Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

Went to Tulsa today to get my hair done, had it colored and cut. Looking good. Now I'm not a photogenic persons and most of my pictures  turn out poorly but if I do get a descent one, I'll share. Did a few  errands while I was in town by getting some potting soil and a couple new pots.  I what to plant some veggies in containers on my back porch like I saw Mamma at mamas mercantile  do here. That sounds like a good idea especially for the lettuce and things that I would use often in the kitchen. You see my garden is out there. Let's put it this way... it takes me five minutes to get to the garden back, so it would be a lot more convenient to have some veggies on the back porch. Plus it's getting me ready for my old-age when I can't be gardening like I do now and I'll just be container gardening. I forgot to tell you about the snake yesterday. When I went into the hen house to let the girls out, there was no sign of the snake. It must of foun

I have been home now for a little over a week and I can say I finally feel like things are back to normal. Funny how sometimes you need a space of time to get adjusted to your routine after being gone for so long. And one of my bad routines, maybe not bad but I could be utilizing my time better, is I will check my blog in the morning then check my blog list and I'll start reading and then before you know it I'm surfing the web and before you know it I have been on my iPad for over an hour. It's the time of the year that makes it a bad thing. Because if I need to be doing anything outside should be first thing in the morning when it's the coolest. And it's not saying much as far as being the coolest, kids right now it's 80° humidity is 85% and the dewpoint is like 75. It's like living in the tropics.  I did braved the outside long enough to let the chickens out the henhouse and check on anything that needed to be harvest today like some blueberries, cab

It was a good day to just stay inside with the A/C on, seeing how that even this morning it was already so humid, 80%, down right sticky and thick.  After my coffee, I went out to open up the hen house so the girls could go do their thing. Beside letting them out and giving them scratch, I'll check the nesting boxes for eggs. All I could see was the golf balls I have in the nesting boxes. This is to fool the snakes so when they swallow one thinking it's an egg, it will become stuck inside them. An egg will collapse and be digested but not a golf ball so the effect of that is the snake will slither off and die somewhere.  Well that is what I came across this morning, a black snake who had swallow an egg.  Saw me and tried to escape the way it came in the box but as it was leaving in the space it enter in was now too small to pass through now, with that egg in it. And there was no way I was going to grab that thing by the tail to get rid of it. I

I am embracing mine and keeping it close all day. Made the decision today that my day is going to be focus on one thing and that is sewing. After being back home now for a week and hadn't sewn any, that it's about time.  Working on blocks for Farmers Wife and have three completed and two more ready to paper piece. Oh boy my favorite way. After those I still have Month 13 collection which is four blocks.. I'm wanting to hurry through these so I can get back to working on the ISPY quilts and a few other projects. Keep thinking about wanting to start something new but also feel reluctant cause there so many projects needing to be finished. My will power is fading quick thou. OK...... back to the present. was able to stitch done the quarter section yesterday, added another quarter section...well all but the berries. The berries can easily be jarred loose.  Maybe that's what I'll do next along with circles, start on the

I wanted to share another past post and one of my favorite memories. I wrote this December 2011 and makes me laugh thinking back to when this happened.  hope you get a giggle too. Bad Cows The " man of the place" decided that since our pasture are being grazed down and he is trying to stretch as much out of them as he can before we have to start putting out hay. He figure that for one last time  he was going to let them graze our house yard. Now this is not the first time and I had put up with his idea of   mowing . (past post)   That time it was just a few of the older cows, they are slow and not so curious. But this time it was the first time mothers (2yrs old) Like last time I can put up with the spots of natural fertilizer, that goes away with rain and snow. I will barely tolerate them pruning my monkey grass. It was looking good and would of all winter, but I tell myself it will grow back. Then there is that phrase "they

This is the first time in over a month that I've been able to slow down and do some needle work on a Sunday. And I'm enjoying every minute of it.  Today I am working on the last block to be appliquéd for the quilt "Words To Live By".  I have completed appliqueing the corners and the surrounding blocks.  Seeing how this a large block and there are lots of pieces to be attached,  I'm doing it in quarters, so it's easier for me to handle and make sure my pieces don't come off of the background. It feels so good to be appliquéing, and it's been a while since I've taken time to do some.  Seeing how this is the last block to be appliquéd I really need to start thinking and getting serious about making all the half square triangles that will be in this quilt. I would love for this to be completed and quilted by the end of the year. I believe I can do it. Linking up with k

I told myself this year while going to the boys in California during the month of May, I wasn't going to do much as far as a vegetable garden this year. That's because I would plant and weed like crazy before I left and then when I came home it would just be a jungle out there. I have gotten tired of coming home right when the humidity would kick in and try to work out in it. I'm not getting any younger and the humidity, it's not letting up either. But I cannot handle a jungle in my veggie patch. Literally it drives me nuts. So that's what I've been doing in the morning, every morning since I've been back. I will go out to the veggie patch and work until I can't handle it anymore. After being in California with no humidity, I come back a wuss every time. It takes me at least a week to acclimate back. Yesterday was the best day I've had so far this week, I lasted till 10:30. But not today I barely made an hour. With the humidity bein