Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

I thought I would show some of the farm chores I do on a daily basis. I tend to the chickens first thing in the morning to let the girls out, give a little scratch and check the nesting boxes.  Woo hoo another egg this morning.  This is the girl right there, in front.  She is the only one out of the eight that is laying eggs right now. She deserves extra scratch if I can figure out how to keep the others out of it.  Then I'll walk down to the barn to feed the heifers.  We have 10 young heifers separated, which I feed 4 buckets of cattle cubes to every day.  We have also 12 heifers who are going to give birth within the next couple of months in the pasture right next to the barn. That is also where the container that holds the cattle cubes is located.  And as you can see I have a group waiting for me to start dishing out the cubes. I have to fill 4 buckets up, but I can only carry...

Three more days till Christmas.  Yesterday I needed to get more of that flannel fabric to finish the PJs and I had bought that fabric in Tulsa. Which meant I needed to go back to Tulsa. I can never just go to Tulsa and come right back home, it seems to always be an all day affair. So basically all I got done yesterday was a little cleaning and running errands I also went by whole foods to pick up some nitrate free salt pork. But they didn't have any at the time. So the butcher suggested just buy some pork belly and use that. Which salt pork is, just salt cured pork belly. But I thought I would try making my own. They were so nice at Whole Foods, for not having what I wanted they gave me a pound of pork belly for free. Went home and looked it up on Google.  Very simple as can be, has only 2 ingredients  You mix the non iodine salt and some brown sugar together and coated the pork liberally.  Then place it in a glass dish, cover with pla...

Well here it is just a few days before Christmas and are you ready? I have a little extra time because my youngest daughter is unable to come home till next Sunday. And with the rest of my daughters are in California and gifts need to mailed or order before now, so shopping is pretty much done for me. I was working on one of the gifts for my youngest when I realized I did not purchase enough fabric. On the pattern it gave amounts for the top and bottom but I was only making the bottoms so I tired to guess how much would be needed. But I guessed wrong. Could of used another yard. Now I'll need to go get some more tomorrow. Earlier, I finally got around to doing something with the apple I picked up last month at Apple Hill. Made a pie and put the rest in the freezer for future pies. And to my surprise there was another egg. The girls stopped laying when we had the groundhog and raccoon invade their house...that was 3 months ago. I just about gave up on...

My five will all start with the letter F 1. Fish chowder. When I was at my daughters this past year she made this dish hoping that "the little dudes" would like it. Now Grammy loved it but the boys they didn't care for it too much. I thought it was mighty tasty so I got a copy of the recipe and I have made it a couple times since I've been home. 2.  Fresh carrots. Now I needed some carrots to go in the chowder and I went out to the garden because I still have a 6 foot patch of carrots in the ground.  The really neat thing about these carrots is I did not sow the seeds myself. I had let a couple carrots from last year go to seed over the summer and this bed self seeded itself. Have to say it's been the best crop of carrots I've had in... I don't  know how long. 3. Flannel pajamas. Since my girls don't read my blog very often I don't have to worry about them finding out about getting flannel pajamas for Chri...

This past couple years I have had to deal with pain in my right hand when knitting. So I have been doing very little. The slippers I just made was taxing and so disappointing cause knitting is something I love to do and here it is more pain than pleasure. Knitting is the first thing I learned and has been my go to handwork. even with that said, I will not give it totally up. I had started this when in California for my daughter and I'm back at it.  cat cocoon Mine is not in pretty colors like this. Mines are in earth tone colors. The cats will love it. Now for the books. I gave myself a goal this year of reading 25 books.  Well I'm a little short of this goal. Right now on number 23 and do not believe I can have 2 more books read in a couple weeks. But that's  OK. there is next year Presently reading  This is the second book in "The Mitford Years" series. and so loving it. Its a sweet read t...

I have gone five days without posting again. Seems like this year I have been in a bad funk I hate it, I rather be consistent and have a set schedule to follow.  But it seems  like this year no matter how hard I try I can't seem to get into a rhythm.    I have to admit part of the reason is the past five days  I had been working outside very hard, and by the time I was be done, I would be too tired to think or move. Three of those five days I spent weeding and cleaning out some beds in the garden and mowing gathering and dumping tubs of clippings, 45 all together.  Very little sewing went on.  I did knit a pair of slippers for my sister which I will give her for Christmas And what little sewing I did, was when it rained Sunday. Started the snowman wall hanging. And cut out some circles for Quilty 365. Yesterday I wasn't able to get any sewing in because I had an eye appointment early...

Yes that's right, it's 70°  and  here it is December 9. This is unseasonably warm weather, but I have to admit I am enjoying it because I was able to put in some outside time that I normally wouldn't of been able to this time a year. Before I went outside today this morning, seeing how is it was in the 30's and 40's.   I worked on some of my Quilty 365 circles I have been searching for Christmas fabric to add to the boys I spy quilts.  And here are some of them that I found. Christmas is such a fun one to do.  I have a few more fabrics but not enough to go all the way to 25 December. I'm not sure what I'll do.  I'll deal with that when it when the time comes. Then this afternoon I spent time on something I normally do the end of October to the middle of November but seeing how I was gone this year and when I got back we had a whole mess of rain that the ground was too wet to mow. ...