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Miss Mary Foster, my little crippled hen, but she doesn’t know that.\u00a0 She lays one egg almost every day.<\/p>\n “Where’s the chicken crack?”<\/p>\n I have two Buff Orpingtons. They are so pretty and good egg layers also.<\/p>\n Every time I go to Rural King, I look at the baby chickens if they have them.\u00a0 My flock is down to nine birds from twelve so I really can’t add many more until some of them go to, ahem, chicken heaven.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We won’t talk about that, though, especially around the ladies.\u00a0\u00a0 Having chickens is just so much fun for me and I can’t see a future without them.\u00a0 I have to hire a pet sitter for them when we go away just like for the dogs.<\/p>\n Just had to share these pictures of Molly Marshmallow sitting out in her chair nodding off to sleep.<\/p>\n She almost fell off the chair and I was laughing at her as I took her pictures.<\/p>\n My pets give me endless joy.<\/p>\n I told you in my last post I was doing a mystery block quilt and I finally got it done.\u00a0 In fact, I got several done.\u00a0\u00a0 Kathleen Tracy shared this pattern on her Facebook page so if you want to make one of these quilts, go to her group under files and find the pattern. It’s really simple, something I needed right now and yet\u00a0I ended\u00a0up with a very cute quilt.\u00a0 Here are mine….<\/p>\n This was the first one I made.\u00a0 I bought the ticking at an antique store and the floral fabric I originally bought years ago to make an apron, but decided I’d rather put it in quilts as I have a lot of aprons already.<\/p>\n Then I decided to make a Christmas themed one…<\/p>\n And then another vintage looking one… And material for yet another one, which I already have all cut out… These little quilts are almost addictive. They are quick to make and now I have a good start on next year’s Christmas!<\/p>\n I bought this book of Kathleen Tracy’s a while back and have made a few small quilts from it.<\/p>\n I made the quilt that is on the cover. Don’t have it quilted yet, but think this one will be hand quilted.<\/p>\n Here it is hanging behind my cardio-glide which I use once in a while for exercise.<\/p>\n I have my quilting mojo back. It kind of got lost in my sock knitting craze. I still knit a little every single day and everyone got or is getting socks if they want them for Christmas. I just hung them up on the fireplace mantle and let people pick a pair they want.<\/p>\n You can just see the socks on the mantle at the right.<\/p>\n We had one Christmas gathering with family already last Saturday night.\u00a0\u00a0 We had a good time together, although one of my grandsons was not feeling well. They found out this week he has abcesses in his colon and is on antibiotics for it now.\u00a0\u00a0 He was really sick for a few days.\u00a0\u00a0 Anyway, I gave him and his older brother each a pair of these socks.(warning to all Trump haters, don’t look!)<\/p>\n There is a company called John’s Crazy Socks. This man has a son with Down’s Syndrome and they started a company together and sell all kinds of socks and I found these and knew I had to buy them.<\/p>\n Along with the socks, I got a thank you note from John and a small bag of Skittles.\u00a0 Kind of a nice touch for a company.<\/p>\n Anyway, the socks were a hit.<\/p>\n Put on and modeled. The socks come with a little comb to\u00a0 comb President Trump’s hair.<\/p>\n Went out\u00a0yesterday and saw these flowers blooming.<\/p>\n Honeysuckle. Confused because we have had such warm temperatures the past few days.\u00a0 It won’t last, but it’s been nice.<\/p>\n Before we know it, it will be Spring. Someone said only about ninety-five days away which will\u00a0fly by like it all does now.<\/p>\n Another project that I have become obsessed with.\u00a0 Making twine.\u00a0 I got the directions from this magazine which I love.<\/p>\n They call it ribbon in the magazine, but I call it twine.\u00a0 It’s great for decorating packages, but I also think I will use it to tie up plants on stakes and maybe use as shoelaces.\u00a0\u00a0 Here’s how much twine I’ve made so far.<\/p>\n It’s really fun to make and is so pretty.\u00a0\u00a0 And last, but not least, another quilt I plan to make after Christmas, if not before…..<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n