The Old Folks Home

[Fields Mountain Farm]

The suns shinning and clouds seem to be moving out. Pretty blue sky! Hope it stays that way. Finally got the inside brooder moved out to my milk room.

 

[pertnear09]

The suns shinning and clouds seem to be moving out. Pretty blue sky! Hope it stays that way. Finally got the inside brooder moved out to my milk room.

I'm sure you're glad to finally see the sun. Hope you enjoy your sunshiny day.

 

[room onthebroom]

So today is gonna be a lazy recliner day.

Hope y'all's weekend is off to a good start

My favorite kind of day!!! I hope you enjoy it!

We are suppose to get sun for a few days! Finally! I hope it dries up enough to get the grass cut! It's way to high for my comfort. A 6' rat snake was curled up in one of the nest boxes and had eaten all the eggs! Our chickens would not even go in the coop for several days. They stayed in the back of the run that we had enclosed for the chicks at one time. It's protected on 3 sides so they felt safer out there till the knew the snake was gone for sure. Poor girls. Dh and I ran it off. Dh said he was not as brave as me to grab it by the tail like I did. I told him I only did it to protect the hens and the babies we had in the coop at the time. It's amazing what you will do for something you care about. Cuz I am terrified of snakes! To bad we don't have a quivering emoticon.

Ugh! Snakes are my Kryptonite. We have a couple King snakes in the yard & even though they freak me out, I tolerate them because I'm hoping they'll keep the rattlers out. One of them has been here for years & is getting pretty darn big. If I ever find one in the coop (or 6' long) I seriously might drop dead.

 

[ronott1]

Everyone else seems to have gotten rain but it's been pretty dry here. Even a tropical storm coming by me a hundred miles to the east only gave a slight mist for an hour or so. I've seen the huge storm fronts trekking east over the northern parts of the country and all the rain in the SE from the same tropical storm/depression.

Finally got blasted very late last night into this morning. Started about 11pm and non typically was moving from north to south. Only got about an inch of rain but the lightning and thunder was continuous and impressive! Almost constant and house shaking. Many times I'll go outside to watch storms (covered deck or carport)... not last night... way too much lightning and way too close for comfort.

I had started mowing one of my pastures yesterday with no knowledge that the storms last night were coming. Gonna be a few days before it will dry out enough to continue. So today is gonna be a lazy recliner day.

Hope y'all's weekend is off to a good start

What is rain? It might rain here next October. That is one of the joys of a Mediterranean climate--no rain in the summer

 

[room onthebroom]

What is rain? It might rain here next October. That is one of the joys of a Mediterranean climate--no rain in the summer

No chance of rain in my future either. You guys up north will get it sooner than we will down here. I cant wait for October, we still wont have any rain down south, but at least it'll start to cool off a bit by then. (I also have 'a thing' for pumpkins & October is glorious pumpkin season.)

 

[superchemicalgirl]

It's done!!

 

[pertnear09]

It's done!!

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Very nice. So much patience must go into something like that.

 

[Alaskan]

@superchemicalgirl

You doing that row by row quilt thing this year?

I was thinking I could grab you a few while I am galivanting about...if you wanted them.

 

[Alaskan]

I actually thought of you in podunk nowhere Texas...when the historical museum lady started talking quilts...and said there was a quilt shop next door...I went in and asked for you...but that was last week...they said it hadn't started yet.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I actually thought of you in podunk nowhere Texas...when the historical museum lady started talking quilts...and said there was a quilt shop next door...I went in and asked for you...but that was last week...they said it hadn't started yet.

Thank you.

It started on the 21st. I'm not planning on grabbing many of them this year, I still have quite a few from 2015 that I haven't worked up, yet, and a giant "to do" list of non RxR patterns I want to complete. There's one row with momma hen and chicks in Washington state that I think is cute and saw posted on facebook, and I certainly wouldn't die without it, but if you're there at a participating quilt shop you could grab that pattern for me - the row patterns are free (don't spend money on me).