New Knitting Project

Can you guess who this is for?

I'll give you a hint..... Its being made out of baby weight yarn :)

AND,,,, I am successfully knitting on 3 ( thats three) needles!!

Anyway, I am making baby leg warmies and a hat to match for Baby Maddie. I do have one of the leg warmies complete and working on the other. I will post when I get this project finished.

Knitting Projects

I posted the beginning of my knitting venture a while back. Daughter Tina had started me on it as I was re-couping this summer. I did get my shawl finished ...



and the back view ....

Plenty easy ; just knit 4 purl 4 until its the length you need.

Then I saw these amazing dishcloths, and just had to try my hand at that. Natural color cotton yarn with red stripes, done in a waffle-weave pattern. (I varied the designs)....

and with blue stripes.....

I have quite a pile of these started for .... well... whatever

They were fun to do, good practise, and functional as well.

I am now started on another knitting project, which I will post later.

I like knitting in the evenings, when it is too dark to paint (I like good daylight to do my oil painting) and when I am too tried to do anything else. It keeps my hands busy while Hubby is watching TV and eating ice cream :0

New Grand baby!!!

Introducing Miss Maddison Renae Jackman! weighing in at 5 1/2 #, 18" long, arrived yesterday afternoon.

Because of the age of her mom and previous complications, 3 times weekly monitoring was neccessary for the safety of both Mom and Baby. Gwen was able to carry her till the last 2-3wks of third trimester. Monitoring yesterday morning showed the placenta had died and the baby had lost weight, so a c-section was performed immediately.

Daddy Rick and baby

Mama and baby

What a miracle! Baby is just lovely and very healthy with a good healthy appetite. Mama had been battling near pnemonia for the last week and can now be given antibiotics for it. I am so full of gratefulness to the Lord for His mercy and goodness!

Hen Party!

Ok, the "Hen Party" painting is finished and framed! Go here to view. Don't forget to leave a comment. I am interested in what ya'll think!

Soy Bean Harvest

They arrived yesterday afternoon to begin the harvest on our farm



By the second round I had found my camera and was ready.


This was very exciting to me to be able to watch the hugh machinery up close. and it was the first crops grown here since we became the owners. (Previously we had raised Hereford cattle here)

When the combine shells the beans it sure makes alot of dust. The beans go into the combine and it "spits out" everything else back onto the ground.

Turning around .....

Here they go again!

Look at how the dust billows!

A massive width on that combine head!

Massive equipment all together!! It will make short work of our 87 plantable acres!

But in actuality it did take all afternoon, all evening,

.... and went on til after dark. I was so impressed I had to get out my paint last night. You can see that painting here.

Still canning ....

The other evening we went to the Mennonite farm and came home with a bushel of wonderful green beans. They were able to raise them this late in the year because of their drip irrigation system.

I was sure glad to get them as we hadn't been able to can when green beans would have normally been available.

We canned 14 quarts and 16 pints. That added quite a bit to our winter pantry stock.

Besides that, it inspired a new little painting, posted on Sunny's Studio.

Rabbit meat processed

Ok, here it is .... this is what we did over Labor day week-end. Not exciting I know, but given the fact that hubby had to work Sat urday, Sunday afternoon and Monday; and we needed meat in the pantry, it was a good time as we had 10 rabbits we needed to "process".

14 pints tender, boneless rabbit meat, 12 quarts of broth for soup stock, and fried rabbit last night (Tues) for hubby's birthday supper (no way are we going to pay someone else for a lesser meal)

Oh yes, birthday supper included, besides the fried rabbit, baked potatoes, long green beans, and carrot-raisin salad with added pineapple chunks and mini-marshmellows, and one of his favorites, Banana cream pie! Sorry no photos of that, as Dd and Grand arrived and we had such a good time I forgot to take pictures (my bad).

The canned meat can be used for sandwiches, pot-pies, soups, cassaroles, and meat gravy over biscuits; any way chicken can be used. It is very nutritious and very low-fat.

Do any of you "can" meat of any kind?