Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

There is a couple of sayings that come to mind, one is too many irons in the fire and the other is running around like a chicken with its head cut off. That's how I've been feeling these past few weeks. With my garden growing so well and I'm harvesting everyday which means I've been very busy. I love growing my own food but then there is time consuming process of preserving it for later use. And then there is my love for knitting, crocheting, quilting, embroidery, oh heck  just about any kind a needlework or piecework. Plus there is reading, lately the only way I able to get to read a book is by listening to it.  So things I like take so much time and it's just doesn't seem to be enough. I think everyone experiences that from time to time. So as the saying goes I do have a lot of irons in the fire.  So with my knitting I haven't been able to do hardly any lately. So all I can show you is again some projects that I started and are not finished. 

This year I've had a really good crop of tomatoes. I've been able to can, freeze and make salsa but I thought I would try to make some dried tomatoes in the oven. Back in California where the humidity being so low and it seemed like it was sunny all the time and it was easy to do sun dried tomatoes outside. But here in Oklahoma with all the humidity, I didn't see how that it would be  possible to do it outside so I got on the Internet and look around to see what it would take to do it an alternative way, seeing how I don't  have a dehydrator.   Found various information and from that I just kind of put it all together and this is how I did my sun dried tomatoes.  I took the small romas that I had and cut them in half and seeded them out. Then I placed them on a wire rack on top of my cookie sheet. A lot of them said that you could just use a cookie sheet that was not aluminum or you could put parchment paper down. But there is one that had done it

This week I have been so busy out in the garden that I haven't done much else. Between harvesting  weeding and planting the fall crop that is all I was able to get pictures of. But I believe that one of the most beautiful thing is vegetable plants, so here are some of my beauties. 

Last Friday I have my morning cup of coffee while watching the Morning News on 6 out of Tulsa. Well that morning they had someone come in to show how to hypnotize a chicken. I found it so funny and amazing that I thought I would share it with you.  Watch: 6 In The Morning Crew Hypnotize A Chicken From 1934 a short clip on Hypnotizing a chicken

Boy thank goodness there was something to watch yesterday because it took me around 5 hours to clean up 16 lbs of green beans to can today. I have had the first batch in the canner, 7 qts.  but every now and then this happens. Over time from use a jar will weaken and breaks. It was a clean break so the beans are not ruined with glass pieces so I'll not waste them and give those to the chickens. So to what I'll work on while waiting is what I was hoping to get done last night and that is to make the circle for my LE and applique them on. Then I have a binding I would like to put on my round robin christmas quilt. I plan on taking this with me tomorrow to the 30's Club at Sager Creek Quilt Shop to work on between groups. I just love how this quilt turned out. I am still waiting to receive pictures of all the participants quilts. I want to share them and how beautiful and different they turned out. But until then you just get to see

I have more than some piecework planned for today. Yesterday I picked 16 lbs of green beans which I need to prep and clean for canning and freezing. So while watching last season episodes of "Breaking Bad" getting ready for the start of the new episodes later tonight. Then when I'm done with them, I am working on prepping some more blocks for the Pea Ridge Lily. And if I have enough time I'm going to make the circles for the ring the surrounds the compass to my Love Entwined. I have the pattern put together and next is I need to make the templates for this month part.  There are the triangle shapes, flowers and the floating flowers. Then there is the zig-zag border and as you can see it is 1 1/2 wide by 3/4 inch  pieces in this border.  But all of that is for another day, I have enough to do already. I hope your Sunday is slow and enjoyable. Linking up to  http://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/

We have had unusual amount of rain here, especially for August. Which has been a great benefit for all that I have growing in my gardens. So I thought I would share some of the beauty I been seeing.