Monday, May 5, 2008

A Great Day On The Layne Farm!

Hi all! Today has been a fairly nice day. For some reason I have felt better today than I have in several months! Far from perfect but pretty good! After getting the boys off to school this morning, I drove in to town. I had to stop by Richard's Grandmothers to check her cord on her dryer, she needs a different hookup than what she has. Anyway, came back home watered the horses again and cleaned a little bit in the house.

Mom came out for a few minutes, which was very nice. We just sat around and talked. I showed her my book for the Dear Jane quilt and she thought I was crazy!!! Which I knew that already :) Then Richard called on his cell to tell me he found a very good deal on a toy for the boys! I guess he just wanted to get my okay on it, but I'm sure he would have bought it anyway. So here they are playing on there new TOY!




Needless to say, they LOVED IT! It took forever to get them to park it! It is real nice, it has harness seat belts, roll cage, lights, mirrors, and even a horn and lighter (and none of us smoke) They had a blast! I was so glad that they liked it. And even hubby and I took it for a ride. Or should I say I took hubby for a ride!!!!! Anyway, it should be lots of summer fun for the boys!

Oh and here is a photo of the field down the road from the house. I just thougt it looked so pretty with all of the little yellow flowers!

Mom and I will be making the trip in to town in the morning. I have to have more bloodwork done and then I have to take Hunter by the doctor. If you remember he had surgery March 24 down on his private area. Well his stitches still haven't come out. I have called a couple of different doctors several times to see if they will take them out. They all tell me the same thing "Oh, don't worry, it make take a few months but they will come out on their own" Well, I've just never heard of them staying in this long and the skin is growing over them. And now he has little pockets of infection around several of the stitches. I counted and he still has almost 30 stitches in there!!!! So I am taking him tomorrow and I am going to DEMAND that something be done before he gets in the same shape he was before!!!

Not really any sewing today! I did work a little bit on a basket and I got all of my things out to work on my Civil War Diary quilt. Hopefully, I will make some progress on it within the next few days.
KristieDonkey

Sunday, May 4, 2008

I'm sooooooo tired!!

This is my first post for the weekend. I usually post pretty much everyday but I have been working my butt off! We decided to fence in a little more of the property, to make the horse pastures bigger. So we decided to do one side at a time, since we have to keep some of the horses seperated. We started with the side were we keep Ole Jim and Bullet. We started on Saturday and finished up today! This was a little over a mile around it and we fenced with two strands of barbed wire. And let's just say this is not flat or clean land that we fenced...completely wooded area! The photos are a little bit dark but you can get an idea of what I am talking about.


And here is a photo of Hunter with his BB Gun that he had to take with him while we were fencing on Saturday. Before anyone freaks out...it is a BB Gun and I had the BB's in my pocket and he only shot it when we were taking a break and we were right there with him. Oh, and Andrew missed all of the fun because he was at his uncle's all weekend.

I recieved this wonderful package from Carla. I had mentioned that I wanted to start the Dear Jane quilt so she sent me her book. She went through alot of work to make this book work for her. She had the spine removed and all of the pages are in plastic in this binder.

She also sent me this cute litte shelf sitter! It is soooooo cute! Right now I have him sitting beside my sewing machine but as soon as we get the house finished he will be displayed in my new sewing room!!!! So Thank You very much Carla for being so nice.

The only sewing thing that I got done this weekend was this bowl. I wrapped the clothesline while watching tv late at night. You can't really tell much about it from the photo but this is 100ft of clothesline.

Last but not least....if you haven't already make sure you register here for my 300th post giveaway. I will be drawing a name on May 16!!!!!






Thursday, May 1, 2008

300th post giveaway!

This my 300th post!!! I have met and enjoyed so many fellow quilters since I started this. I always find myself inspired and amazed by so many of you. And I want to Thank You so much for taking the time to read my blog, it really means alot to me.

Since this is my 300th post, I thought I would do a little giveaway!!!!!

Here is a photo of the prize!

* Two-Block Theme Quilts by Claudia Olson 95 pages
* Welcome The Seasons by Fig Tree Quilts
* Stitcher's Tote pattern by Bernina
* Old Time Santas pattern by Gooseberry Hill
* And I just might throw in something extra...

Now I will be drawing a name on May 16th!! So that should give everyone plenty of time to comment. All you need to do is...

* Comment on this post that you would like to be entered
* Post about it on your blog and add a link back to here
* Make sure that I can reply to your comment or I have your email address, in case you win!

That should be about it! Have fun and good luck!!!!
Kristie