A little bit of everything

First thing is TUSAL was due on the 19th of July and today is the 28th. A little late I would say. I have had the orts ready for a picture since the 20th and well who knows what happen to the time. So here is the over due picture.

July 19th TUSAL

Last weekend we had some of my husbands family back from Colorado for a family reunion. They came in on Thursday and left on Monday. Here are a few pictures of our weekend.

The big boys got in on the fun with there little cousins

Sitting on the deck and visiting

going for a ride on a wagon down to the river

My husband drove the tractor

I had lots of help doing my calf chores

My granddaugher bottle feeding one of the calves

on Sunday we had a family reunion picnic.

Just had to snap a picture of my furry friends
Sonny is 3 years old and the little one is 3 months old
Her name is Honey Bear, she is a Red Heeler.

Sharlee love to take a bath in my kitchen
sink even though she is 3 years old
and is a little big for the sink.

Well sorry no updates to show today. Haven't had much time to stitch lately.

Tuesday I had a dentist appointment, Wednesday I spent all afternoon visiting with a girlfriend that I went to school with. Thursday and Friday have been spent with the grandkids. I am hopeing to get some stitching in this weekend, but we will see what happens.

Have a great weekend everyone!!

Happy Stitching

Denise

Progress Report & She Has a Name

Hello everyone! Its a warm one here today. I got up early this morning to get all my chores done while it was cool out. Fed & Watered the dogs and chickens. Finished mowing the yard. Washed DH's work clothes and hung them on the clothes line. Did my supper dishes from last night. Then went to town and got my groceries and was home with the everything put away by 10:00. Then sat on the deck for awhile and watched my dogs play.

Our 3 year old - Sonny and our new addition
6 weeks old - Honey Bear

Thats right we named her Honey Bear but will just call her Honey for now. She is a red heeler. She is getting use to being crated when we are unable to watch her, and does not wince so much anymore.

I can not believe it but I did not get on my computer at all yesterday. No Facebook, No Pinterest, No games, and no Blogger. I am making up for it this afternoon. Already been on here for about 3 hours and still have more to read.

Yesterday I got a lot of stitching time in,(beings I wasn't on the computer) so I need to show you my progress on BoaF.

My last update on this piece was 9/14/2011
Birds of a Feather Mystery sampler
by Brenda Gervais

From my last update I had only done the top line of the alphabet. And now I only have X,Y,&Z left to do. Got the little hill done and started on the house. Planning on getting the house done today, then we will see how I feel from there. 

Sharlee in the puppy crate

Her brothers had hauled the crate down to the garden hose and rinsed it out and when they brought it back to the house they had Sharlee in it. She was having fun going for a ride in it.

Well I thing it time to put a few stitches in.

Have a great weekend everyone

Denise

A little stitching, A lot of running around and a new puppy

OK where do I begin? I have been planning on sitting down and posting for the last couple of days and I kept putting it off soooo...... here goes.

First thing I have not been stitching a whole lot, a little here and there, but I did finish my May ornament.

Baked Goods by Little House Needlework's
30ct R&R Linen - Old Mill Java
and recommended threads.

Heres the deal on this I started it on May 20th and finished it on June 1st. This is the only thing I worked on the whole time. I spent about 10 hours total on it and put in about 1340 stitches, so as you can see not much stitching has been going on. Where has my time been spent you ask, well we are having a family reunion in a couple of weeks and my sister is doing the organizing of it and she has asked for a little help and I have been organizing my family history stuff and printing it out for everyone to have a copy. We also have a couple of cousins coming from Norway at the same time and they will be staying with us, so extra special cleaning is necessary.

I ran across some DVDs at Sam's Club last week and I had read a lot of blogs that had mentioned them, they are called Downton Abbey. I bought the first season on Thursday, when I got home and got everything put away I started watching it (3 disc). Finished watching the last of the 3rd disc on Friday morning. Decided I just had to have Season 2 right away and ran back to Sams Club and bought it. I finished season 2 Friday evening. I never even stitched while it was playing, I tried I really did but I was so into watching this show I kept finding my stitching just sitting on my lap.

My DH laid the last of the concrete on Saturday morning for his new shop.

Laying concrete in front of big doors

laying concrete in front of little doors

we had to write in the cement of course

Sunday I had to help serve breakfast after Mass. for the Catholic Daughters group that I belong too. We served scrabbled eggs, ham, fresh fruit and muffins. There was a very good turn out and we all done cleaning up by 10:30. After I got home I decided that I needed to get some mowing done up at our shop area so I headed up there for a couple of hours, which turned into 5 hours and one hell of a sunburn later. But it got done and my brother in law helped me by moving the junk out of the way, see my DH collects old car and stuff and then it just sits there.

Monday I ran errands for everyone in my family (except for DD1) then it was my turn and I went it and got a mani-pedi. Oh do my feet feel good now!!!! Yesterday I stayed home all day and caught up on my laundry, did some stitching on Birds of a Feather by With thy Needle & Thread. I started this one last year, and I'm hopeing to compete it next. Sorry no picture yet but in my next post.

And last but not least my DH got a new puppy last night. It is a Red Heeler, and she is just weaned off of her mother.

We have not named her yet

Sonny (who is almost 3)
doesn't seem to mind having her
around.

OK that is about it for now. My DH just called and I have to run a motor to Mitchell and drop it off for him. That's an hour drive there and an hour drive back, so if I go now I can be back before it get too warm outside.

Have a great rest of the week!

Happy Stitching

Denise