I have started another new blog, an autism blog.

Hugs by the Pound   Link is also in the far right column ——> over there

I will do a lot of updating on Gregorys successes over there and keep our daily life adventures here.

Please be sure to add it to your favorite blogs and visit often.

During the kids spring break, we went to visit with Curt (works with Mike) at his farm. Curt is helping mentor us with information and advise for our new farm. Here’s lots of photos…enjoy!

We were there for hours…we had so much fun!

That lamp oil would be so hard to find.

We have started a new tradition at our house. Each night, we eat dinner over oil lamp light. We turn off the lights and fire up the oil lamps. It’s really quite a nice thing we have started.

Now that daylight savings time has changed, we don’t do this much at dinner time since it’s still daylight outside. Instead we light the oil lamps after dark while we watch tv, play games, etc. Not only is it saving electricity, it’s quaint and cozy. We like that.

For the past three days, I’ve been on a scavenger hunt for lamp oil. I can’t beleive there is not any to be found in Amarillo (well at least on the west side, that is). I have gone to 4 different places and nada…no lamp oil to be found. UGH.

Thank heavens for the absolute neatest store I found online several months ago, Lehmans. They carry lamp oil year round, along with TONS of other self-sufficient and homesteading products. By the way, if you’d like to see a very unique “Amish” site with thousands of products, click here!

As well as oil for my lamps, I found the “granny” fork that I have been wanting for years. My mother had one she used constantly when cooking and I’ve never been able to find one.  Now I have.

Have a great day and a fun time parusing Lehmans site!

Go check out this nice giveaway over at Down on the Farm!  She has some wonderful wool bags in her store, too. Link to the store is on her blog!

Click the arrow to work this pretty spring time puzzle for yourself.

Petunia, our Chihuahua, had her puppies last night, four healthy little ones.

Chicks are hatching as I type this.

I’ll post more details and photos later today or tomorrow!

Catching up on shipping packages from sales on my etsy store and ebay fiestaware sales.

Continuing to declutter and stashbusting to list more and more things on etsy and ebay. (my ebay user is stepfordhousewife).  You can see the link to my etsy store over in the far right hand column.

Working on two new blogs: Oh Chicken Feathers! (still needs some work) and Calling It Quilts (am loving the look of this, just a few tweeks left)

Dealing with Gregory and yet another stomach “bug”

We worked on the farm doing some clean up on Sunday afternoon. It was GREAT!

Working on getting some quilt block swaps and other swap things out of here….yup, I signed up for way too many swaps than I need to do all at once. (Note to self….pace yourself)

So…not alot, no excuse for being gone from here for nearly 2 weeks!  I plan to do better.

Have a great rest of the weekend!

I’ve been quite preoccupied lately and haven’t posted like I should.

I thought the best way to catch up would be to catch up with photos.

Here we go!

Here are some pictures of our farm. It is pretty much a “clean slate” for us to start with, just a small amount of clean up work. We will plant fast growing trees around the back and side property lines as a windbreak and also to hide the view behind us.

February 20 would have been my Mother’s 84th birthday. We had our first two Serama’s hatch that day. Felicity named the first to hatch Tina. I named the second to hatch Nonnie. That is what my Mother’s grandkids called her, and being her birthday, I felt it appropriate. If it turns out it’s a boy, we will call him Jack instead. Jacqueline was my Mother’s middle name.
This is Tina.

This is Nonnie. The baby chicks love Beanie Babies to nestle up to.

Here are the two of them together.

Gregory loves to hold the chicks and is a very good incubator monitor. Here he is holding Tina.

We also celebrated the birth of our first Naked Neck (Turken, aka Transylvania Naked Neck) chick. Her name right now is Liza, but if it turns out to be a boy, will be Curly.

Mike once told me he thought the Sicilian Buttercup chickens were pretty neat. Since they are on the critically endangered list, I though I would surprise Mike with some eggs for these chickens. He thought it was neat, but we figured we wouldn’t be able to keep the chicks, since they are LF (large fowl, meaning full size chickens, not bantams). Well, once we signed the papers on the farm, he decided he wants to keep them and raise the breed. Here are his first chicks to hatch this past week.

Here’s ONE ROTTEN CHICKEN, Gabe!

Yet another baby in the house, Bunny is her name.

I am participating in Judy’s Quilt a Long over on her blog at PatchworkTimes. Here are the HST (half-square triangle) sections that were the assignment for part 2.

Last but not least…a full incubator! 75 eggs inside!

Have a wonderful Sunday evening!

Here’s my breakdown for week 8 & 9.

Fabric added this week:  0
Fabric added year to date:  24.5

Fabric used this week:  4 (some used, some sold on etsy)
Fabric used year to date:  31

Yarn added this week: 0 skeins
Yarn added year to date:  3 skeins

Yarn used this week:  0 skeins
Yarn used year to date:  7 skeins