Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

Today I am what you would say out of it. Yesterday afternoon I had 2 cups of caffeinated coffee (I normally don't do) which kept me up till 2 AM. I get up at six with "The Man of the Place" every morning and like any other morning, was up at six this morning. I need more than four hours of sleep. Without my normal amount of sleep, which is like seven hours, I just feel so out of it.  Passed on any heavy gardening this morning.   watered the seeds planted, water the potted plants on the porch, fed the birds and deadheaded some of my perennial.  Added to that a day of mindless sewing. Started a few spool block and worked on some strips sets  Quilting on the 30's sampler some, I'm down to what I would call the last row. But I haven't decided yet what I'm going to do with the border. I've done mainly outline or in the ditch. I would love to get this one done within the next month or two. I'm such a slow

I love mornings, I look at it like a new start. Which it is, of course. But I just love that feeling. I'm all for new chances.  Anyway, I have walked out of the house with my new prescription glasses on. I'm still getting used to walking with them on, seeing how they are trifocals and I'm not used to that. In the past I would you use readers to do my sewing and reading and the rest of the time go without any type of glasses but now that I have cataracts that are forming and starting to affect my vision. I need glasses all the time now. But still after a month of having them I still don't like walking with them on, especially going downstairs.. I feel like I'm going to trip and fall. So while walking, I put them on top of my head and  enjoy my morning walk slightly blurry, but all the same wonderful My morning walk give me a chance to put my day in perspective While having my morning cup of coffee before my walk I usually make my thing to do list

Right now what's up on my design wall is a blank wall. I had taken everything down yesterday so I could put up my collections of rainbow scrap color blocks to see what it looks like with all the various colors I have already prepared. These are what I have of the spool blocks. Over the weekend we had a series of heavy thunderstorms with a lightning which blew out my modem and router. Today I went down to the telephone company to get a new modem, because that's who provides the modem. Then I have to go to the store and buy a new router. Then I will be up again But for now I am writing this through my blogger app on my iPhone. Thank Goodness for that. So before I went for my walk, I went to let the chickens out of the house and see how everything is. "The man of the place" had over the weekend put up some wire where the chicken wire was starting to deteriorate . Had to fill in the hole again from the groundhog.  In the proces

Was able to get these two blocks done to add to the spool blocks. Need to do a little more but until then I will go ahead and share this at So Scrappy Today I was able to spend time with my youngest daughter. We met in Tulsa and went to the Gilcrease Museum to see the showing of  California Impressionism: Selections from The Irvine Museum Granville Redmond California Oaks oil on canvas, 1910 30" x 42" This was one of my favorites,  but before I left I started the process of making Lime Pickles. I had not known of Lime Pickles till I moved to Oklahoma. They are very easy to make and are pretty much fool proof. Start with Mrs. Wages Pickling Lime, soak your cucumber slices in the lime water all day or night Then you rinse, soak in ice water for a few hours and then the vinergar/spice brine overnight and then I'll can them tomorrow. I finished this portion that was in the hoop and now on to another part.

Mother nature decided to give us a taste of fall here in North East Oklahoma the past couple of days. I woke up this morning with the temperature at 60's and you could not ask for any more pleasant weather. So the first thing I did was to get dressed, after my coffee, and go outside to just drink up this beautiful blessing Before I took my walk I decided to check the traps by the chicken house none in that trap but  Lo and behold I have one trapped underneath the birdfeeder by the back porch. Jeez Louise this makes seven in the past four days. I thought they lived in like dens and they would have a certain amount of area that they would consider their feeding grounds. How many can you have that one area? And another thing they must breed like bunnies So after my walk I went out to the garden and did a little more weeding, pick some more veggies, and planted a few seeds for my fall garden. I also took a picture of the dish I mention yesterday t

It is meal like tonight is why I work so hard growing my own food.  This morning the weather was perfect and I spent my time out in the garden. With the extreme heat and humidity before the quilt show last week I didn't feel right about starting the fall crops. I believe they would of just burned up, especially seeing how I wouldn't be around to tend to the seeds. So I was out there prepping a bed to plant, when it dawned on me that I hadn't dug the potatoes up. Some of the plants are still green plants, I believe those to be the purple ones. But there were some that had died back I say a month ago and I knew if I didn't dig them up soon they would start sprouting and growing.  Well sure enough as I was digging I came across a couple of new plants. Had a thought.... I have never grown a fall crop of potatoes so I left those plant in the ground and even added some more dirt to give them a good start. Will see what happens, It is the right time to pl

I would like to tell you about the invaders we have in the hen house. First of all we have had many invaders into the hen house. I have written about some on the blog and some were  prior to having a blog. We have had snakes, rodents, possums, dogs, and even a Red tailed Hawk  invade their house. And then there is what they've had to encounter while roaming around looking for bugs and such. We've had bobcats, coyotes, pack of dogs and a chicken hawk.  Our latest invaders to the hen house are twofold. First we've had a groundhog that decided it needed to burrow it's house inside the hen house. hard to see but it's in the far right corner We tried to flush it out with water, which didn't work. So "the Man of the Place" shoveled the dirt back in the hole but it dug it out again. Haven't seen it myself.  Then we had an invasion of raccoon's who pulled the chicken wire (that was securing an opening for ventilation)