Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

What is up today. I hope it is the sewing I wanted to get to this past weekend which I wasn't able to with the event of having a house guest, to know more here's a link Yes, I have had a calf in the house for the past 24 hours but she made it through the crisis and now she is in the garage for now. I still need to keep bottle feeding her and watching her to make sure she is strong enough to go back out to her mom.  The sooner the better for her. So what I plan on doing are the 2 months of Stash Bee blocks. These are the ones for my hive that I have to get done and in the mail. Tanya made this as an example Emily made this one as an example And then there is still my Get-R-Done for the month. I hope to have progress on those to show later this week. So there it is, a little sewing news and life on the farm news too

She is doing better. Made it through the day and even stood up and walked around a little. IN THE HOUSE. Did get another 24 oz down her. She should be eating twice the much but she is not uses to drinking from a bottle and she is still in a weaken state. But need to get fluids in her so she doesn't dehydrate. Here is another picture of her This doesn't happen often having a calf walking around your living room. The problem is they are not house broken.

I have to admit it didn't start out slow here. Yesterday while the "Man of the Place" was out checking the cattle he notice the calf that Joy (one of Snicker's offspring) had last weekend wasn't doing well. So we moved her and the calf from the pasture up to the corral to try to figure out what was going on. The calf looks like it hasn't eaten in a while so we check Joy's utter and milk.  She looked as thou she hadn't nursed much and there was blood in her milk.  We decided to give the cow a shot of antibiotics and try to give the calf a bottle of milk replacement.  The little thing barely got down 3 cups. By this time it was around 4 in the afternoon and we would just let the calf digest that bottle and we would check on her in the morning.  Well wouldn't you know that this had to be the morning that cold front from the north finally made it with some snow. And the poor little calf had made no improvements, she was weaker. Had to take

I forgot to mention earlier that it's FNSI Go over to Heidi's and check out who else is sewing tonight. I'm going to work on my daughter's quilt  I'm going to start stitching the rows together. I'm making this a short blurb so I can get back to sewing. I hope you are able to be sewing on something too.

This is such a sweet story. Last Monday at a quilt group I belong to, at the end of the meeting there is always a time for show and tell. I look forward to see what everyone has been up too. We have such an eclectic group of talented ladies. A member named Sandy told as the story behind this quilt.  (I hope I get this right Sandy) While Sandy was visiting family she offered to make her young niece a quilt.  Her niece went and drew a picture of the quilt she would like that included her in the bed with her cat.   It included a short note;  Hi aunt Sandy i just wanted to thank you for offering to make me a quilt. Love Stella But she also went a little further and painted a picture of the quilt. I like the detail in the fabric strips. Polka dots, stars and stripes So Sandy had a good idea of what her niece would like. But then Sandy received an email with a picture of this quilt stated she like this one too So Sandy got busy and finished Stella a

Help I'm getting ahead of myself, first things first What I am listening to this week in the book The Book Thief I'm on the fifth chapter right now and I can say I'm enjoying this book very much. It is told through the voice of a soul taker. Right now I can not totally put my finger on whom the soul taker is. Whether it's holy power, the devil or grime reaper. Haven't figured that out yet but despite that it is very captivating. Again here is what the publisher has to say about the book.   Book Description Release date:  September 11, 2007 It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . . Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak’s groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when

This evening for dinner I tried just roasting the Butternut Squash in a little Olive oil and seasoned with minced garlic and salt & pepper. This was my the first attempt and I think I needed to add a little more seasoning.  Next time I will. It has been my week of flops.  Saturday I thought I would make some Irish Soda Bread for St. Patrick's day. Mixed it, and put it in the oven and it had been in the oven nearly the complete time for baking when I realized I put baking powder instead of baking soda in my bread. Needless to say it didn't rise and when cooled down it was hard as a rock. But when it came out of the oven "the Man of the Place" who was being so sweet because he could tell I was very disappointed in myself, said he wanted a piece anyway since I went to all that trouble. If you could of only seen his expression as he was choking it down.  The chickens sure enjoyed it the next day. I'm linking up with Judy