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[Alaskan]

Knew of an Itasca but not Italy and I been here 66 years. But then I don't get out much.

I like reading through all of the town names in Texas, there are some odd ones:

Coffee City
Cool
Ding Dong
Cut and Shoot
Bacon
Raisin
Tarzan

 

[pennyJo1960]

that quilt is very nice love the scroll work mine are all quite plane by comparison

 

[pennyJo1960]

actually understand the name had one but did not call it vomit just ugly
@Bunnylady sure glad ours are garter snakes probably less than half that size

 

[room onthebroom]

I like reading through all of the town names in Texas, there are some odd ones:

Coffee City
Cool
Ding Dong
Cut and Shoot
Bacon
Raisin
Tarzan

I could live in a place called Coffee City!

 

[pertnear09]

I could live in a place called Coffee City!

I've heard there's a place called Burning Stump Nebraska. Of course Jack Benny is the one who mentioned it so I don't know.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I like reading through all of the town names in Texas, there are some odd ones:

Coffee City
Cool
Ding Dong
Cut and Shoot
Bacon
Raisin
Tarzan

What would it cost to get some photos of you next to the signs welcoming you to one of these towns? Welcome to Ding Dong?
Ding Dong is a favorite expression of mine - better than airhead.

Wow SCG you are so talented!!! My sewing skills are pretty much nonexistent. A pipe dream of mine is making tshirt quilts for myself & the kids. I have huge Tupperware bins full of old shirt's, but I've been too scared to start.

I started sewing and quilting just a few years ago, and started with the fancy free motion quilting last January. You'll be amazed if you practice what you can do in a short period of time.
Not to be a harpy, but it's okay if your projects aren't perfect. They'll still be used and loved. In real life I'm a big perfectionist, and when I started sewing I'd drive myself nuts stitching and then not being happy with it, and ripping it out, over and over. I eventually started watching some professional quilters stitch on craftsy and youtube, and their stitching wasn't perfect. And one of them said, no one ever became a better quilter by ripping stitches out. So unless the tension is way off and it'll fall apart, I don't rip and try not to worry too much on it. It's made it much more enjoyable. A finished project that isn't perfect is better than the project you want to finish perfectly but are too scared to start.
With t-shirt quilts, I will tell you that you'll want to probably purchase some kind of light stabilizer and iron that to the back of the cut shirt, because they're real stretchy and will drive you a bit bonkers working with them, otherwise.

that quilt is very nice love the scroll work mine are all quite plane by comparison

Plain is okay, too. I definitely overquilted this one, it isn't quite as soft and snuggly as it should be. I was using it for quilting practice (a friend who has never sewed before wanted to learn to sew/quilt and we chose this project as her first quilt and I sewed along so I could show her close ups of how to do it over facebook messenger and I took the opportunity to practice some quilting motifs that I hadn't previously attempted).


I'm finally allowed to work in my town cemeteries. It's going to start raining about 6 pm, think I'll get my probe and my stuff to clean a few graves and head out. There's 3 cemeteries on my road - 2 of which are going to require repairs, but I need to probe to try and determine what kind of repairs... before I can clean those.

 

[chickisoup]

Good morning everyone

Wow, you all are a chatty group this morning! I still have to go back and get caught up!

Think I will try and get pics today when more of the hardware is installed but,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
FINALLY! All that's left is to cut the new pophole thru the outer wall and construct the added roost and catchboard and the coop addition, along with the remodel of the older half, is done! It took so long (seems like forever) because just like the original half, it is double walled, fully insulated including walls, ceiling and floor and completely varmint and bear proof. Yesterday I scrubbed the floor and walls and finished the new coat of paint in the old section so it matches the new. Pa hung the door for the divider onto the new barn door tracking hardware I picked up super cheap last month at a Menard's flash sale. The steel roofing is already on but the steel siding for the addition will have to wait. Not really a problem since the walls are more than thick enough on their own but I just want that added barrier of protection against to weather (and bear) like the old section already has. Altho the bear haven't been a problem so far since none have managed to get thru our fences but not for lack of trying as all the dents and bends can attest to. I still haven't had time to repair my poor large windchime that the cubs decided to turn into a "baby" toy a couple weeks ago. It was cute watching the little stinkers trying to pull the pipes up into the tree, at least until the whole thing went crashing to the ground when the cords broke. Mom was just a bit too large to refer to as cute.

Oh, and I now have a black, and soft white, Australorp. Long story short, I have a BA that decided this past week to go super broody. I had her blocked out of the nestboxes so she was flattened out on the coop floor in front of the boxes while I was painting. She was under the catchboard to the roosts and I left her alone until I had to paint under there. I finally had to move her out of the way so I slid her out and stuffed her out the door, crawled under the catchboard and continued painting. I didn't see her sneak back in until I was shifting to reach another area and noticed her. The crazy bird had stuck her butt into the air and backed herself tightly into the far corner and laid back down. Only problem was that was the last place I had painted before moving her and the crazy bird had managed to literally stick herself to the walls! She now has paint smeared on both sides and her once gorgeous fan that she could flair out so large she looked like a turkey when she puffed up, looks like I took her the beauty parlor and got her tips frosted! She finally went stomping out of the coop on her own, screaming all the way, I think she didn't appreciate me laughing so hard at her my sides were hurting .

 

[getaclue]

Awww, a speckled Australorp.

Bunny, it's not the size of the pic, it's the content. You are brave.

 

[chickisoup]

SCG- your quilt is just beautiful as always. I still envy your talent and eye for pattern and color.

Bunny-only came across one large snake up here and that was enough for me. An occasional pine snake can show up (not exactly poisonous but the bite can make you sick) but mostly we just have grass snakes. They are just a little brighter than garter snakes and have a LOT more attitude. Threw one out of the chicken garden just the other day because it was scaring my two not so brave Wyandottes. I also don't like them because my silly pup decided one looked like a lot of fun a couple years ago and it cost me several hundred dollars and part of her eyesight to get the infection she contracted from the bite to her face cleared up.

 

[getaclue]

chicki, I had not heard of the "paint method" for breaking a broody. Live, and learn.