Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

Last week the "Man of The Place" told me that it was time to work the cows. Now what he calls working the cows - I call their spring check up - cause its a lot like giving my cat's their annual check up So last weekend and today we did our herds. We round them up  and will seperate the cows from their calfs  so we can run them threw the chute. This is where we give them a good look and take notice of their overall health and if there anything that needs to be attended to. Like this old girl who had   a back hoof that is growing oddly and  needed a pedicure. You can see that her hoof is growing upward, forgive how gross looking it is. It does not hurt her now but it could become a problem and she could go lame. It should look like the other back foot Remove the odd hoof - or just a part - and off she went after she was dewormed and given her vaccines. We vaccinate to prevent sexual diseases and the prevention of

If you have cats and especially a kitten, you know what its like to try to sew at times when they are present. Bob my kitten loves to be around when I'm sewing - so one day when he was up on my table I just had to take some pictures of Bob being Bob. At this time he was really into chewing on everything or try to pick it up and take off with it. Hope you find them as amusing as I did. He was really being a pest this day. All this activity wore him out. He has grown some since then but he is still a really cute cat. Can be your best friends

I am trying something new for me. Its been around for a while now but I just now decided to give it a try and that is growing veggies in straw bales. I have a friend who had done this and she had great success and I hope to too. So I started by laying down some landscape fabric to help prevent weeds from growing underneath the bales.  Being where my garden is located it is a never ending battle fighting weeds. Then I postion the bales on their sides  and started conditioning them with blood meal (doing it the organic way) I apply 3 cups of blood meal per bale on day 1, 3, 5  watering everyday.  Day 7-9 I'll put 1.5 cups and continue to water it in each day. Day 10 I'll apply a organic fertilizer. Should be ready to plant 2 - 4 days later. I'll keep posting pictures and updating. I'm on day 5 now. You want to know more than what little I have written go to these site to know more and they are the ones I following the "

Yeah, I finished the binding just in the nick of time. I wanted to be able to have anoher one on my list to be completed and checked off. I was able to make this completely from scraps I had, what a great feeling to know that I use up somthing that could of been tossed. I used the Creative Grid Curvy Log Cabin ruler, I know that it can be done without it but I had it and like how easy and prefect the blocks work up.  The quilt is 90 x 75 Hobbs 80/20 cotton batt and was professional machine quilted on a longarm Gammill using the Methodist Fan Pattern Beside Bob my cat, Elmo and Grover had to inspect my work. Im linking up on the 1st to http://www.juliekquilts.blogspot.com/

Okay I said I'd  probably have no time to sew any but I just had to work on something. So I added the binding to my Log Cabin.  Trying to finish this by the end of the month so I can add it to the list of finishes and link it here   So enough of my simple quilt  on with the beautiful ones from the Dallas Show