Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

Today has been a very slow day, I guess it's because of the it is hot out and all I want to do it is veg inside. I have two things I have to work on while sitting in the cool house. I'm getting right along on quilting my daughters quilt.   I notice that one of the fabrics show light in the pictures, but not in person. When I get tired of quilting I can sewing on my other daughters quilt, called Candy Wrapper. Do you notice something odd about one of the rows? Yes I did it again, sewn it together wrong. I don't know how I manage to get it backwards. I had thought after the first time I had been more watchful of how it was arranged. Oh well what could be slower than ripping stitches out. Such a fun pattern. Piecing by hand is very relaxing.

Tonight will be the last time to see the "supermoon" for this year.   Which means the moon is  it closest  to Earth. Image from Earthsky This is what is was in May but this moon is even closer so it will appear larger. If interested for more information here are a couple of links. Earthsky org. huffingtonpost.com What a wonderful event to happen so closely to our summer solstice.

Lisa over at Fresh Eggs Daily has been showing pictures she takes at her farm and then posts them weekly. I have been seeing her pictures all this time and then for some reason I thought I could do something similar. I have this new camera and have not yet learned to use it. I just  keep taking pictures with my IPhone. I do well using my phone but I so do want to learn this new camera. To challenge myself I will try to learn my camera and post the pictures as I learn. I'm not going to pressure myself with a deadline, just a goal to learn how. This time though these are taken on my IPhone. Summer is here on the farm and the old house has stood for another year.

Summertime, Summertime . Here in the Northern Hemisphere we had our summer solstice, I know in the Southern Hemisphere it's your winter solstice.   ( I love winter ) Being summer here means ice tea time, some love it all year but I'm one who drink it mostly in the summer. Sun tea is the way I usually make my ice tea and have for more years than I can remember. For those of you who haven't made this, what I do is use a gallon glass jar, add cold water and I use 8-10 tea bags (cup bags). Sit it outside in the sun and in about 2 - 4 hours it should be done. Now this is my favorite ice tea but I have been introduced to a herbal tea that has become a new favorite. I don't mind herbal teas but just haven't found one I cared for as an iced tea.  My daughter had this at her place when I went there last month and   everyone was ranting and raving about it. So I had to try it to see what all the hooting was about. Well you know what, it is

I have been spending most of my morning off in the veggie patch, beside mowing and weeding the flower beds. The wonderful rain we have had the past month and perfect temps makes everything grow like crazy. MOSTLY WEEDS Seems like I had finished the weeding and its all back, need to start all over again.  After some weeding the beds look so good. These two are just a couple of the beds I have. Thought I had taken more pictures but I didn't, need to take some more to share. Here's one success that I shouldn't have to go back to. Had this spot in the back that I haven't planted much in the past because when I would the deer would think I planted a buffet just for them. It gets depressing and costly. I thought I would try again. Before After with some help from the girls At the local store there was a clearance sale and I purchase some  azaleas. Thinking it would be a good one that the deer won't like. We'll see.

I wanted to give a quick chicken update.  Now I hope I'm not jinxing myself by announcing this, but for the past three days I have gotten the number of eggs I have gotten in the past before the egg bandit started attacking the hen house.  "The Man of the Place" put out a trap  Saturday and caught a raccoon during the day time. So I believe we have caught the culprit. Now that I am announcing this, boy I'm hoping that it's true. The girls seem to be delighted in the fact that there's no intruder eating their food or their eggs.  And so am I.  YEA !!!!!!

After a 15 hour drive yesterday, I'm home again from the Duluth quilt show. The quilts at the show were just beautiful and I enjoyed seeing so much talent in one place. Now that I'm home it's time to unpack.  All of the goodies that I was able to find at the show. When I got home last night it was starting to rain and thunder and I asked the "Man of the Place" if there were any storms while I was gone because when I went to go check my Internet I didn't have any. Sure enough we have had lightning and it blew out my modem and my router. This brief post is coming via my iPhone. So later today after I get out and run errands I need to pick up a new router and modem. And then I'm going to post some of those gorgeous quilts, that have inspired me to get busy on some sewing myself.