Wednesday, October 1, 2014

The Bird Feeder a must on everyone's bucket list!!!

 I would say it should be about every 5th entry on your bucket list!!! The Birdfeeder 101 Main and Railway Twin Brooks SD Phone 605 432 5534.
 Today my friends, Sue, Laurie, and I went to Twin Brooks SD to eat at the Bird Feeder. It is a small town north and east of Watertown it is close to Milbank too.
 They have gift items through out the cafe.
 Some of it came home with me.
 Beautiful fall decorations.
 But the food oh the food it was to die for!!!!!!!!! If the dog from the cartoon Quick Draw McGraw would have been there he would have been floating for an hour:) You have to be old like me to know what I am talking about....google it:)
 First course was our birdfeeder, soybeans, seeds and lemon coated almond and chocolate covered cranberry. So cute and so good.
 We picked between  carrot soup and a chicken noodle, we all had the carrot. It also had sour cream, pecans and cheese. After the first bite I was floating!!
 Then came the tea, fruity green tea we drank and drank oh so good.....
 Sue and I ordered the chicken salad half on a cranberry flax bread and the other on a honey wheat bread. I have to say I have never had bread that good in my life:)
 The chips are home made and not fried in oil they are a vegetable chip with dip. Yummy. The melon was so fresh and good. The little dishes were so cute. The cucumbers and that little tomato was delish. Laurie had the hot pork sandwich in a bear paw bun with a spicy dipping sauce.
 Now the desserts Lemon meringue  I mean good lemon don't you just hate it when you order lemon pie and its a solid chunk on I don't know what!!! Well this pie is so creamy and the meringue so fluffy and I'm floating and I just had a little taste of it. Laurie even saved some for her dad. It was his birthday. Happy Birthday Laurie's dad:)
 Here is Sue's coconut cream pie I love coconut and this pie was alittle piece of heaven! But if you know me and chocolate was on the list it would be mine!!!
 Just imagine angles singing now..........brownie with a coconut pecan filling, 2 scoops of ice cream, chocolate sauce and caramel sauce!!!!!!!!!! I can still hear the singing:) If you want to take pie with you tell them when you call so they make more! My pictures just don't do the food justice. The plates, garnish, all the special little touches just made it such a great and fun lunch. The owner Carol Kilde started the restaurant in 2004 and every year she features a different bird in the decor this year it's the owl. You can see the little glass with the owl on it in the soup picture that was our gift with 3 homemade caramels in it. Beverly Bohn, Sandy Hansen and Joanne Urban also work there.   I can say you get the royal treatment there. They make the bread and desserts every morning. All the food is homemade I think I already said the but it's worth repeating. All their vegetable and herbs are  fresh  from their backyard and from some local farmers markets. Their meat is from a local butcher shop.
In the July/August SD magazine their is story about the Bird Feed on page 53. That's how we stumbled across them. You need reservations and they book up fast you may have to wait a few days to a week to get in. You will be so happy you made the reservation and trip to the Bird Feeder! I just love that name too:)
On a scale of one to ten of the places I have eaten it is a 10 and beyond. You better hurry and make reservations they open May 15th til Dec. 15th.

 While we were sitting there here came the train by it seemed fitting for some reason.
I want to thank the gals there for allowing me to blog about them and the food:)
You just have to experience it for yourselves. Thanks so much for such a fun and delish lunch....I'll be back, we all will be, and we'll be bringing  friends!!......JMF

Monday, September 29, 2014

Silage and the cows that eat it.............

 While the guys were cutting silage Tooties and I were on cow duty!
 I think we only found one new calf the days we checked.
 The yearlings come up to the fence to say hi ,what's ya doin:)
 Here's where you get out!
 Are you sure?
 bye:(
 Some days my neck feels like this!!!
 We had 3 different guys that cut for us. One opened the fields, one started cutting when the guys that usually do it couldn't come for a couple more days.
 Here's the start of the pile.


 We are still on duty!

 The guys got alot done with Kim's cutter.

 Then Eric's big guns roll in!!!


 3 trucks hauling kept Jared and Greg busy on the pile.
Another silage cutting in the books.........JMF

Friday, September 26, 2014

Plants and trunk show...............

 Greg helped me re pot my aloe and my jade plant the other day. I got the aloe in Texas in Feb of 2007 almost 8 years ago!!!
 It was a 2 man job they are both getting so big, it's to handle them alone.
 I went to the Brookings guild's salad supper and trunk show. Anita Johnson from MN. showed her quilts. Lots of nice ones I just picked my favorites. The plaid one was made from western shirts of her mom's friend.
 She had all colors and types of quilts.

 There she is, she made her jacket and showed a couple others she made.
 We were sitting off to the side and it was hard to get good pictures.

 One of her favorite colors is orange and she had a lot of quilts with orange in them.
 The next ones were from the serenity line of fabric and I really liked all of them.
 So pretty and lots of work.

That's all for now I have some sewing of my own to get done..............JMF

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Bomb winner and so much more!!!

 I love it when someone asks me to make them a quilt!! My SIL John needed a new quilt that's all I needed to hear and I started thinking of what fabric I had that would make a nice man's quilt. The last one I made him was 16 years ago and it was pretty well worn out. That's the way I think it should be I want my quilts to be used, so I can make more!!
 My neighbor Kay quilted it and I love how it turned out.


 I used mostly my stash  and I could make several more! I bought the sashing and found  half of the backing on sale.
 The other half is a plain brown.
 This is an awful picture I will have to take another one someday when I'm at their place.
 We were checking cows the other day and these cranes were hanging out with the cows.



 so were the copperheads.
 Time to get your ear pierced. At least he has a professional piercing  guy I had another girl from high school and a potato behind my ear ouch!!!
 Made this on a whim the other day.
 Love the horse block.
 This is the back.
Oh the winner of the bomb is Cuki from South Africa!! Congrats I have already emailed her so her package will be on it's way soon........................JMF