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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Auracanas looked like little chipmunks. In fact, I asked the guy who was getting mine for me to get the ones who look most like chipmunks.\u00a0 David said I should call them Chip and Dale, but since they are females, I am going to call them Chippy and Dahlia.\u00a0\u00a0 The Buff Orpingtons are Rosy and\u00a0\u00a0Peony\u00a0 and the Barred Rocks’ names are Violet and Pansy, keeping with the flower theme. In the past my chickens have been named for women in the Bible and women in my Sunday School class. This made it kind of bad when one of them died and I’d have to say so-and-so had died.\u00a0 Miss Mary Foster is one of my older hens and the name of a good friend of mine and I’m thinking when Miss Mary Foster dies, I’m not telling anyone for fear someone would get the wrong idea.<\/p>\n
They are as curious about me as I am of them.<\/p>\n Can you see why I think she looks like a chipmunk?<\/p>\n They keep me company in my shop while I sew.\u00a0 One of them was cheeping all afternoon.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I have had to use this seam ripper several times with these blocks.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This is what I have been working on.\u00a0 I am sewing a mystery quilt featured on Kathleen Tracy’s blog.\u00a0 If you go to her blog and click on the files on mystery quilt, you can get the directions for four months of quilt blocks. When we have them all sewn, she will show us how we are to put them together into a quilt.\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t usually do this kind of thing, but this has been fun and I look forward to each month’s new block. And while going through some of my fabric, I found this fabric that has all the colors in the blocks.<\/p>\n If you are a quilter or sewer, you can understand how I felt when I found this fabric. Kind of like Christmas.\u00a0 I can come upon a fabric I had forgotten about and it’s just like that to me!\u00a0\u00a0 I’m hoping I have enough of this for a border for this quilt.<\/p>\n It just goes so well with all the blocks.\u00a0 It really does not take a whole lot to get me excited especially when it comes to quilting.<\/p>\n Another project I am just starting is this….<\/p>\n Found in this magazine…..<\/p>\n The blocks are made with one and one half inch pieces, the smallest I will go to make a quilt.<\/p>\n Then there is this square to be appliqued and embroidered.\u00a0 I think I am going to really enjoy making this as I do love handwork like this.\u00a0\u00a0 I am making this to hang in my shop.\u00a0 I’ll have to hurry because when the weather\u00a0finally gets warm, I want to be outdoors as much as possible.\u00a0 We are looking at 70\u00a0degree temperatures by the weekend.<\/p>\n And speaking of outdoors, we have corn out for the birds and whoever else wants it, but we never have seen anyone eating it until this week when I saw this squirrel busily munching on it.<\/p>\n He\/she sat there for quite a while picking off kernels and eating them.<\/p>\n We are still feeding the birds, but soon they will be foraging for food in the wild again and won’t need our help.<\/p>\n The puppies are so happy with the warmer temperatures.\u00a0\u00a0 I do believe Molly is smiling here.<\/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