Home Again! More decisions!

I arrived back in Greenwood yesterday afternoon.

Thanksgiving was great!

Coldest day of the six I spent at the "Farm" so all the munchkins stayed inside.

Much running around

and around

and around

the circle between kitchen, dining room and the two living areas!

I think Ethan and Ryan had a great time.

Izzy quite enjoyed playing with assorted grownups-this time with Mommy Bri.

Izzy is an engineer-she loves to build!

Lucas and Kolby where up to shenanigans when the decided to pile onto Brayden!

I made pumpkin and pecan pies, as well as pumpkin bars and a new thing-Apple Cranberry slab pie.

The first three are tried and true, the Apple Cranberry thing was good but not good enough to make again so that recipe hit the recycling!

There was rain and some cloudy days but mostly gorgeous bluebird skies and wind!

Quinn and I walked the farm road,

investigated the barn- it must be an old barn as there are big old beams in the post and beam tradition and 18 inch wide rough timber planking on the walls. amazing-walked out to the pond to see what animals had been visiting (Lots of deer and a raccoon or two.)

Saw this:

I love the texture of mushrooms growing on tree trunks.

Nature provided stunning sunsets, including the one at the top and this one from our last night.

Now for the serious stuff.

I've had a strange couple of months with first the brake lines on the truck needing replaced, 

the tankless hot water boiler cutting out again requiring a lot of explanation to the actual company who makes the unit and then a certified tech visit (apparently the outside vent should not have a 90 degree down turn at the end-when the wind blows it causes a back draft and the unit thinks the vent is blocked-something now on my TO Do list to change), then last Tuesday as I was loading up I received a call saying Ceili had a low tire-again.  They would have put air in it except that apparently the tires had nitrogen in them instead of compressed air!  Who knew?

In the end all the tires have had air added previously, not nitrogen so it wouldn't have mattered.  Scott helped me change the tire for the spare-the culprit causing all the trouble?  A Nail!

Somehow, that was the last straw for me and Ceili.

I am DONE.

I managed to empty most everything out of her and when it warms up in March or April I will make her beautiful and sell her.  I can never get comfortable inside and Quinn really does not like being in her.  Add to that the issues with finding a place to park and all the expense of owning a trailer, I think I'll just stay in hotels.

Now I just have to put all that "Stuff" away!

For today that's enough.

 

Thanksgiving Greetings!

Today is Thanksgiving Day here in the United States!

Quinn, Ceili and I are down at the "Farm" again.

This is my youngest sons favorite holiday.

I realized sometime in 2020 that I wouldn't be hosting holiday dinners any longer.

(Another victim of The Virus.)

So, instead I'm choosing where I want to celebrate!

Of course, I was still delighted to make the pies!

With the children being spread out around the country at least the Missouri Bunch will be together.

Togetherness is what it is all about!

Yesterday Quinn and I took a walk down the farm road next to Scotts place.  

You can just see the house back in the trees.

The first night we were here nature gifted us with this amazing sunset.

Today and everyday I plan to be grateful for everything!

Bright Blessings on you and yours!

 

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A little catching up!

I've been rather silent here for a bit, only a little stitching going on

BUT

I did at long last finish re-arranging my studio! (The final messy place.)

So I though I'd give you a tour.

If you come in the door straight ahead and on your right you see the tables I use to sew on.

One is 6 foot and is currently where I'm working on Trail Mix.

Usually, Belle the Bernina is parked there as I do my quilting on that machine.

The other is a 4 foot table but I made it longer by putting an Ikea cabinet next to it.

I actually filled the cabinet with the things I use often while sewing - and to be honest the things I had no idea what to do with!

Either, Jill the Janome or Edna the Elna are parked here.

Between the two tables is my treadle machine, holding Trail Mix off the floor.

I even put my small design wall back up and no it isn't crooked, I am!

As you walk around the tables you come to my cutting area.

I store fat quarters and precuts in these drawers.

I bought this cabinet YEARS ago and I love it.

The other side of the cutting space has another IKEA cabinet.

This one with big drawers, where I keep larger pieces of fabric.

Earlier this year I had wrapped each piece of fabric around an 8.5 X 11 chipboard, then marked how large the piece was.  I organized the drawers by size and it is all neat and tidy.

I plan to do the fat quarters soon.

The light beside it can easily be turned toward the next part-

The hand stitching spot.

(Yep those are the tumblers-all the papers are out, What a MESS!)

Continuing around the room there's the big design wall. 

It isn't big enough, sigh.

Then the Telly and book shelves.

All of that got moved from somewhere else!

I was sore for days.

I plan on making pin cushions for that empty shelf.

Then comes the ironing board.

I don't have a small ironing board-well I do but it's in Ceili. 

I think it's good for me to get up to do the pressing.

Behind the curtain hiding the foundation below the fireplace is a bookcase with all the messy bits stored on it.  

When the curtains are down I don't have to look at all the mess.

The last corner is designated for the doll house.

I haven't worked on it and I see I need to tidy it up!

The best part of this arrangement is that I don't have to look at this!

So there you have it. 

It wants some decorations, will have to work on that!

 

Fall

 At my house fall means leaves.

This carpets the ground.

I've found the perfect poem for how I feel about

Gathering Leaves

by Robert Frost

Spades take up leaves

No better that spoons, 

And bags full of leaves

Are light as balloons.

I make a great noise

Of rustling all day

Like rabbit and deer

Running away.

But the mountains I raise

Elude my embrace,

Flowing over my arms

And into my face.

I may load and unload

Again and again

Till I fill the whole shed,

And what have I then?

Next to nothing for weight,

And since they grew duller 

From contact with earth,

Next to nothing for color.

Next to nothing for use,

But a crop is a crop,

And who's to say where

The harvest shall stop?