Landscaping with alittle sewing...........

 These are a few of the zipper pouches I made awhile ago.

 I have a few more I want to make for Christmas presents.

 Tip your head to the right and you can see the sewing machine on this quilt as you go mug rug!!! I haven't figured out how to rotate a picture here:(

 We finally got the landscaping done around the house. Well not us but the guys from James Valley Nursery in Mitchell.

 We just laid the wheel and big branch there will figure out later something else to do with them.

 I left a small space for planets.

 Sammy the seagull kite...........

 Morning shadow on the newly updated old building:)

 Some before pics I unchecked my pictures and rechecked them from the bottom up and then added them to the blog. So the first is last. kindof of like the sideways pics I'm not going back and doing it all over again............. I have sewing I could be doing instead!!!!!!!!!!

 they took out the sod and made some nice gentle curves so it will be easy to mow around.

 If I was a professional blogger I would have before and after pics together.

 but I'm not...LOL

 Our bushes were half dead so out they go.

 Boy these before are bad..........

 I guess you just get used to the way things are and after awhile you don't even notice how bad it looks.

 These trees started dying last year and this year it was all over for them.

Greg hauled in dirt last fall and now they have it all sloped down and seeded down to grass I just need to keep it watered.
Our next project is to put mulch around the trees in the yard. We bought the mulch now Greg and I have to get it done..............JMF

Mitchell Safe house luncheon................

 Sue was contacted about having a table at the luncheon.All the tables were sponsored by someone, or a business.

 I furnished the quilt for the tablecloth, but the rest was all Sue. Her beautiful depression glass place settings along with her MIL's feed store plates!! Measure tape and button napkin rings:)

 Her featherweight sewing machine and sewing related items.

 It was a salad menu so many yummy salads, muffins and cupcakes.

 I think I counted 30 tables it was fun to see how everyone decorated them. Cute rainbow with a pot of gold under it all made of candy!!

 This one was the smores table each person got a smores kit to take home.

 Lots of different theme, and all so cute.

 This was  a cute one.

 The only other sewing decorated table.

Everyone at that table got a little chicken pin cushion so cute! There was lots of chances to win gift bags full of goodies but not for our table:( All in all it was a good day and I would attend again............. I am making pillowcases for the safe house to be given to kids that come there to stay. I have 3 done and 4 or 5 more to cut out..............JMF

Spring time...............

 This is the oil shed as we call it anyway. I think it will be a perfect building for a barn quilt!! If there is no machinery parked in front of it you can see it from the house. I will post my barn quilt.....I'm sure in the distance future:)

 Plum blossoms.

 They are in a grove of trees we planted when we first moved here.

 On my walk the other day.

 2 of the new bulls this year.

 This little calf is so cute...

The 77 is his mom's number and the 7 means he was born April 7th, the mark on top is some code the guys have like orange yellow or red white. I guess there aren't enough different colors of tags:)........JMF

Indian Princess Quilt..........

 I finished my Indian Princess quilt!  I decided to name my quilts after reading another gal's blog that always names her quilts!! I told Lucas that it is my quilt and that's me and the bear under the quilts is papa. He said that the bear was to little to be papa:)

 The pics are awful I told Greg other quilt bloggers have their husbands hold the quilts up outside in all different locations to get good pictures of them!! I will post the pictures we take..............someday:)

 The calves get a sled ride when they are a day or 2 old to a part of the pasture fenced off from the ones that haven't calved yet.

 open the door.....

 and out they go.

 I tired to get a good picture in the sunset, but with black cows that won't pose it's a problem:)

 We have 2 sleds so if everyone cooperates it's alittle faster.

 The bales in the background have a electric fence around them, that way the calves can go and lay around the bales if they need protection from snow, rain or wind.

 Sue and I went to Madison to the college to give Beef Buck to the students. It didn't take us long to give away several hundred dollars worth of them..
Thanks to the Beef Industry Council and our check off dollars the kids will be eating beef on us:)

We had a survey for them to fill out and all but one ate beef several times a week.. Beef it's whats for dinner!!!.........JMF

The old is new again..................

 I'm not sure how old this building is. It was here when we came on New Years Eve 1977!

 We have painted it several times and like lots of old buildings it just doesn't last long. Over the years we have talked about tearing it down, but just because it was ugly didn't mean it wasn't useful:)

 The call went out and now 3 buildings are on their way to a new and improved look:)

 I didn't realize how bad they looked, you just get used to it.

 Hard at work...hang on!

 Whatch got there???

 my calf

 You can leave now we are just fine....A few days later that area was fenced off. It's wet and rough and dangerous to be out there with a grumpy momma!

 Nice window:) Dang I bet the old one is long gone, I see lots of cute things on pinterst with old windows.

 They cut the upstairs floor out so now a tractor can be put in there.

 It's coming along nicely.

They should be done this week...........JMF