to look at two of our horses - Peanut Butter and Cody.  He is making up his mind so who knows.  I hope he takes one of them.  Peanut Butter is the perfect age to start right now.  He just is coming 3.  He is half mustang and half Quarter horse. 

Just had Justin for a little bit today.  He is getting so big.  He weighs about l8 pounds and is a week short of 4 months. 

I hope you have a good Sunday.

Blessings.

These baby goats were all born the same day.  Shannan does not leave them with their mama's but milks them and for the first 48 hrs she gives them a bottle.

I went down one evening and helped her.  These 5 were my responsibility to get fed.  The yellow spots  tell Shannon what day they were born.  After 48 hrs. she puts them on a lamb bar.  You hold them on your lap kind of like a baby person and give them their bottle.  Only not on their backs.

This morning I looked out and Bob had Sage leading her around things in the back yard.  She thought that big spool was going to jump out and eat her.  She got better.  I am so grateful he is taking time to work with her for me. 

I have been fighting a sore throat for a couple of days.  I am relatively sure it is sinus related.  If it doesn't go away by Friday I will have to call the doctor.

Tomorrow is our quilting group.  I am putting the last of the crocheted edge on my first quilt.  I would be done if I had not taken it out.  I started with white crotchet thread but that did not look good.  So I dug around and found a spool of pink thread.  That is looking great. 

Bob is leaving in the morning to deliver 200 pounds of hamburger to a friend who bought it.  He is also taking a surprise gift for out youngest daughter from her oldest brother.  I wish I could be there to see the look on her face.  She has no idea.

We had sun today.  I wanted to get out and do something.  Its still icy in most places though and I really don't want to fall.

Have a wonderful Thursday,

Blessings. 

My little WSU Cougar.  Just had to take his picture in the outfit.  He was really good today. 

We have some banty chickens.  These eggs are just a little larger than a quail egg.  Love my little itty bitty chickens.  I have too many roosters though. 

I found this quilt block on someones blog that I read.  I got an inspiration to do a similar one only with horses - horse prints and matching fabrics.  I want to show it to my quilting friend Vicki and show her.  I have my first quilt ready to start the crocheted edge on it.  Then I will show it to everyone.  I have already started a few blocks for the next one.  It will be rose pink and white.   

Katie's horse Abby got a good report from the vet today.  The swelling is way down, this was the last day of Banamine.  She is still very sore clear up into her back.  It will take a while for all the muscles will be back in shape.  She is a very lucky horse.

Our Mustang and Burro Club met last night and made some big plans.  Now if the BLM brings the adoption to Spokane like we have been talking to them about, we are going to be ready.  Still plenty of time for some more planning to fine tune all the plans we made.  Not only to help the BLM and promote the mustang horses and to show off our own. 

It is getting closer to the weather being suitable for riding.  It is just to icy now.  I would not want Sage to slip on the ice and hurt herself. 

Today Bob and I had to pen up one of our oldest cows.  I feel bad.  She is due to calf in about a month and she is very lame.  She can't put her one hind foot down.  We put her in a pen with good shelter and we can feed her without her having to walk and compete with the other cows. 

Hello February, glad to see you.

Blessings.

Katie and us had a real scare today.  Bob went over to feed our steers and found Abby down with her hind leg in the fence.  She had laid there and struggled quite a while.  The ground under her was thawed and wet.  Bob called Katie and she came right out.  They got the wire off her leg.  She was trembling and Bob could not get her up.  Katie walked over to get her halter and Abby struggled to her feet.  Bob called me to come sit with Justin and he came and grabbed the first two blankets out of our blanket trunk.  They put the cooler on and then the blanket over it.  She would not put that back leg down but they got her to the stall.  She pooped and peed.  They gave her a tube of electrolytes and a dose of bute.  Neither of us had any banamine.

She called a vet and she came out shortly.  Her left leg has some cuts but not bad.  She pulled muscles in her leg,  hip and clear up into her back.  The vet gave her banamine and they shut her into the stall.Two weeks of stall rest and the vet will come check on her Friday.  It was so scary. 

I would rather have been out helping because I could not see what they were doing and she was Katie's horse so Justin and I had a good visit.

Other than that, just a normal day.  I was supposed to hear from the fair grounds about the adoption today but they did not call.  I will call them in the morning if I don't hear.

Take care, remember Abby in your prayers.

Blessings

No pictures today.  Sorry. 

Today was a Justin day but I knew I would not get home before Katie had to go to work.  So Bob, bless his heart, took care of him until I got here.  He will tell everyone that but in reality he was asleep when Katie brought Justin and still asleep when I got here and Bob went to the barn to work.  LOL.  Actually he woke up, I fed him and he was as happy as a lark until his mama got here early.

We woke up to freezizng rain this morning and the roads were treacherous.  I was late getting to the quilting group because part of the way was driving on what you could have ice skated on.  I got stuck getting out of our driveway.  It turned to regular rain and that is what it is doing at the moment.  It is supposed to turn to snow before morning though.  Its January and I know that.  February is almost here and that makes it closer to spring.



These pictures are all from our friends property that live up west of Deer Park.  I was hoping to get some deer in the snow picture but they were not there that day.  Its quite a little drive from the main road to their home which is around the bend ahead of us.

We didn't do much today.  It wasn't quite as cold but things I had to do inside so I just looked out.  My bones get cold and then I am miserable.

Tomorrow is my quilt day.  I enjoy those ladies so much.  My quilt is getting closer.  I started another one but just making the squares now because I can take those places with me.  Here at home I just work on the big one.  I have the front and back together and about 80% quilted. 

Blessings

This is the barn quilt that Nikki made me for Christmas.  It is beautiful and I just really love it.  Last night I was wondering about them and I entered Barn Quilts on Google and there were hundred of them.  Not just exactly like mine and that was wonderful.  I just love it.  Nikki says I will be a trend setter.  I don't know about that but I really do love it a lot and makes me smile every time I look out the window.

This is the picture of Sage that didn't upload yesterday.  She was coming at a trot.  When I put her out this AM she didn't want me to leave her.  She would have gotten in to my pocket if I had let her.

The trees that border our yard at the side.  .  They were so pretty this morning.

Our white rooster in the frozen fog covered pen this morning.  I wish I had gotten his face out better.I have not felt too wonderful this afternoon but better this evening.  I think I ate something that did not agree with me.  It all came out one way or the other.  I feel better now.

Have a dinner invitation for tomorrow evening and Wednesday too.  I will get to not have to cook.  We don't get a lot of dinner invites and they come in the same week.  It will be fun though. 

Take care,

Blessings