More of Summer Harvest

Bright summer sun was very hot and most of the days were cloud-filled, but didn't give us any rain until the grain was all brought in.

Terraces make curves in the rolling plains.

We always had fun during suppertime. Rachel can make anyone smile.

I keep telling them I need a 4-door pickup, but they remind me that my 32mpg Malibu can haul supper in the trunk..and feed sacks too.

No, this picture isn't blurry...it's dirt in the air. The auger goes out and the tractor driver knows to come up beside the combine to get a load of grain. Most of the time this is done without stopping. (but not if I'm driving the tractor!)

Father and son work pretty good together. Even tho son looks more like Mom!
Then the wheat goes into one of the trucks.

Troy scooping to make room for a little more.It then gets tarped for the ride to town.

We usually have a girlfriend to come out and help....I use that term loosely.

Unloading on the go.

Summer Harvest

Harvest this year was the fastest that I've ever seen. We started on a Friday and in 9 days were finished...no rain and no major breakdowns.

This was the last year with the old (MY) combine. We have been wanting to get another newer one and the second day it was advertised...it sold. This is also our new-to-us truck. Of course Troy is the only one who gets to drive it.

There's always somebody who wants to ride in the combine! Before we know it, she'll probably be driving it.


Grain production was actually pretty good this year. The price has been going up, so maybe we can get a decent price for it this year too.

Anybody want a windtower in THEIR backyard?

I have about a kazillion pictures to upload...so more posts to come.

If you have a sec....

Follow this link over to Chris at Deputy's Wife Blog and vote for her to win an AccuQuilt Go Cutter. I would also love to win one, but since her name was drawn over mine.. I'll forgive her and let her win it.

She's a left handed quilter and I know the cutter would help her out tremendously....but she also has a soft spot in my heart cause she's also a mother of THREE boyz! There's gotta be a special place in heaven for all of us mother's of THREE boyz!

I know there are more than several quilters who read my site...'cause there is a site meter on this thing! So..please go vote. Here is even the site if you'd like to just skip over to it!

Thanks mucho...if you need me, I'm spending most of my days out helping with wheat harvest. Pictures will come soon!

Porch Protectors

We call this pair the most vicious animals on the place. If you can get by these two on the porch you're safe.

Rusty will lick you to death, and Gray-Cat will rub your leg off.

On the wall

My DIL calls this "the Madness Quilt". It's a Triple Irish Chain and the squares finish at 1". I've always wanted to do one of these, and why in the world I started one this tiny is beyond me, but I LIKE IT! DIL told me to put the blue with it too...and I LIKE IT! It may be madness but when you work a stressfull job and then you go home to the Bernina and you can make those little squares match up...it's ONE thing I have control over! YEAH!

I haven't decided how big I'm going to make it, but it's going together pretty fast actually.

Giveaway...

Barb over at Bejeweled Quilts if hosting a wonderful giveaway. Register and tell her who sent you over and we could both win an Accuquilt Go! Can't be any easier than that. The Go is one of those inventions like Sliced Bread, a tractor with a cab AND air conditioning, and ziploc bags. The blade on my rotary cutter is getting DULL!

Winnings

Thanks to you guys voting, this is what I received. It's 50 10" squares of Aunt Grace fabric. I'm leaning towards an old fashioned Broken Dish pattern, but I'll take suggestions as to what you think I should make. I love the look of the old-fashioned fabrics.

Participation please...

I sent a submission to a little contest:

The theme this week is Farm Quilts. I've lived on a farm for all but about 6 months of my 40+ years, so defining "Farm Quilts" may be different for me than anybody else.

This is my submission picture:

It's a whole clothesline of string quilts. It shows the old barn, the combine header, the concrete stock tank, the old shop, and the closest town about 8 miles away. If this isn't farm-rural living... I'm sure there are lots of purdy quilts that have animals and barns ON the quilt, but this picture is what first came to my mind. All I ask is that you VOTE for me if you think I need a nice little gift from the Fat Quarter Shop.

Been Busy

We've had the coldest spring on record and more rain than we're use to getting. The wheat fields are georgous and we're hoping for a good crop. Praying that the fungus, bugs and hail don't decide to come in--it's great being a farmer!

This little girl has also kept me busy. Rachel only lives 1/2 mile from me and I see her almost every day...who could resist?! The quilt she's setting in front of is blocks embroidered by her Great Grandma Yoder and put together and quilted by her Mom.

The chair she's setting in belonged to her Great Grandma Rachel. I look at her with amazement every day knowing that she came into this world so tiny.

Yes, I have been sewing and actually got some things back from the quilter.

This is a star pattern from Kaye Woods class that I recently took. The gal setting next to me just happened to be a longarmer and I think I've made a new best quilting friend. She does wonderful work and lives about a mile from my oldest son in Edmond.

We're leaving for Canton, TX the middle of this week and going to spend a couple of days at the First Monday Trade Days. I always come home with a few treasures.

It's March..and it's still cold.

It's so foggy this morning that I could barely see out of the windshield on my drive to work. Thankfully the deer know to stay home on days like this.

It's St. Patrick's Day. They always say everybody's irish on March 17th. My oldest son was suppose to be born on this day, but choose to come two days early. He's now 28...how can that be since I'm only 32?!

I remember being in 3rd grade and if you DID NOT have on green you had to stand in front of the class so you could be embarassed. Being the non-conformist that I am...I've never worn green on March 17th again. Not a drop of Irish in these veins. Where do they get these customs anyway?

My grandpa always said you had to have your potatoes planted on this day and if it would dry up, I'd get out and work in the garden. It's been so wet here that it's impossible to get your hands dirty. I'm SO ready.

I took three quilts to the quilter last weekend. It'll be nice to have something finished.

Cuteness

Can you stand a little cuteness..no, not the two old people in the photo but the purdy little girls that we're holding.

Makes me want to go home and move everything UP three feet!

On the Design Wall

This is a BQ quilt from Maple Island Quilt Designs--the main quilt squares are 6 1/2". and is a very easy quilt to make. During the ice storm, the neighbors (who happen to also be my DS-DIL-GD) stayed with us because they were without power for a week. Since some of us still had to go to work, she worked on this.
The one missing is on the floor!

It's all made out of western prints and is going to have two borders put around it.

I think she did a good job..now, if she's just show back up so we could sew all of those blocks together it would be another finished project!

One Year

One year ago, Miss Mia came into our lives.

We recently celebrated her first birthday--during all the ice storm. She's a precious little girl and I'm so thankful that she lives close enough that we can be a big part of her life.

She's a long-legged, very independent, bundle of sugar and loves her Granny SO much!