Fall is here.....already!

I am so excited.  The kids got me a gift certificate at a quilt shop for my birthday.  I went on a weekend when it was 25% off and got the supplies to make two really cute wallhangings.  I would take pictures of the kits but I am too tired to drag out the camera.

I am working a lot lately.  I am now the shoe lead at the local Kohl's store.  I like it.  It's been pretty busy lately and I like to keep busy.  The department hasn't had a lead in a while so there were some fires to put out and I'm just now (six weeks later) getting things under control.  It will take a little bit more to get everything squared away but that's okay.  Keeps me busy.

With the garden wrapping up and homeschooling starting, I haven't quilted at all lately.  I hope to have Courtnee's quilt quilted by the end of October but we will see how it goes I guess.  

Take care and have a wonderful week!

13 months

It has been 13 months since I last posted.  Probably longer since I've done any quilting.  That saddens me deeply.  Quilting is a great creative outlet for me and an opportunity for me to have some "me" time.  It seems as the kids get older I have less time than when they were little.

I'm still homeschooling and that takes up a good chunk of my days.  I was also attending school online full-time since last summer.  And I started working a part time job in December.  I have many things to do here, around the farm also.  There just never seems to be enough time in the day to get everything done.

The garden is planted but we've had five inches of rain since Monday.  I'm successfully growing a bumper crop of weeds.  The flower beds haven't been touched yet (We had a very late winter here and then 6 inches of rain in May that I'm still trying to play catch up from.) I want to redo the flower beds so it may be August before those are done.

We bought 3 more goats (7 total now) and bought 3 pregnant cows.  One has calved and we bought a bottle feed from a neighbor.  We bought 35 laying hens.  My slackers from the past few years, stopped laying well last year and so we have new fresh hens, although it will be September before we have eggs.  We also bought 110 meat birds.  I found a couple that will butcher them very cheaply so we went with it.  Only 55 of the birds are ours, the rest are for 2 friends and Kevin's cousin.  

I have several projects I want to get done this summer.  Many are quilting projects but I really want to organize my genealogy stuff and enter in all the sources that I have.  I also want to get some scrapbooking done as Hallie graduates this next June and I want to have most of it done and not be scrambling.  

I hope to keep up with my blogging more and of course, my quilting.

Have a wonderful day!