Felix The Cat

Felix was being pretty cute around the farm equipment shed

so I thought I would share some of his precious moments.

Puppies Gotta Play!

March 5, 2008

It was cold this morning - 22 degrees with frost on the bridge.

But it will warm up to the 40's.

Beautiful - Sunny- Clear Skies

Most of the snow is off the river.

The snow is also gone from our bob sled run - the walk to the barn can be pretty yucky in the afternoon as you may guess from the tracks in the frozen morning mud.

Pork chop is begining to "show"!

Tuffy and the Cow have a special bond.

The Rock is uncovered - Girly-Girl seems pretty happy about that!

The farm animals love breakfast time - seems like they are always telling me "More Please!"

While I was at the barn Keith was on a walk with the Pups.

He came back with a "find", a wire cable uncovered from the snow.

More revealed - soon we'll be swinging the Shoes.

Yesterday was sunny as well, so Keith washed all the cars.


He has been busy pruning the fruit trees, changing the oil in the tractor, and other farm chores.

I've been busy in the sewing room and kitchen.

Spring Training is here. It's refreshing to hear baseball on the radio.

All the dogs are doing fine, Cinder is recovering nicely from her surgery, Bandida's bark is persistant, Spaetzle is loving the Sun and Hank is just our Happy-Go-Lucky guy.

A Winter's Supper - Salad, Duck Soup & Potato Bread.

We Are The Ones Song by will.i.am

Another great video - it moved me, I hope it moves you.

Leap Day

I love Leap Day. It makes me feel energentic because I have an extra day. As I told my friend Tara, it's close to the way I feel when I get that "extra" hour when we Fall Back in the Fall, only better because it is 24 "extra" hours!!

News from the Farm and Around Town:

We still have plenty of eggs AND they are not spoiling!

The sun is shining and it's balmy outside.

Cooper's Store sold! A brother & Sister from Wenatchee (I think) bought it and he's going to live in the basement and they are not making any major changes, just going to tinker here and there, starting with the plumbing. Seems the brother is a Handy Man of sorts.

(I went to Cooper's yesterday to post the mail & stopped at the Cafe to drink a glass of ice tea with Grant & MaryAnn....)

I've organized the sewing room. I feel inspired, cozy, & happy when I'm there.

Do not worry though, Tyler, Susie, Lucy & Jasper, it can change into the "Play Room" any ol' time you come visit - lickity-split!

That's all folks, the oven is beeping (apple crisp inside) and the sewing room is a calling me.

Project Two

This project isn't completely finished. They are my "Travel Slippers" . I have invisioned a bag that they will go in when I visit friends. The special part of these slippers is the purple yarn. It was a gift to me from my Sweet Betsy May. I've had the yarn for months, waiting till I had just the right project. It's alpaca and not durable for slippers so I combined it with a soft DK CashSoft gray yarn. The combination feels great on the feet. The pattern is from 101 Designer One-Skein Wonders(so is the yellow jumper). I like the book but I do have to use other books to help me thru the projects because the instuctions do not hold your hand. I love this book for basic instructions, hand knits for the home. Todays chore is organizing the sewing room and hopefully I can make the bag tomorrow.

I've added another sewing link I like. She has free patterns on her site!

Hope you are not bored with my "project" posts, I'm a little nervous about posting them......

A Week of Visits

We had a great week!

It began last Sunday afternoon with the arrival of Arlene- which always means fun games of "Up The Creek", "Scrabble", long walks and good food.

Monday was perfect sledding weather - cold, sunny, and icy snow. The snow sparkled in the sun. I enlisted Arlene to help me find just the right sledding slopes for Lucy and Jasper who were coming later in the week. Why is it that adults need the excuse of children to go out and have fun playing?

Arlene and I had a blast testing the different runs - we bounced acrossed the icy snow fields, frantically sticking out our feet to stop us from crashing into the barbed wire.

Yes, we found safe slopes for the kids, and Yes we were sore the next morning!

April and crew arrived, via Amtrak, Wednesday evening after the lunar eclipse.

Arlene left early Thursday sadly missing out on the sledding fun with Lucy and Jasper!

Some highlights of their visit:

* Jaspers delight every time the coo coo clock chimed

* Lucy and Keith making "Snow Holes"

* Jasper & Lucy happily eating all their supper

* Lucy playing in the "ice rink" (the pool)

* April's Cauliflower soup

* Playing Memory with Lucy and April

* Puppies and kids playing and laughing together

* Wonderful massages from April

* Learning not to sled with eggs in your pocket (that was my lesson)

They left Saturday morning and we are missing them already!