Hexies and Stitcheries

 I worked on a couple hexagon blocks yesterday.  I only finished 2 of them but that is still progress. 

 I added them to the pile.  I need to prep more hexagons because I will soon run out of the sets that I have prepped now. 

 I dug out my Halloween stitchery and worked on it a little bit.  Hopefully I will have it done by this Halloween.  LOL! 

 Most importantly, I got so babysit this angel for a few hours yesterday.  :)  She is so precious and very rotten...love her so much.

 Hunter has a friend spending the night tonight so I need to do a little bit of cleaning before I start sewing today.

Sunday Sewing...

 I received an email from a long time reader the other day that really got me thinking.  She said that she always enjoyed reading my blog over the years but that it seemed that in the past year or so that I just "skim" over my day and not give a "rundown" of my day with more details of my family and farm life.  So....here it goes!  :)

I was up and at it early Sunday morning.  Richard worked so I got up a little after 4am and started coffee and breakfast while he showered.  I always fix breakfast but we have a long tradition that Sunday mornings are our "gravy and biscuit" breakfast.  LOL!  He is a country boy!  So he had bacon, gravy, biscuits, and fried apples at 4:30am!  :)  

Soon after he left, I did a little sewing before Church.  I chained pieced until the bobbin ran out.  Then I went back to bed for a bit.  :)  These are pieces for my Windmills, Tumblers II, and some 1.5" squares.  

 Also this is an updated photo of my Halloween Table Runner.  I haven't really had a chance to work on it much with all of the canning that I have been doing lately.  I'm going to try my best to have it completed and ready to display before Halloween. 

 After Church the boys and I went to mom's along with my sister, and my brother's family.  It's nice that mom is so close by.  Mom fixed dinner for us all.  

Once I got back home I started slicing up my jalapenos to make a batch of Cowboy Candy.  I ended up with 10 half pint jars. 

 Here is the recipe if anyone is interested.  Cowboy Candy!

 Cleaned up the kitchen and called it a day.  Mom sent home leftovers for Richard's supper so that was nice that I didn't have to cook.  

I'll leave you with a photo of my precious niece.  I got to babysit the other day and I snapped this photo of her sleeping!  Yep, she fell asleep just like this.  :)  She is such a joy!

I'll have more sewing progress to show you tomorrow!

Halloween table runner progress...

 No canning for me yesterday.  I'm still waiting on a few things in my garden to get ready.  I'm hoping to get back to that and I also need to go pick more apples.  I hate to see them go to waste when I can use them.  

I got caught up on my cleaning.  My house needed a good scrubbing and the past few days I had been canning so I let everything else go.  It doesn't take long for it to get out of control.  

While cleaning I would take a break just every little bit and work on my Halloween Table Runner.  If you remember this is the stitchery that I prepped and took with me on our little trip this past weekend.  I worked on it a little but not as much as I wished that I had.  It isn't that big so it shouldn't take that long. 

The finished item will have a pieced border around it.  Not sure where I will use this table runner as I don't usually decorate for Halloween and it is too small for my dining table.  I'll find a place for it, I'm sure.  

Richard and Andrew work today and Hunter and I will be spending the day mostly relaxing as he starts school Wednesday.  He is dreading it so bad.  He hates school but makes really good grades, he just doesn't like going.  When he was younger he said that school interfered with his playtime.  LOL!  

Busy, busy, busy!

 It has been a busy past few days for us...so let's get started with a little recap.  

Saturday morning we left the house at 5am.  We ended up with a little trip to the Corvette Museum.  Andrew did not get to go because this was a last minute trip and he could not get off work.  Hunter had a blast!  This was about 4.5 hours away from home so it was a good little drive.  

 There were so many beautiful cars.  We really enjoyed the tour. 

 They had the Corvette's displayed that had fallen in the sink hole.  They were just completely demolished. 

 We all love history so on the way back we stopped by the Lincoln Museum.

 I snapped this photo of a couple of quilts that they had on display.  It was a really nice place and very interesting.  Again, Hunter loved it.

 The next stop...Lincoln's Birthplace.  This was built around the cabin to preserve it.  Shew...lot's of steps for this chubby girl.  LOL!

 It was a nice little walk up the steps and not to mention that it was 95 degrees.  LOL!  The park was such a nice place to enjoy.

 This was the cabin inside. 

 We were exhausted Saturday evening when we got home so we didn't really do anything but lay around.  

Sunday after Church, I got to work on some canning! 

 So far since Sunday I ended up canning 21 Quarts of green beans.

 7 Quarts of pinto beans, a total of 26 pints of fried apples, and 4 jars of Root Beer Jelly. 

 This is the rest of the beans and apples.  Over the next few weeks I will have more green beans and apples to can.  I also made some Apple Pie Jam a few days ago too.  I'm not sure if I posted that on here or not.  Anyway, I have been busy and I am exhausted but it feels good to be canning this food.  

Richard was off this past weekend and Saturday we were gone all day.  Sunday after Church he and Hunter brought up some wood to be split for firewood.  We usually go through 8 to 9 cords of wood during a normal winter.  He worked Monday and Tuesday and was off again on Wednesday and they brought up more wood.  It feels weird preparing so much for winter right now when it is in the mid to high 90's with the heat index well over 100, but winter will be here soon and living where we do, we need to be prepared as usual. 

I did actually work on my Halloween Stitchery a little bit while Richard was driving Saturday.  I didn't get a lot done but it is small so it shouldn't take too long to finish it.  I haven't had time to work on it at all since we've been back because of all of this canning.