Friday, April 28, 2017

Alpaca Bag

When I ask Faith if she wanted to go to KY and Indiana after the Alpaca fleece to shawl competition, she said, 
"Alpaca bag!"
So we all packed our bags and headed to the competition.
Her 4-H group had to card the alpaca fiber, spin it, ply it, and weave  a shawl in an allotted time.
They had a theme that went along with the color of their shawl;
"A field of tulips"
There were also Alpaca shows being held at the same time.  It was fun to walk around and see these pretty animals.











After it was over, we jumped in the car and headed west.
To KY/IN
Sunday morning we got up early and headed to Jeffersonville with my parents to attend the Seventh Seal Service.
It was wonderful!


We then got to visit with my brothers and sister.  I didn't get too many pictures.....
My brother's pigs....


Faith on the trampoline with her little cousin, Allison.

Then it was back to KY to see Billy and visit at my parents.

Billy found a bunch of fossils at his place....




Lavonne's clematis is blooming....

An arrowhead he found....


Anybody hungry for a mess of poke greens? Yum!
Bro Branham ate poke greens:
"Dinner time, we had poke-greens, if it was up yet, black-eyed peas, or something like that." 
   62-0408  Bro. Branham


Down at Billy's 'crick' there a place where a spring is bubbling out and there's clay oozing out too.

My mom's snowball bush is blooming....

Me and Faith decided to go on a hike down in the woods....
Wanna come?










My mom has a trumpet vine growing in the wheel...
I don't think that wheel is going anywhere anytime soon!

We enjoyed watching the bluebirds going in and out of their nest.
Here is the female:

And here is the male:

See his tail sticking out of the box?

Mom made us chicken and dumplings and biscuits....
absolutely delicious!








See ya'll!!


Thursday, April 13, 2017

Coming out of Hibernation



Since our snowblower wouldn't blow the last snow away, we did it the old-fashion way.......
We dug our way out of hibernation.

Yes it's been a while since we've posted but hopefully we can be more faithful with our blog.  Especially since winter is over.  Yay!

My baby turned 16, we had a visit with some special people, and a visit from a coon, a canoe trip, and a hiking trip....
As we blink our eyes against the sunshine, and shed our coats, and let the woodstove die, we are thankful for making it through 
another winter.



We gave her a surprise birthday party.  
Does she look surprised? haha

We went to the sportsman show at Harrisburg.


Faith had a special visit from her cousin Fiona.
We took her to the Wolf Sanctuary.

And to Chocolate World where we got stuck in the middle of the ride and had to be evacuated!  

This coon decided to visit us the chickens.......

They were not happy about that....neither was I.  
We chased that ol coon away!

Good riddance! 
 
Kyle playing tractors with Pawpaw




We celebrated Bro. Branham's birthday with some of his favorites:
Fried Squirrel
Pinto beans
Corn pone
Cherry Pie


Over winter I started on another Quiet Time Quilt

We kept the birds fed through the winter....


 Faith kept busy spinning, weaving and crocheting.
This was made from Lillia's Grandpa's sheep fleece.

 We're back to hiking and canoeing.....






Boat Buddies








"And, oh, it's wonderful in the springtime"
   53-0608A Bro. Branham