tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-101203942024-03-06T22:40:54.255-05:00HAPPY ACRESJudyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00647798372172407775noreply@blogger.comBlogger651125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10120394.post-6997064966593525122015-11-24T11:18:00.004-05:002015-11-24T11:18:44.151-05:00Happy Thanksgiving
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<span style="font-family: Dawning of a New Day;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: always forever;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thanksgiving
is fast approaching. The weather had tricked me into thinking we had
more time. </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: always forever;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
news is frightening, the world is spiraling out of control and there
is talk of WW3.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: always forever;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thankfully
the poets have found the words that I am unable to find as my
thoughts are all a jumble.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: always forever;"><span style="font-size: large;">So
this Thanksgiving besides my wonderful family, I am thankful...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: always forever;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>For
each new morning with its light,<br />For rest and shelter of the
night,<br />For health and food,<br />For love and friends,<br />For
everything Thy goodness sends<br />~Ralph Waldo Emerson</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: always forever;"><span style="font-size: large;">And
I wish for all of you to find the peace of the wild things....</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: always forever;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The
Peace of Wild Things ~ Wendell Berry</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: always forever;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>When
despair for the world grows in me </b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: always forever;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>and
I wake in the night at the least sound </b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: always forever;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>in
fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, </b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: always forever;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I
go and lie down where the wood drake </b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: always forever;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>rests
in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. </b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: always forever;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I
come into the peace of wild things </b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: always forever;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>who
do not tax their lives with forethought </b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: always forever;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>of
grief. I come into the presence of still water. </b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: always forever;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>And
I feel above me the day-blind stars </b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: always forever;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>waiting
with their light. For a time </b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: always forever;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I
rest in the grace of the world, and am free.</b></span></span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Judy @ Happy Acres</div>Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05282477360968595561noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10120394.post-59130870810532368542015-10-21T18:47:00.002-04:002015-10-21T18:47:16.593-04:00Apples R Us<i><span style="font-size: large;">"Take the fruit I give you," says the bending tree.<br />
"Nothing but a burden is it all to me.<br />
Lighten ye my branches; let them toss in air! <br />
Only leave me freedom next year’s load to bear." <br />
</span></i><span style="font-size: large;">~Lucy Larcom (1824</span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: large;">–</span></span><span style="font-size: large;">93)</span><br />
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We seriously took this to heart. It was an amazing year for apples. The man got me this load....<br />
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and I made apple butter, applesauce, apple pie filling.<br />
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Then he went back again for another load....and the whole family got to work making cider. The grandsons loved making and drinking it. It has been deemed a new yearly tradition to do with them.<br />
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Then a guy hubby works with gave him 6 bags and a tote full of apples...and I made him some apple cider<br />
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Then same guy came in with 6 more bags....and I made him some apple fruit rolls ups, apple/cherry fruit rolls ups and apple/blueberry fruit roll ups.<br />
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And then same guy came in with a 4 ft long ice chest of apples and 3 more bags...... I am not making him a thing as every time I do he brings more! I asked my husband why he didn't just say no and he said because the guy went through all the trouble of picking them. When the snow comes and I am sure of not getting anymore apples I will make him a basket of apple products as a thank you.<br />
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I must say he has some beautiful apples, they are so red that they are almost black,<br />
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but I am exhausted trying to find things to do with them. I have dumped some on friends but they are sick of them now too. I can't stand to see waste so we will be eating a lot of applesauce and drinking a lot of cider....198 quarts that I canned for apple juice so far.<br />
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The colder temperatures had us lighting the woodstove for the first time Saturday night the 17th. It was our first frost and freeze and officially ended the garden. We had a fire again on the 18th and now we are back to 70's during the day and 40's at night so no more fire until needed. The freeze made a lot of leaves drop but I was able to get pictures of some of their glory.<br />
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I put apples aside and went to Rhinebeck this past Sunday. I had not been there since 2013 and I must say I was disappointed. Vendors I was looking for have folded up shop, a lot less spinning oriented and more yarn. I was use to seeing shelves with roving balls, tub after tub of roving, booths with several wheels to test drive, loads of carders/skeinwinder or bags upon bags of fleece. Outside the building with the fleece competiton/sale there were only a few that had a fleece or two for sale. <br />
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I did not walk away empty handed....I procured 12 oz of cormo pencil roving, some rootbeer float fudge (for #2 daughter), clover honey, small container of feta pesto, and a pair of alpaca socks for the man.<br />
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The weekend before we had the grandsons for a sleepover while their parents celebrated their 5th wedding anniversary. It went very well. They painted two pumpkins each and took them home. Toddler B is very diligent and attacked his pumpkins with such focus and complete coverage. Toddler O is very tidy and didn't like it when he got paint on his hands when turning the pumpkin. They helped with the morning chores and ate like horses. It has been along time without little kids underfoot so we were exhausted when they left!<br />
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And time before that I was trying to get pictures of the eclipse. I was able to get some regardless of the clouds until almost full eclipse and then it was total cloud coverage.<br />
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So we are about ready for the snowy weather. The sheep are sheared and there is hay in the barn. The turkeys took a short ride. #2 son said they would weigh in at 25 and 18...they ate well and weighed a shocking 37 and 24! <br />
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The only thing that has to be done still is butchering the pigs and the longer the weather is above normal the longer they will be with us. This year also saw a bounty of acorns and they are eating their fill. They have an acorn fairy that leaves feed bags of acorns by the milkhouse for them. <br />
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I have been knitting very little but I expect that to pick up once the apples are done. So until I have something fibery to show I will leave you with this little anomaly....<br />
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a road in PA without potholes....or political advertisements!<br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang=""> </span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Judy @ Happy Acres</div>Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05282477360968595561noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10120394.post-31375762093882068102015-09-17T20:34:00.000-04:002015-09-17T20:34:43.896-04:00OMG A year has gone by!!!!!<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"> </a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Segoe Print;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The
mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better
thinking. ~ Phaedrus</b></span></span><br />
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find it funny that I should return to this blog almost a year to the
day. Diversion didn't produce any better thinking but I guess it is
true that I do love this time of year. Summer keeps me tied to the
garden or the stove canning but when September rolls around I know
the end is in sight. I have only to do apples </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Segoe Print;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>and sauerkraut and
then I get a much needed rest.</b></span></span></div>
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last year the temperatures are above normal. The mornings however
are wonderful. A cool fog shrouds the mountains.</b></span></span><br />
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visitors were resting in a tree above the chicken coop. </b></span></span></div>
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like his picture taken so flew to a fence post, </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Segoe Print;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>when that didn't stop
me he finally flew to a tree on the mountain. While the pigs were
too busy doing their pig thing to notice, </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Segoe Print;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>the coop residents would
not have liked the visit.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Segoe Print;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Not
much has changed since a year ago. I am still working on the
genealogy. I missed a family reunion because the car's (7 more
payments but no more warranty) engine died. I also missed the
Endless Sheep and Wool again but will be at Rhinebeck.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Segoe Print;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I
did get a great deal on a 30 x 100 foot greenhouse frame. While too
much space for my growing purposes, we intend to put part by the garden and
the rest will be used for housing animals and storage for tractor and
implements.</b></span></span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Segoe Print;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>#1
daughter and Sir T are house hunting. They found a great house but
the owners will not work with them, to the point that even the
homeowners realtor thinks her clients are unreasonable. So the hunt goes
on. The grandkids are getting so big. O starts kindergarten next
September which seems impossible. B will be lost without him.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Segoe Print;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>#1
son had a horrible snowmobile accident this past winter while riding
with A.....seven broken ribs, three were broken multiple times,
broken sternum, broken collar bone, two punctured lungs one
collapsed, and a concussion. He subsequently sold his snowmobile but
when Spring came they bought the fastest side by side quad to ride.
He turned 30 this Spring so healing wont be as fast something he should keep in mind.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Segoe Print;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>#2
son had long wanted to join the marines. Unfortunately he is PDQ
because of his hearing. He was always getting ear infections as a kid and had ruptured his ear drum multiple times because of them. He tried for a waiver since he is only off
by one frequency but the Marines are not offering waivers at this
time. So he started working at the same place #1 son and husband
work and will celebrate his one year anniversary there in a couple
of weeks.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Segoe Print;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>#2
daughter is working as a CNA at an area nursing home. She loves it
but being the mom I worry about her driving as she works 3-11 pm and
during the winter they don't always work on the roads at night. In a
little over a month she turns 21. How time flies.</b></span></span></div>
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with all gardening years, something's grow and something's don't. It
was a great year for peas and summer squash but tomatoes were
indecisive. They are loaded with buds now that it is time to pull
them! A new thing this year is cotton!!!!! </b></span></span></div>
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and they had gorgeous flowers and then the boles started. I can't
wait to harvest and plant more next year.</b></span></span></div>
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the farm is pretty much the same. We got three pigs to raise again
this year. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Segoe Print;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>A
friend got chickens and ducks but his landlord nixed the ducks so he
gave them to us.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Segoe Print;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I
am in the sporadic funk with knitting but I have been spinning a lot.
I washed a fleece today so as the weather gets cooler I will have
plenty to card/dye/spin. </b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Segoe Print;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>And
that about wraps up the year! Pretty boring to put on paper but in
real time it has had some pretty good moments.</b></span></span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">Judy @ Happy Acres</div>Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05282477360968595561noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10120394.post-45248659501338942692014-09-16T13:03:00.000-04:002014-09-16T16:18:28.990-04:00A chill in the air<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</span>The weather has definitely cooled down (like 10 degrees below normal) and the a/c units are out of the
windows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Along with Spring this is my
favorite time of the year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC"; font-size: 14.0pt;">A
walk along the barn road shows dead leaves starting to accumulate along its
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notice the trees have lost their vibrant green.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They now wear coats of army green and drab olive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soon they will be vibrant again in hues of
red, orange and yellow. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wildflowers
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<span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC"; font-size: 14.0pt;">are making walking across the yard without turning your ankle an
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<span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Autumn
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regular visitor as he tries to put on his winter weight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The puppy doesn’t like
him!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He growls with his hackles up while
walking from door to door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Something
took down one of the fawns in the field.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It took ½ one night and ½ the next.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We believe it is the coyotes which are getting to be nightly visitors on
the mountain behind us….another thing the puppy doesn’t like!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A small buck was in the yard yesterday, the
velvet is off his antlers and his neck looked like it had already started to
swell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And at the man’s worksite there
were deep marks of hooves being shoved in the dirt where two bucks had been
fighting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I
have spent the last month canning, knitting and working on the genealogy. A
friend knew my tomatoes were not producing what I needed and picked me up 125#
from a farm near where he works.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was
kept busy enough that I missed the Endless Mt Fiber Fest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I
did however enter into their completion and I won on both entries!!!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://riverrim.blogspot.com/">Cyndi from Riverrim</a> was nice enough to take
them up for me as she vends there with Grace Hatton.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This year’s project was a cowl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I entered a crocheted version </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC"; font-size: 14.0pt;">(<a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/main-street-cowl">Main Street byKrista Wolf</a>) which won first place and a knit version </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC"; font-size: 14.0pt;">(<a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/beaded-smoke-ring">Beaded smoke Ring</a> by
Jackie Erickson-Schweitzer with a few changes due to time restrictions) which
won third place!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know it’s not like
entering into a huge competition such as MD Sheep & Wool or Rhinebeck but its
fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC"; font-size: 14.0pt;">But
back to the gardening/canning….With the addition of the 125# of tomatoes, my <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>shelves are now stocked with all the BBQ
sauce, chili sauce, salsa, bruschetta in a jar, rotel tomatoes, crushed
tomatoes, tomato sauce and V8 that I need to get through the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The green beans which were late to start are
still producing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I slowed down picking
so I can save seed for next year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
summer squash were nothing to write about but the winter squash are doing
fantastic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I planted two spaghetti and one
LI Cheese in the regular garden and I must have 10 spaghetti squash still out
there and three cheese.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Up by the barn
in a manure pile I also planted one LI cheese, 1 striped cushaw and some saved
seed from a sugar pie pumpkin I got from Walmart last year. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I intended to keep moving the fence but the
vines soon grew through the roll so I couldn’t move it without breaking the
vines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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cushaw and some sugar pie’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
chickens have discovered the sugar pie and are pecking at them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had to wrap the others that are growing
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<span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC"; font-size: 14.0pt;">We
went blueberry picking in August at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HerrickHillHuckleberryFarm">Herrick Hill Huckleberry Farm</a> and it was awesome.
Toddler O kept eating and every time we asked him how many berries he picked
and put in his bucket the answer was three.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>His brother Baby B went from person to person, stomped his foot,
grunted, put his hand out and waited for it to be filled. We brought home 30 pounds.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I froze some, and then canned blueberry/lime
jam, blueberry syrup and blueberry pie filling. This past weekend we went apple
picking at<a href="http://robafamilyfarms.com/"> Roba’s</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can quickly fill
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for the adults or the grandkids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Closer
to Halloween we will go back pumpkin picking and after looking at their cut
your own Christmas trees we might have to get our tree there this year. And did
you know there are less than 100 days until Christmas? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC"; font-size: 14.0pt;">And
in genealogy…I got back into it after being contacted by a relative on my father’s
side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This past week I contacted someone
about my grandmother’s sister (or daughter as has always been assumed) on my mom’s
side and it ended up being her granddaughter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now maybe we can make some head way on our great grandparents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand
fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic
threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";"> ~ Herman Melville</span><br /><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";"></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">On Wednesday, childhood friends of mine, a brother and sister, lost a
very small but important person in their lives; his first grandchild and her
great niece. This baby had been so highly anticipated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their whole family looked up on this little
girl as a happy new beginning as they had been devastated by the loss of his
wife a couple of years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They knew
there might be problems but hope reigned eternal but it was not to be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She lived 17 short hours but the joy she brought
during that time was insurmountable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">Even though
my daughter keeps busting on me I hadn’t been posting anymore as it all seemed
pointless, writing about the same things year after year as I live a very
mundane, by most standards, life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
don’t believe I know enough to tell people how to do things, I am not trying to
sell things and the blog an extension of that; <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it was just my ramblings, an online journal of
sorts, and until Ravelry a central place to post pictures of projects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But today I was thinking of the baby and <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I remember reading the book <b>The Five
People You Meet in Heaven </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">where
Eddie learns </span></span>that there are no random events in life and all
individuals and experiences are connected in some way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This baby came into the world for 17 short
hours, impacted people’s lives and although she may be gone, her story is not
yet finished.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the premise is true
that we do just randomly touch another life, that we say or do something that
unbeknownst to us effects others than I guess I can continue to throw words on
paper (or screen).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe when I get to
heaven (fingers crossed)I might find out somebody found something in those
words.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">So a quick
round up of life from April when the trees were starting to leaf out until today’s
walk to the barn where I was walking upon fallen leaves every other step….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">Toddler O
turned 3 and is amazing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have heard it
said that they get that from their grandmother and who am I to argue!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh and I am not one bit prejudice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">We hatched
out our own chickens for the first time…what fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The second hatch was tampered with and the
temperature got up too high so we will try again next spring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also got three pigs to raise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was hard finding them and costly when we
did but with the prices rising we were told we will come out ahead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Time will tell I guess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We plan to butcher in late September or
October.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And after losing four turkeys
to a raccoon we finally found four more so Thanksgiving dinner is still on!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">#2 daughter
graduated and is now a licensed CNA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
was offered a job but it was taking care of 36 people, alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A daunting task for even a more mature
experienced individual and so she turned it down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yesterday she got a call from the place she
did her residency at with a job offer so fingers crossed all works out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her training did come in handy when she was
walking by the neighbors and he had caught himself on fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was able to get the flames out, call 911
and help his wife take care of him until the ambulance got there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Our efforts, feeding the deer this past winter paid off with some awesome little fawns. I have seen two sets of twins and #2 daughter saw a set of triplets. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">#2 son
graduated from high school and has been going to Marine PT every Wednesday
night to lose weight so he can officially join the Marines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If all goes as planned he leaves in March.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This means that come September when school
starts I will not have any children in school for the first time in 27
years!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No more backpacks, notebooks,
pens and pencils and no more packing lunch each and every day!!!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Part of me is happy and part of me sad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But in two more years Toddler O starts school
so I can take him school shopping.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">#1 daughter
and Sir T moved closer!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He accepted a
job and they now live 40 minutes away! Although he took a cut in his gross pay moving
from Philly he actually brings home more because of less taxes and the company
pays his insurance!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are renting for
now while they scout the area for a house to buy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is wonderful having them so close.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have family (all my children together!!!)
dinner every Sunday and I am usually up their way once a week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We even got to take the grandkids to their first
county fair and Toddler O loves rollercoaster’s!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Baby B was too small for most rides but did
get a go on the little race cars and was ear to ear grinning the whole
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also indulged in some chocolate
covered bacon, peanut butter covered bacon, fries and cheese and a blooming
onion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have to say those kids love to
eat and will try anything.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">I turned the
big 50 and the kids threw me a surprise party.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Rotten children…actually it was nice, I didn’t have to do any of the
cooking/baking or the cleanup!!! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then
the next day I was told we were going berry picking and we ended up at a dog
shelter where I acquired a new puppy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They thought it was time and I had been
looking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is a mutt that was returned supposedly
because the man lost his job …or could it be puppy has some bad habits… but he loves
kids (good for the grandkids).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is
four months old so we can work with him on his bad habits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mom was a boxer/beagle and dad was a
lab/hound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His name was Buddy but a
neighbor has a dog with the same name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While they don’t live close if they call their dog I can hear it and I
didn’t want him to run across a road to them by mistake or vise versa so his
new name is Huckleberry since that is what we were supposed to be picking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">The man
bought himself a tractor!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has been
wanting to buy one but I didn’t want the debt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So I asked him if he would rather a newer truck or the tractor thinking
he would say the truck but he didn’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then
he got a raise at work and it covers the cost so he has a brand new Kioti and
his to do list just got longer! And every time I think of the tractor the song "She thinks my tractor's sexy" runs through my mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">Ancestry sent
me an email with a great offer so I am back to working on my genealogy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is something my mother and I started but
most information was lost on an old computer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is a huge time suck but I figure I will work on it and if any of the
kids are interested later on, it will be there for them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">My garden is
abysmal this year...well maybe that is a little harsh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had lots of Nanking cherries after I
covered them from the birds, the peppers are doing good, the beans are just
coming in, the winter squash/pumpkins look like they will be awesome, the
cabbages look like they will need to be shredded for kraut soon so they don’t
split from the recent rain, the potatoes are going strong but the tomatoes were
awful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tomatoes are a huge staple for
us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are our spaghetti and BBQ sauce,
soup, V8, salsa, stewed tomatoes, etc etc etc so their loss is a huge hit to my
canning totals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">In the fiber
arena not much is happening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did get
my wool back from a local processor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
love the way the roving comes back and it is a dream to spin but she leaves a
little too much lanolin in for my taste.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And although it was costly I did get some spun into worsted and dk
weight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is nice to be able to knit
and not spin my own wool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">Work
continues on the house and yard, an endless process as I change flower gardens
around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had some lumbering done on
our property so all the tree tops are lying in the woods to be pulled out (with
the tractor) cut up and stacked for firewood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Thankfully we will have enough for us for a couple of years and be able
to sell some to a friend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Whether the weather
be fine<br />
Or whether the weather be not<br />
Whether the weather be cold<br />
Or whether the weather be hot<br />
We'll weather the weather<br />
Whatever the weather<br />
Whether we like it or not</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">I remember hearing that tongue
twister on a Little Bear episode and it has been running through my head all
morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is very appropriate as the
weather saga continues but we did get some respite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">On Saturday, April 5<sup>th</sup>
we celebrated Grandson B’s first birthday by going to an indoor water park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was 39 and windy outside but 82 degrees
inside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The kids, old and young, loved
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">Wave pools, tube and raft slides that
sent you outside the building while it dropped you four floors, </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">picture from Split Rock's website</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">flow rider
surfing, hot tubs, a separate area just for the little guys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was awesome and definitely buoyed our
spirits knowing the temperatures would soon be that warm outside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">And they did warm up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was working outside in the garden and
greenhouse or since I am redoing door I was taking them outside to sand and
stain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tomatoes need to be transplanted
soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">This past weekend we made a
trip south to the grandkids to build them a swing set.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only 2 ½ hours from home yet much warmer than
us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their daffodils were blooming, the
grass was close to needing to be cut, the forsythia just starting to
bloom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We came home sunburned and
eagerly awaiting the grass to turn green and the first blossoms up here and
yesterday I saw one of my daffodils was blooming!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">This weekend was also when
trout season opened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have all been
out several times but we didn’t catch anything but did carry home some of
Spring and Summers nemesis, ticks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">Several nights I left the
plants in the unheated greenhouse and we even slept with the windows open…and
today we wake to two inches of snow so it’s inside work today like knitting…
not like that is work!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have been
ignoring the fiber side and only made two dishcloths recently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have another reason for that….egg
watching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We hatched our first egg on
Sunday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now we have ten baby
chicks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I originally put in 20 eggs so
our success rate was low but it was a test run.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was all the dark brown eggs that didn’t hatch so will take that into
consideration when picking out eggs next time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And next time will be May.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/129/95B39165C9200785C3BFF9F327997C79.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0px none ! important;" /></a><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Judy @ Happy Acres</div>Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05282477360968595561noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10120394.post-80592859966262262962014-04-04T20:21:00.001-04:002014-04-04T20:21:27.822-04:00Finally April<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Monday some places in NEPA got 10 inches of snow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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hour school delay. Tuesday I was outside and heard a noise....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;">some visitors had returned to my pond!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Our
lives are in battle too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The man is
splitting firewood but Spring cleaning the barn also.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the house sometimes I am knitting mittens
and other times I am transplanting seedlings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sunday
it is suppose to be 60 degrees, the warmest Sunday in 24 weeks says the
weatherman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a lot of clean up and
fence repair in the garden so I am looking forward to that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But first we will be celebrating #2 grandson,
Baby B's, first birthday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why does it seem
winter crawled by but this year flew by?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Now
I must go catch up on Game of Thrones so I will be ready for this season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have a great weekend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">#1
daughter, Sir T and the grandsons came up last weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We (as in I am trying to convince them) are discussing Toddler O coming up and
staying for a week in June…and a week in July and August , if all goes well and
those darn parental units don’t miss him!</span></div>
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toward shearing I bundled up what I had here and took it too a LOCAL!!!!! mill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am having some made into worsted weight
yarn, some into fingering and the rest into bumps of roving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want to see how it all comes out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has been working on a lot of alpaca and
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</span>It should be ready by the beginning of May.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope it all comes out nice as it is easier
driving a short distance than packing it all up and finding boxes, loading it into the car (when I get to borrow it from my children) and shipping
it out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes I have a drum carder but
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">#2
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their food intake and any sores etc. and she scored a 96!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She went back Friday on her own to visit some
of the residents that she worked on and found out that two had died since she
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And that about sums it all up. Looking forward to warmer weather and mud season but fully understanding where I live there might be some more snow before Old Man Winter gives up. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">"You
think I am dead,"<br />
The apple tree said,<br />
"Because I have never a leaf to show -<br />
Because I stoop,<br />
And my branches droop,<br />
And the dull gray mosses over me grow!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">"But
I'm still alive in trunk and shoot;<br />
The buds of next May<br />
I fold away -<br />
But I pity the withered grass at my root."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">"You
think I am dead,"<br />
The quick grass said,<br />
"Because I have parted with stem and blade!<br />
But under the ground,<br />
I am safe and sound<br />
With the snow's thick blanket over me laid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">"I'm
all alive, and ready to shoot,<br />
Should the spring of the year<br />
Come dancing here -<br />
But I pity the flower without branch or root."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">"You
think I am dead,"<br />
A soft voice said,<br />
"Because not a branch or root I own.<br />
I never have died, but close I hide<br />
In a plumy seed that the wind has sown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">"Patient
I wait through the long winter hours;<br />
You will see me again -<br />
I shall laugh at you then,<br />
Out of the eyes of a hundred flowers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">Edith
Matilda Thomas (1854 - 1925)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
name of the poem is Talking in Their Sleep and like the apple tree, grass and
flower I am waiting patiently through the winter hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> The deer aren't as patient as they are having a hard time of it. I finally caved and started putting some feed out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Everything
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">suspended in time. The snow cover is the same,
the temperatures are the same, the future forecast is the same. That being said, I am preparing for more cold
weather yet also preparing for the inevitable thaw and return to gardening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
I am knitting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I finished the baby
blanket. #2 daughter had it all packed in a laundry basket of goodies and wouldn't let me take it out. You can't see it in this picture but it is crib size and the way it is crocheted the blue is more dominant on one side and brown more on the other. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> I even had time to knit a pair of baby socks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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to knit myself another pair of mittens as I left the last pair in Philly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I hope #1 daughter gets some use out of
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I saw a pair of bed socks in Knitting Vintage Socks and liked
the design so I knit them up and I am sending them down to #1 daughter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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for myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I saw a pin on Pinterest how
to make stripes in ribbing without the bumps of the other color showing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I had to put stripes in this pair of socks
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why did I not know this before now?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
did clean up the greenhouse in preparation of the upcoming season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I bought some peat pellet trays to start
seeds and they are soaking/expanding now, later today they will be filled with
tomato and pepper seeds...maybe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
canning season has started.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While
combining freezers I took out two small turkeys and cooked them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I then made turkey stock and canned it…11
quarts and 3 pints.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are several
bags of rhubarb which might get turned into pie filling before the weekend is
over.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So
I guess things are moving along even if it is like molasses going uphill in
February!</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/129/95B39165C9200785C3BFF9F327997C79.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0px none ! important;" /></a><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Judy @ Happy Acres</div>Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05282477360968595561noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10120394.post-27484326689505397372014-02-19T15:19:00.002-05:002014-02-19T18:31:20.609-05:00Winters Bite<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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use them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like a vampire he sunk his teeth in and is sucking the life out of people. </span></div>
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bite of our area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His cold fingers
slipped down toward us in December and he just tightened his grip this
month.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most people are wondering if he
will ever let go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I see it all around and hear it on the news. </span>The above average snow
fall and below average temperatures are making people have less jingles in
their pockets, more aches in their bodies and just mentally exhausted. Mrs Cardinale might not mind it </span></div>
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get to knittin’ mom!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then I got to
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temps I might just do something crazy and put in my chick order and get to putting
some seeds in dirt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Oh yeah living on the wild side! Three foot of snow coverage has to melt eventually.</span></span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Judy @ Happy Acres</div>Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05282477360968595561noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10120394.post-57553778000027297662014-02-13T19:35:00.001-05:002014-02-13T19:35:31.533-05:00Poor Robin Redbreast<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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We haven't seen above freezing temperatures in a while. Mr Robin arrived far too early not that the south is much warmer this year. I don't mind the snow but the layer of ice makes it hard for the deer to walk through and dig through for food. Now todays storm
will just exasperate the problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Yesterday
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together but I just got rid of partial skeins by making this for a friends birthday. She
had been blatantly hinting for something to toss over the back of her sofa so it<br />
uses her colors and came out about 46 x 68. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> I only got a quick picture of it folded in half, after quickly finishing it as she was on her way over.</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> I have lots more yarn to get rid of and that only took 5 days. </span>
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So the weather isn’t discouraging my fiber pursuits but I do worry more
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kept busy trying to figure out how to get to the point that we are producing
our own hay for our animals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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used <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by the chickens this year is ours that we cut
and then raked by hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fields are
slowly coming back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hopefully this year we can
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long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to
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mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">January
is in the rear view and it passed at an amazingly quick pace too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The endless temperatures below freezing tend
to make the time pass slow but I have had some diversion from its ice grasp.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> an <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/om-nom-hat">Om Nom hat </a>and a <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/knitted-polar-bear-hat">polar bear hat, </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and bear cowl...more like a wimple ...a pattern which I made up from looking at a picture of one #1 daughter sent me </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Upon
returning home I have not had a project grab me so I have been knitting
dishcloths from <a href="http://blog.knitpicks.com/wpblog/category/52-weeks-of-dishcloths/">KnitPicks 52 weeks of dishcloths</a> and the white one is <a href="http://www.maggiesrags.com/freedishcloth.htm">Chinese Waves dishcloth</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><a href="http://www.maggiesrags.com/freedishcloth.htm"> </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I have also signed on for a KAL and CAL on
Holiday Mystery Gifts yahoo group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
KAL is a pair of socks and the CAL is a spiral granny afghan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both of these start today and should keep me busy for a while along with the afghan using up some leftover yarn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
have gone through my seeds and found I don’t need to put in a seed order.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I might pick up fillers later from my local
feed store but if the rodents don’t dig up my seeds after I plant them I will be fine. Now to just plan where I want everything to go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
have been baking bread like a mad woman. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grilled cheese with homemade bread and soup is
an awesome dinner to chase away the chill. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I treated myself to a
2 pound Pullman bread pan with cover.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
have a loaf rising in it now and can’t wait to see how it turns out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But
I am even more excited about a recent discovery…earlier today the man said “check
out that bird” and I got my camera and zoomed in and saw…..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
have never seen a robin this early in the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I don’t have cabin fever yet but I will be very happy if Spring arrives
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"There
are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any<br />
winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the seed
catalogues."<br />
- Hal Borland<br />
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I have not succumbed to the lore of the seed catalogue but the January thaw has
come. Living in a river valley means you're aware of seasonal ebbs and
flows .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our town is situated at
the junction of two rivers -one many use for fishing and the other for rafting,
so river levels are the start of many conversations. An ice jam release
on one can trigger the release on the other. Right now the river on which
we own property is pretty much clear. The water is running high but all
within its boundaries. The other river is more prone to ice jams but they
all went out without incident.</span></div>
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on done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I eventually lost the screw and
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</span>They sent me two free of charge and I am finally able to spin again.
The problem was the gear was re-installed backwards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It feels good to be able to spin problem free
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I finished spinning two
balls and have since plied them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knit an om nom hat and polar bear hat.
Then I took some handspun yarn and started working on a pair of slippers for #2 daughter. The roving that this yarn started from
was horrible. I stopped working with it twice because of all the second
cuts. Finally I just spun it to be whatever it would be...a slubby yarn, but it is soft and is worked out fine for her slippers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">While
reading <a href="http://fiberfunandme.blogspot.com/">Sandi’s blog</a> she
mentioned having a problem with hats not staying on her head and wrote about
making a bonnet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Following her
instructions I made myself one as I suffer from the same hat ailment!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
have been baking bread and reading my way through the five Song of Ice and Fire
series or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/George-Martins-Thrones-5-Book-Boxed/dp/0345535529/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1390013732&sr=8-3&keywords=game+of+thrones+games">Game
of Thrones</a> as it is better known.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
have a long wait for the next book as it is not due out until 2015.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I got an external hard drive for Christmas so
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they are relevant and worth the transferring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But
now everything is getting put on hold while I go take care of the grandsons for
a week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trying to think of something to
work on while they are sleeping (hahahaha) when #2 daughter asks me to make a
baby afghan for her friends shower in February….So much for my mental and
physical hiatus!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Pictures of finished projects when I return </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Year
by year the complexities of this spinning world grow more bewildering and so
each year we need all the more to seek peace and comfort in the joyful
simplicities.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Women’s Home Companion<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>December, 1915</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Oh
a new year, new beginnings, new hopes and aspirations…why does it come at that
time of year when I just want to burrow in with a warm afghan, a book, a
mindless pattern, old movie or tv series.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yesterday it was the Waltons and McLintock while sitting by the
woodstove knitting…the simple life.</span></div>
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the spring and summer of gardening and then harvesting/canning I move into
holiday mode of making presents/baking/cleaning for company etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I need this little bit of down time to just vege. Consider it my two week vacation, inside where it is warm.</span></div>
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a short time of doing nothing but keeping the house and laundry cleaned and
inhabitants fed I will emerge ready to face this <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>new year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
will look through the canned/frozen goods and choose what seeds I want to plant
this year and where I will put them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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will look at what the year has planned (so far just #2 son’s graduation) and
decide if we should raise our own pigs again this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could use a few more layers and will have
to decide if I want meat birds too before I place my order.</span></div>
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would like an orchard up by the barn and have even thought of a couple of trees for Christmas's year down the road.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I would like to move extra raspberry and blackberry canes up there along
with elderberry but have to think of fencing to keep the deer out.</span></div>
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will look through the patterns that peaked my interest and decide if they are
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know I need new dish cloths and socks so they will go on the to do list.</span></div>
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have lots of roving but I also have 6 fleece that I might send out to be spun
for me as I will have 6 more come April.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Decision,
decisions, decisions….only time and finances will tell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right now I have at least one more week of
mental/physical hiatus. Till then some randomness.... <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Grandson stocking</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Work with me...it looks like a heart right?</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Summer resident only!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grandson O in bubble heaven</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I hope everyone one had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Boy a nap sounds wonderful right now.....</span></div>
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and a time to every purpose under the heaven:<br />
a time to be born, and a time to die;<br />
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;<br />
a time to kill, and a time to heal;<br />
a time to break down, and a time to build up;<br />
a time to weep, and a time to laugh;<br />
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;<br />
a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;<br />
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;<br />
a time to get, and a time to lose;<br />
a time to keep, and a time to cast away;<br />
a time to rend, and a time to sew;<br />
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;<br />
a time to love, and a time to hate;<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;">King
Solomon might have said it but nobody lives by it anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I get seed catalogs before Christmas, two
weeks after school is out they are filling the racks with back to school
merchandise, before the end of December Valentines candy will flood the aisles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This year before Thanksgiving I received the
January/February issue of a magazine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Homemade
gifts need to be started early and I totally get not waiting until the last
minute to shop but we don’t get to enjoy each holiday or season before we are
rushed into the next.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know I have to
prepare for the future (holiday/season) but last I knew they all fell at
approximately the same date/time without fail so why do I need to have Santa eyeballing
me while choosing <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>little Johnny’s school
uniform in August?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>OK done with rant…I
guess I must be getting old because I am so out of sync with this fast paced
world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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from the above you know I did not go shopping on black Friday but I did do some
browsing and shopping at the Christkindlmarkt in Bethlehem when I went to visit
the grandsons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The site is beside the
smokestacks of Bethlehem steel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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wanted to see how much they were….suffice it to say more than I would spend on
myself before Christmas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The booth was
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;">incense burners and ornaments of all makes
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Royal Guard giving you free tastes of waistline busters! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Delicious!! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can even get your picture taken with the
Queen or Will and Kate (life size cardboard cutouts).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is vendors of wine, pottery, </span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;">and
beautiful puzzle boxes by <a href="http://www.puzzleboxguy.com/wesell.html">Turtle
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venture out into the cold to get to tent number two which houses all the artisans,
food court and stage where school groups and various musicians entertain
you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was by far the favorite tent
as I love to see unique items people create.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Vendors can sign on for a week
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<em><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Dogs are
not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.</span></em><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">—<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Caras">Roger Caras</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
have had dogs my whole life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of the dogs
my family had were working dogs and stayed outside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
man and I had two dogs, one we rescued as a two year old and one the man had
when we met.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both of these dogs were
outside dogs during the day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">On
Mother’s Day 2008, we went to Farmer Dave’s to pick up some feeder pigs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He just happened to have puppies for sale
also.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>#2 son and daughter begged for a
puppy and when I said no they said it could be a mothers day gift for me…like I
needed more work to do!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were living
in a 12 travel trailer at the time while finishing the house. I put my foot
down and said no...until I looked and fell head over heels for a little red
ball of fur with huge paws and long ears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He would try walking, step on his ears and fall over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was it, he was mine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a red bone coon dog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Irresistible puppy</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Then
he proceeded to cry the whole ride home making me rethink my decision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While living in the travel trailer we would put
the other dogs in a shed at night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
new puppy, Cooper, however was too tiny for that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course the square footage of the trailer
with four people left little room for him so someone would lift him up on the
bed so he didn’t get stepped on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Because
he was raised with a cat he could never become a hunting dog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cats and coons have similar scents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This fit him just fine as he was more a dog
of leisure than work...he didn’t even like getting his paws dirty!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The valley however did hear plenty of his
howls while playing outside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The outside
play had to be during the day since he didn’t like the dark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The man once went out in the dark to scare #2
daughter who was walking up from my mom’s with Cooper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The man jumped out, #2 screamed and Cooper
went running toward the house and his mommy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Seven
months after his arrival we moved into the house and all the dogs moved in
also.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The older two had been trained
never to go on the furniture but Cooper knew no such restraints.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His two favorite spots were on the bed by my
feet or if you sat on the sofa the front half of him was in your lap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As he grew slightly large (159 lbs) this
could get painful. Then we got a new sofa he wasn’t allowed on so he would push
a 2 ½ foot cushioned hassock across the room and lay on top of it in front of
the wood stove.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lying on the floor was
for dogs and he did not consider himself to be one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This
is because #1 daughter (she is a cat person) use to tell him that he was so
ugly his mother gave him away on Mother’s Day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This broke my heart so I would whisper in his ear that he was a big sexy
man dog!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it went to his head!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was my constant companion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I was sitting and he wanted my attention
he would walk up and just lay his head on my boobs and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>just stare at me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you stayed up late he would whine until
you came to bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the man came home
from work and went to hug me, Cooper would bark until we broke apart and knelt
down to include him in the hug.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">He
was a character.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you picked up his
big ears and rubbed underneath he purred like a cat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cooper and I use to serenade the man all the
time much to the man’s dismay!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we
left home Cooper would sleep on the bed until he heard the car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then you could hear him whine/bark and run toward
the door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fifteen people could walk in
before me and he would ignore them all and wait for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No matter how close the man and I slept if
Cooper wanted attention during the night he would step on us then lay down
between us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then he would roll a little
to spoon with me and “fork” (push with his paws) the man which made me giggle
each time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The man got even by teaching
him to walk between your legs from behind to get his chest scratched ….I am
short <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and he about threw me a couple of
times. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>He would eat the Nanking cherries
and thornless blackberries off the plants but would bark and wait for me to
pick him the red raspberries!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both front
and kitchen gated porches had the screen doors fixed so they didn’t fully latch
so he could enter and exit at his convenience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Over
the years we lost the other dogs, first Shadow (age 20) and then last October
Digger (age 14) died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hindsight
being 20/20 I should have noticed that Cooper didn’t come outside with me as
often this summer, that he tended to just stay curled up on the bottom of the bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought it was the heat. I would walk down
the hall and pet/scratch him and then go on about my day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I had a migraine and laid down he would
come curl up beside me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But other than
that I was busy… the garden, the canning, driving the kids….until he didn’t eat
his breakfast one Saturday morning and then peed on the floor, something he had
never done even as a puppy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The vet was
closing but called in a prescription and an appointment was made for
Monday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Coopers
urine sample stated he had a UTI and the meds continued for 10 days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During those days and a little after he got
better, played more and ate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then he
started to go downhill again, lethargic and not eating so back to the vet we
went.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A blood test was done and he was in
kidney failure from lyme disease, the toxin levels were so high they were off
the charts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The man had taken him in and
opted to give it the one shot we had which was to give IV’s. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Waiting on the man to come home</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For over a week we would sit with Cooper 6
hours a day while we administered the IV drip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Once he chewed the port out and another trip to the vet was made to put
in a new one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The next visit showed his
toxin levels going down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The drip was
stopped with the hope that his kidneys would kick in and do their job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If they didn’t then too much damage had
already been done. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We brought him home
so hopeful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several days passed and he
was acting better but still picky about his food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then he started full speed downhill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So on Thursday we held him as the vet put him
to sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We brought him home and buried
him with his toys in the back yard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even
the neighbors missed him and brought him bouquets of flowers for his grave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
house feels so empty without his big butt blocking the hall way or keeping my
feet warm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel his loss more than I
did the other dogs because he was all mine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He had no other owner and was so in tuned to me. From the morning alarm
to climbing back into bed at night he was such an integral part of our lives
and he will be so sorely missed that it is physically painful. I use to think
that people who cloned their pets were weird but if I could have him back
exactly as he was and I had the money I would do it in a heartbeat. #1 daughter sent me this poem and all I can do is hope to see him again someday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="usercontent">My best friend closed
his eyes today,</span><br />
<span class="usercontent">As his head was in my hand.</span><br />
<span class="usercontent">The Doctors said he was in no pain,</span><br />
<span class="usercontent">But it was hard for him to stand.</span><br />
<span class="usercontent">The thoughts that scurried through my head,</span><br />
<span class="usercontent">As I cradled him in my arms.</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Were of his young puppy years,</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">And OH...his many charms.</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Today, there was no gentle nudge</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">With an intense "I love you gaze",</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Only a heart that's filled with tears</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Remembering our joy filled days.</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">But an Angel just appeared to me,</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">And he said, "You should cry no more,</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">GOD also loves our canine friends,</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">He's installed a 'doggy-door"!</span> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Time for fireside tales,you know,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Underneath the lamplight's glow.</span></span></div>
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our first frost hit us ending my raspberry harvest</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> That Wednesday we had an afternoon sleet shower which only lasted a few minutes, just a prelude of things to come. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> It has been an odd fall. Everyone is commenting on the amount of wooly bear caterpillars. I have never seen so many and for the first time they all look alike. This year they all have equal rows of black and brown followed by one row of black. For all the abundance in the garden and nature I noticed the barberry bushes on the way to the barn are almost empty and the squirrels are making short work of the winterberry already. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I have finished canning for the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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canning time has now become log splitting and leaf blowing time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The screens came off the windows and the
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the grandsons but at least I am back to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Judy @ Happy Acres</div>Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05282477360968595561noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10120394.post-22462686932188774612013-10-13T21:54:00.002-04:002013-10-13T21:54:35.515-04:00Autumn bounty keeping me busy<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Autumn, laden with fruit, and stain’d<br />
With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit<br />
Beneath my shady roof; there thou may’st rest,<br />
And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe,<br />
And all the daughters of the year shall dance!<br />
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night before we left for Philly I decided to take a break and walk around the
yard. The chipmunk and squirrel were fighting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Walking past the hazel nut tree I decided to gather them so that I could
enjoy some instead of the chipmunk and squirrel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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entered the garden sort of melancholy, another year’s growth come and
gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I grabbed a container and picked
raspberries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After I gathered a quart I
checked on the beans and picked about a quart of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I grabbed the tomatoes that are still
producing, some broccoli and came back inside appreciating this late bounty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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raspberries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was going to bring the
broccoli and beans to #1 daughter but forgot so we got to enjoy them! Tuesday I
went out and picked four pounds of broccoli!</span></div>
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week we dug the potatoes and got approximately 150 pounds not counting what we
have already consumed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cabbage is
grated, salted and fermenting its way to sauerkraut.</span></div>
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I took a neighbor to the farmers market and scored some concord grapes which I
turned into 13 quarts of grape juice for the grandsons. I will continue to
gather whatever still produces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The corn
stalks will come down soon for decorating. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The celery and peppers are patiently waiting
on my attention, which might be a while as we went apple picking again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The trees are so loaded and I hate to see it
wasted so I keep picking and using them or pawning them off on other people who
I know will make use of them. But is is getting to the point that they now slam the door and make
believe they aren’t home when they see me coming!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
horrible but I tend to get this doomsday “must save” “must can” feeling every fall, my
hunter/gatherer inner caveman comes out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dare I say I am waiting on a frost hat would at
least kill everything off and stop this out of control behavior so I can start
a fire and sit in my chair and spin or knit?</span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Judy @ Happy Acres</div>Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05282477360968595561noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10120394.post-36217063610904170982013-09-13T15:56:00.000-04:002013-09-13T15:56:20.274-04:00Seasonal shockings<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">"The foliage has been losing its freshness
through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf <br />
shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen
one season too many."</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;">- Oliver Wendell Holmes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Once
school starts I automatically go into “fall” mode.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I start harvesting everything there is to
harvest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I look forward to the cooler
temperatures and foggy mornings. </span></div>
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to yellow or red and collecting along the sides of the roads, the squirrels and
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> or the dwindling harvest as it rained down some totally
unfall-like weather.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love 60-75 but 90’s
I feel like Frosty going into the hot house full of poinsettia’s. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Having
already taken out the AC I was ill prepared for the heat and humidity which belonged
back in July and August…not my September!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I gave up all thoughts of canning under such inhospitable <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>circumstances and sat miserably in the corner whining
for more ice!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only good part of the
day was the evening thunder storms which brought some relief.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;">But
today dawned cool and refreshing and all was well in my world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I quickly got to work on the green beans,
processing several pints and then came the tomatoes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After getting them on the stove cooking I sat
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came a commercial which had me completely gobsmacked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now
I realize I am rushing the autumn season by a couple of weeks by associating it
with the start of school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I realize
I like autumn <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for the cooler
temperatures but this commercial was for Christmas!!!!!...a whole lot colder
than I want it for a little while longer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Kmart is telling everyone not to wait until the last minute and use
their lay away. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am all for buying
gifts early and if I see something for someone I may buy it in February and put
it away, and as a knitter/crocheter I realize that one must start work on some
gifts while the sweat is dripping from your brow….but advertising for it even
before Halloween …preposterous! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(for
some reason I feel that should be said with a British accent and by a man with
a monocle!) We are not even to the 100 day count down and the fall tv shows
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now still shaking my head, I am going back to my tomatoes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sanity still reigns there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But before I leave I have to show you my
bag.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A <a href="http://www.pafiberfestival.com/">local fiber fest</a> had a contest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This year it was a bag, knit, crocheted,
felted or woven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought about
entering and while going through a folder with patterns I had printed out long
ago and never got to (please tell me I am not the only one that has one of
those) I found the pattern for the <a href="http://littlegreen.typepad.com/romansock/2010/06/the-cluck-clutch-pattern-has-landed.html">Cluck
clutch</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a chicken themed
kitchen and had thought of making this just to stuff and stick on a shelf but
figured I would kill two birds with one stone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So I got out a hook and crocheted the thing up and sent if off to the
festival with <a href="http://riverrim.blogspot.com/">Cyndy</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I never saw it at the festival and I don’t
know how many entered but I won a ribbon….it is only a participation ribbon for
best presentation because I stuffed her with tissue paper to look like a
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It wasn’t a serious
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;">And while my purchases at the festival were small I had a great time. </span></div>
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<span class="bodybold"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. ~ Samuel Ullman</span></span></div>
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<span class="bodybold"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;">On Tuesday there were two monumental
happenings in my life. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I woke up and
suddenly I was getting old… I packed up #2 son for his last first day of school
and #1 daughter turned 30!</span></span></div>
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<span class="bodybold"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;">So far as #2 son, I thought I would be jubilant;
in a few short months there will be no more lunches to pack, no more books to
cover, no more parent teacher conferences, no more homework help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as most “adults” when I get what I think
I want I am not happy with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the
end, all my babies will have graduated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is happiness and pride in their successful graduation but there is
sadness too because now their problems will get bigger than I am able to help
them with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can read their books to
help them with a report, I can organize their research, I can pack a lunch that
their friends try to steal, I can correct their “me and Jim” to “Jim and I” but
after this they are all on their own.</span></span></div>
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<span class="bodybold"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;">And how, when I only graduated “a couple of
years ago” did I end up with a 30 year old kid?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>1982 was only a couple of years ago, right? I know her father looks old
and I know she went to Iraq, married and has two kids of her own but…30?!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Already?!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How the hell did that happen?! </span></span></div>
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<span class="bodybold"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;">And to top it off the garden got a little out
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all in jars had me feeling cranky, exhausted and achy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both physically and emotionally OLD!</span></span></div>
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<span class="bodybold"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;">But as this week draws to a close I see jar
after jar of garden produce . <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know while
#2 daughter and #1 son are at their jobs, #1 daughter will call me at 8:08 when
her husband leaves for work and we will discuss how awesome my grandchildren
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he will leave for work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="bodybold"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I may be getting old but I am not done yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My children are all close and happy well
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<span class="bodybold"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I am not saying I won’t waiver or shed a tear
wishing both them and I were younger again but I guess I have to look at it
like this…</span></span></div>
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<span class="bodybold"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I will never be an old (wo)man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. ~ Francis Bacon </span></span></div>
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<span class="bqquotelink"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/f/francisbac119498.html" title="view quote"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"></span></a></span></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="bodybold"><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/francis_bacon.html" title="view author"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"></span></a></span></span><span class="bodybold"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></span><span class="bodybold"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span>
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<span class="bodybold"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Yikes in 15 years #1 grandson will be close
to his graduation!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am going back to
bed!</span></span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Summer declines and roses have grown rare,</span></em><i><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";"><br />
</span></i><em><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">But cottage crofts are gay with hollyhocks,</span></em><i><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";"><br />
</span></i><em><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">And in old garden walks you breathe an air</span></em><i><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";"><br />
</span></i><em><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Fragrant of pinks and August-smelling stocks. </span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">–</span></em><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">John Todhunter (1839–1916)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">It
is hard to believe that a month has passed by since I posted and that summer is
coming to an end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>School starts in three
days!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">I
was stirring salsa on the stove the other day when I heard gnawing sounds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At first I thought it was the dog in the
living room chewing a bone but realized the noise was coming through the kitchens
screen door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I walked outside and the
ground was littered with chewed bits of hickory nuts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The squirrels are hanging out in the canopy
and little bits of nut husk are floating down making it look like it is
snowing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And they aren’t the only
woodland animals beefing up for the winter; the deer are standing on their hind
legs reaching for the apples.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t
mind sharing and hope they do the same unlike the elderberries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">Like
the animals I am busy preparing for winter…my tomato vines lost their leaves
but the tomatoes are fine and continue to grow and ripen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did 26 quarts of tomato sauce yesterday and
will probably be doing more tomorrow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">Busy driving kids around I missed my green beans starting to produce and
found them when they were too big to do anything with but have since canned
several pints with lots more still on there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The red raspberries are just starting to produce and it looks to be
better than last year’s harvest!!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
blackberries are done but <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I have some blackberry
cordial and brandy “brewing” to warm frozen bodies when the snow flies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">I
seem to be preparing for winter in more ways than one…I knit myself a pair of
socks and #2 daughter’s pair will be done tonight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have also been knitting hats for my grandsons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not having the models available I have knit
several sizes!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh well someone will end
up with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>#1 daughter wanted monster
hats for them to wear until Halloween.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
am surprised she isn’t picking out Thanksgiving hats for me to make them
already.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is quite the task maker! </span></div>
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the garden/canning is done more spinning and knitting will get
accomplished.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Playing right into that
are the fiber festivals coming soon….Endless Mountain and Rhinebeck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After Spring, Fall has to be the most perfect
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lives are made in these small hours</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">These
little wonders, these twists and turns of fate</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Time
falls away but these small hours</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">These
small hours still remain ~ Rob Thomas</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
before you know it these small hours add up and a month has gone by!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yikes! So what remains of a month of small
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">…Visits
with my grandson’s, with more to come on the weekend of the 26<sup>th</sup>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">...A visit from our forest neighbor</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">…days of unusually high temperatures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was forced to install the air
conditioners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last year I didn’t because
I feel shut in all winter and I love to have the shades up and windows open so
I can see & <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hear nature, but I
couldn’t stand the humidity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought I
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spun but then wasn’t matching up when plied so I plied it with some white
singles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Made a pair of fingerless
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garden has thrived in the heat, (and with a little added water from the
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and starting to produce. (Thank You <a href="http://www.blogger.com/riverrim.blogspot.com">Cyndy</a>
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physical for the man while I was diagnosed with Lyme disease.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since meds keep me from going out in the sun
I am so thankful that 90% of the garden was mulched so the weeds won’t over
take the vege’s.</span></div>
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concentrate, strawberry lemonade concentrate, organic raspberry jam and
strawberry syrup.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also froze 8 quarts
of cauliflower and 7 of green pepper slices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> My berries should be ready soon for blackberry lemonade concentrate, pie filling and maybe some cordial.</span></span></div>
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son and daughter have summer jobs which means I am minus a vehicle most of the
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little swimming and fishing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The heavy
rains prior to the heat wave caused flooding .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
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shop which is why I am stuck home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
Jimmy crack corn and I don’t care because the sun is shining the temperature
is perfect with a slight breeze to keep insects at bay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am sitting in the shade of an apple tree
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">wafting through the air, the birds singing ….so relaxing it sounds like a
lullabye!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So much has happen since I
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a new daughter in law would probably be
at the top of the list of happenings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wedding was
awesome and she was beautiful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It rained
the day before, the morning of and the day after but cleared up so they were
able to have the outside wedding they wanted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I cried because #1 son was trying so hard not to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had a photo booth which took a series of
four pictures printed on one sheet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
got to keep a copy and one was put in a scrap book along with a personal
message for the bride and groom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
was usually a line of people waiting to enter but then after a couple of hours
they brought out props and I can’t wait to see the pictures that ensued!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The newly wedded couple is leaving today for
a Caribbean cruise.</span></div>
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daughter had a fantastic week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
passed her driver’s test on Thursday and graduated Friday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next year #2 son graduates and then I will be
done packing lunches and getting sick calls from school nurses.</span></div>
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</span>I thought I could con them into some help but it rained almost every day
they were here!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This year has been a
trial, lots of rain, late frosts, chipmunks digging up seed and I have a deer
with a fawn nearby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is hanging
around my garden eating my apple trees, plum, forsythia, Jerusalem artichokes,
raspberries and anything else that takes her fancy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Someone left the garden gate open and she did
a little damage walking around on my new transplants but thankfully I had
extras to replace them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The apple trees
are loaded, the red and black raspberries and blackberries look like it is
going to be a good year but the grapes bit the dust in the late frost.</span></div>
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of the garden has been papered and mulched with straw which is going to leave
me with some extra time to sit under the apple tree!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We moved some black berry bushes outside the
garden to increase air circulation and we put in stock panels for the tomatoes,
cucumbers and beans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Usually we mulch
our tomatoes and let them lay on the ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Last year I lost a lot of tomatoes to animals (now know it was ground
hog) so I am trying the staking method and hoping for increased harvest at the
same time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mom and I tried staking
once and even though it was a bad tomato year for everyone we weren’t willing
to take the chance again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep your
fingers crossed it works since we need a lot of tomatoes…think a year’s worth
of salsa, V8, spaghetti sauce, picante sauce, pizza sauce, tomato soup, stewed/whole
tomatoes along with eating tomato sandwiches and bruschetta .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Garden diagram for my own reference and
missing most of the herbs and peppers.</span></div>
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have not been knitting much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I made the
bolero for my friend’s daughter and one for my niece.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had a dye day which was fun but in my exuberance
(rushing) I felted it a little.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was
able to still spin the roving but not into lace weight which was a bummer because
it was a green gradient dyed roving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
was able to spin it into a worsted weight and make a small shawl with it but
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pictured above I spun and plied on the electric spinner….very productive but
noisier so I spin on the Traveler and then have a ply day on the electric since
I can get bigger skeins on those bobbins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">On the farm, the milkhouse got a paint job, planted two apple trees and a tulip. Clean up of barberry continues as it quickly grows back if you turn your back for a second! And we have a baby chick. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Spring
and Fall are my favorite seasons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
year Spring is coming in leisurely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
is a great time to notice each little detail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So I was walking to the barn and I turned to see the deer near the house
grabbing a bite to eat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The air is
perfumed by the smell of apple blossoms </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and lilac.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A little further down I notice that the trees
along the lane are leafing out more than those up on the mountainside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The dogwood is blooming in the field.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The chipmunk is chirping his annoyance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sitting outside the greenhouse transplanting
seedings into large containers I see the yellow finch flitting among the
branches of the apple tree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later I look
up to see an oriole in the same tree. The sun was shining and the day was
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hopeful and complete.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Later
in the day I was driving to a friend’s house so her daughter could try on a
bolero (second attempt). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She asked me to make her one to
wear with her graduation (middle school).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This
is the chorus…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I've
been to church <br />
I've read the book <br />
I know he's here <br />
But I don't look <br />
Near as often as I should <br />
Yeah, I know I should <br />
His fingerprints are everywhere <br />
I just slowed down to stop and stare <br />
Opened my eyes and man I swear <br />
I saw God today</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
was George Strait singing “I Saw God Today”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I came home to check it out and it is an older song (2008) which
surprises me that the radio station was playing it since they usually play more
current songs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The song was written
about the birth of a child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not
overly religious and usually my relationship with God is my business and Lord
knows I ain’t having no more kids but the chorus of that song fit the day to a
tee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Complete
song found <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3HsZIQQQe0">here</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Like
a sound, spring spreads and spreads until it is swallowed up in space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like the wind, it moves across the map invisible;
we see it only in its effects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
appears like the tracks of the breeze on a field of wheat, like shadows of
wind-blown clouds, like tossing branches that reveal the presence of the
invisible, the passing of the unseen.” ~ Edwin Way Teale</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
went to Philly for a week when #1 daughter and Sir T welcomed grandson Baby B
into the fold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He weighed 8 lb 11 oz and
was 21 inches long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is Baby O’s
identical twin born 23 months late!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Baby
O or more aptly Toddler O loves him and hopefully they will be very close and
have lots of adventures together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
arrived there on Friday, April 5th with a winter coat on and by Wednesday it
was 89°.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The forsythia, swamp marigold,
magnolias etc were blooming and I was afraid I missed spring arriving in my own
backyard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I should have feared not
as we run about 2-3 weeks behind them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spring is making herself known this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no jumping over her and going head
first in to summer up here so I have been thoroughly <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>enjoying it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
returned home just in time for… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">…two
trips to town for #2 daughters pre-op paperwork and blood work, then she had
surgery for pilonidal cysts and subsequent return doctor visits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The surgery is deemed a success and the final
stitches will be taken out in two weeks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">…opening
day of trout season were several trout were caught.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My brother has contributed to filing my
freezer with some larger than my husband or children have caught but he grew up
here and has more experience!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He tells
them they go fishing and he goes catching!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>…opening of turkey season….well let’s just say
I will be raising some turkeys this year or the Thanksgiving table will be
empty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">…#1
son’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>bachelor party to which I provided
some food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had a high stakes poker
tournament but none of the monies made it home….They must play as well as they
hunt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">…the
bridal shower was held in the Delmonico room in the historic <a href="http://www.hotelfauchere.com/welcome/welcome.php">Hotel Fauchere. </a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(some pics taken from their website)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
was a beautiful day, guests were dining on the veranda and the private garden
is just starting to come to life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The food was delicious, the coffee was
strong and excellent, but the cake was too die for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>…final shopping for #2 daughters prom and the
prom it’s self.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In an attempt to curb
the consumption of alcoholic beverages by the seniors, the prom is held on a
Sunday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They must attend (allowed late
arrival 11:15) school the next day or be suspended.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">…and
my favorite niece unexpectedly stopped by for several days with her children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is ten years younger but her oldest and
my youngest were born three months apart so we deal with the same child
problems at the same time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can go months
without talking and pick right back up when we see or phone each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have tried convincing her to move closer
than 6 hours away but a husband and her schooling prohibits that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">…#2
son’s entry in the Home and Garden Show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He and four class mates in building construction class built a playhouse
to enter into a competition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had to
present it at the H&G show for two days where it was voted upon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were later raffled off and all proceeds
went to local children in the Make a Wish program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their entry was a barn which took second
place to a log fort with water guns mounted on top.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As they were competing against playhouses
built by area builders, I think they did a remarkable job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Along with all that we
have finished cleaning up the garden, have a rough draft of this year’s plants,
transplanted several blackberry plants and flowers, painted the barn, moved
some fences, straightened out the greenhouse to accommodate the numerous flats
of tomatoes, peppers, broccoli, cabbage along with some lupine, lavender and
horehound that we started.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">With
all the social/medical activities, the man’s work and #2 son’s return to his
seasonal job after school being back in the garden and greenhouse is very cathartic
for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have been day dreaming of all
the rewards to come from that one little seed and this morning I was able to
pick the first asparagus of the season. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Needless
to say fiber arts have taken a back seat once again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The man sheared the sheep while I was away
but I haven’t found time to deal with it yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I have continued to spin and I am working on a shawl that you start at
the bottom and knit until you run out of yarn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A friend asked me to make a little bolero for her daughters<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6<sup>th</sup> grade(their junior high)
graduation so I have one on the needles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> But I think I need more therapy so I am headed back out to the garden to listen to the bee's work the flowers of the nanking cherry trees.</span></span></div>
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