Chickens Are Coming!

And the Chicken House is almost ready. Yay! The guys are converting one of the old buildings into a chicken house. It's right near the back door of the house. VERY convenient. The chickens will be able to free range the yard after they are used to knowing where they live. :) That is Phillip putting chicken wire on the frame so the chickens and chicks will be safe from the hawks we've seen flying around lately in the evenings. The front door is on the other side of the building. Miss Lisa will be bringing 2 roosters and a hen in the next 2 days. And then Mary in Snook will be sending up some more egg laying chickens for us. If all goes well. We'll add to that next Spring.

The Hats are In!

I had forgotten that I gave the PO Box as an address. I gave it because we were in the HUGE move to our new place. And here I was sitting all afternoon waiting for the mail lady to deliver the dreaded package. Knowing I was going to "be the one" knocked out of the competition. Instead here comes Deven walking down the drive with a pile of junk mail. I thought I was in the clear. Then on the way to Lou's 80th birthday dinner we stopped at post office. I received a fabulous red hat from UnfinishedKnits today (5:03PM). It seems my hat was delivered to her at 2:30pm so I get to go to the next round. Deven claimed it. It's his most favorite color.

Dinner was really good. My plate anyway. All the boys said no mushrooms, they got mushrooms. Derek is allergic. David has Celiacs (nephew) he ordered gluten free. It came with gluten. And Derek's desert has tree nuts in the brownie (he's allergic) so he had to skip the brownie. The boy is almost 16. In the case of the dessert he should have read the menu description. All in all we had a wonderful time. Its too bad everyone is leaving Friday morning. I love it when they come to visit. They are so well loved here. Hopefully they will still get to come back for Christmas vacation. Then we will have time to visit :D

Yarn Smackdown Update#1

I'm done! yay!! Too bad the PO is closed at noon and it's 4:30. My target is safe for a little while. haha. I really was surprised at how quickly it knit up after the ribbing was over. I used both the optional 6 stitch cables that were offered in the pattern. Even though the yarn Bernat Softee Chunky is rated Bulky, it looks and swatched worsted weight. The color is Nature's Way. It looks like hot chocolate, marshmallows, and blue skies. Deven says it looks like dirt and blue skies....Boys!
Here is a picture of the hat pic

Yarn Smackdown

Yes it finally started this week. The yarn I ordered for this STILL hasn't come in. So the Phillip had to take me to the store Wednesday night to get some so I could get started. After swatching I had the hardest time counting to 104. Finally today I am done with the 6 inches of ribbing. Yay!!! Now to start the cabling. Derek thinks this is the best pattern yet. He loves the whole Vintage WWII thing about it. So I guess I'll be making all my guys one now hahaha I like all the options that are available.

I can say I am not being as nutty as some of the people doing this, and staying up all hours of the day and night knitting non-stop until its done. I do have a other things like a family and those skunks to take care of LOL

Skunk Highway

Yes it's skunk season. We are seeing them dead on the road AND smelling them. But they are near us too. About a week ago one sprayed VERY close to my bedroom window. OUCH!!! Even though it was closed the smell permeated the entire house. Ugh! The only solution was to put on our coats and open the windows so the smell would flow out as quick as possible. This happened again the other night, but I think it was under the house. It was so bad my face burned. It was nasty. Now the dog smells like skunk. Ahh the joys of country living :)

Plants & Spring

We have 144 starter plants in those little mini green house things (2). Seems like they are taking FOREVER to get going. Can you say impatient? LOL The rest of our seeds are the direct in the ground kind.

One tree of ALL the trees on our property bloomed. It has pretty white flowers. I wonder if it is the mystery persimmon tree we were told we had?

An Easter Lily came out of the ground and bloomed out under my bedroom window this week too.

The grass is green and begging for animals :)

I won!

I was one of the lucky people to win a pair of ear rings in the Contest at Mompotter's blog. I posted about it last month. They will be in the mail this weekend. Can't wait to see them. She makes great looking jewelry. Can't wait to see what she came up with :D