Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

It's hard to believe it's been a week since I last wrote. But I can understand because a lot has been going on this past week Last Thursday it started with Bible study in the morning, stitch group in the afternoon and Thursday evening preparing for my daughters visit for the weekend. Friday was an exciting day I caught the groundhog that's been visiting in the hen house. I will show more of that at the end of the post. And Crystal showed up that afternoon. Saturday we had a small family gathering to celebrate Crystal's birthday with dinner and some cake. Sunday Crystal and I did a little cooking, little lounging and a lot of visiting. Monday being Labor Day "The Man of the Place" was home and we had planned to go out to eat and just do a little drive around. But that got put back by a few hours due to the fact that we lost water to the house. You see we are on well water and so if you lose electricity water goes out. We have no water.  So

The Prairie Dog I forgot to show you this in my last post. They are so cute but I bet they have their own falsies too. This was the picture I was able to take with phone camera. There was a whole colony of them but could not get a good zoom shot. They really do bark like little dogs and they have short tails they wag. Reminded me of squirrels. Found this cartoon on another blog, thought it was cute.

HE'S BACK,  I SPOTTED HIM. This little critter has enormous appetite.  Just look at what he has done to the veggie patch.  My poor sunflowers, they were 3 1/2 ft tall I haven't had any problem there for a few days. Started to think what I did was working  the red cabbage was pretty well ready for picking, at least he thought so  Getting a little to relax and pu t down my shields. That's what I get. So I going to try to trap him. I didn't think I could bait the trap but after hearing what had happen to a friend of mine, it might work. She said she had one get up on her porch for a melon. I saw him escaping the garden by going under the gate I use to get in and out. Doesn't look like he could fit through it but he did. He ran across the pasture to the old homestead and slipped under the house So I'm going to bait the live trap with a piece of cantaloupe. Put it near where I saw it escape from the garden. By the looks of him, he has