December

It's Tuesday, December 21st. This time tomorrow we'll have a new addition to the family. With all of the sadness of death, we do know that life goes on. IF the machines are all correct, we'll have a Grandson. Have no idea what they're going to name him...the Dad (my middle son) won't even give us a hint!

I'll be off work (using use/lose annual leave) until the beginning of 2011. You can bet I'll be in the sewing room in between rocking the new baby, playing with Grandaughters and cooking for all of the guests that come in.

Will post some pictures as I have time!

Enough is Enough!

Besides having a FIL to pass away, DH had an uncle and DIL had a Grandmother to go. I've had several people tell me that tragedy always comes in three...so ENOUGH!

But, in all the sadness guess who came to visit?!

Mia will turn 2 in January. She has her own language and jabbers non-stop. I hate to admit it, but she loves PaPa more than me...but, how can I top a ride in the tractor!

Sad News

We received a phone call this morning, something we knew would happen eventually but still not ready. A phone call telling us that my FIL had passed away. Alzheimers is an ugly disease.

I'm listening to Show 712: The Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative (Ami Simms) a project that I really want to participate in. He was a good man and a good Grandad to my boyz.

We'll miss him.

Milo Planting

I realize I'm a little behind, but found these pictures on my camera and thought I'd bore you a little.

If you look close you can see green plants already growing in this field. This is from the first time we planted. It was so hot and dry this summer, that not even half of the seeds came up...so we re-planted.

Grandpa has a GPS on his tractor. He stays away from my quilting machine, and I don't touch the GPS. Fair to me 'cause I can get home by myself! He actually uses it to plant straight rows and when they're spraying fields so rows don't get sprayed twice. I know how it works, but don't want to learn how to use it. I'd rather be in the sewing room while they're doing this.

This really shows the bare spots in the field. The dead stubble is from last year's crop. We No-Till crops which means we don't over-work the fields.

Troy working REAL hard. I think he was dreading going back to school in a few days.

This is an EXACT measurement. Counting steps. So somebody tell me that they do this too? Troy's feet are a few inches longer than Dad's tho.

We had early milo and late milo. This is a picture of Milo that actually made a crop and we harvested about a month ago. If you buy bird seed, there is probably yellow or red milo mixed in with it. Most of what we raise goes to feed cattle.
This is the new semi (my Birthday present) that I can't drive because it takes a LEFT foot to push in the clutch! But, I don't drive it because I CAN'T drive it...it likes Troy and DH shifting better than me.

Leave me alone...

I'm busy sewing MaMa....what do you want? I can't concentrate when you talk all the time.

Deer Season

Opening day of Deer season. (notice I didn't say Deere?) Nobody get squimmish on me but we do process our own deer and we do eat the meat.

This is three less chances of me getting a new hood ornament!

My ouchie.

If you didn't know what happened to me...I tore a tendion in the side of my foot and stretched out a ligament in the top of my foot....Should say I tore a tendion in the summer of 2009 and they JUST NOW figured out why I was hurting so bad!





Nice surgon said that I'd be in a hard cast for four week...do you KNOW how long FOUR WEEKS is? Especially when you're on crutches. It felt like 4 months!



This is the soft cast that I wore for the first week. It was heavy and I hurt SO bad. Loritabs are wonderful for pain and between DH and DIL, they keep me sleeping a lot this first week.

The red cast I got on next. Luckily it was warm enough that I would set outside once in awhile so Rachel and the cats would keep me company.

The blue cast went on after I got the 11 stitches out. The scar isn't too bad, but even now after 6 weeks the foot won't quit swelling.

The doc said it would take a full ten months to be totally healed. I'll just be glad when #1 the pain is gone, and #2 I quit limping.

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Enough whining about myself! Let's go sew!

New Toy

Do you want another hint to my new "toy" or do you just want me to show it to you?
















She's a 1994 Nolting. Actually found her on Craig's list in the NE part of the state. The lady had owned her for three years and NEVER used her. She wanted a computerized machine and was not going to use this one until she got the new one!

I've learned how to thread the machine wrong, how to not load a quilt correctly and probably a few other things backwards too. It'll take some time, but she purrs like a dream.

She's not computerized nor does she have anything fancy on her, but we get along great! I found a baby panel and practiced on it and I think this is the beginning of something new and exciting.