Going Green? Seriously?

I read an article today for teachers about ways to Go Green for a new school year.
It actually said "Give up the Post it notes".

Are they crazy? I'll buy more green ones instead...

Quilting Revisited

This spring I joined a quilt swap. I had to make 20 quilt squares with barns on them to swap with 20 other participants, each making different buildings and animals making up a Town. Chickens included!

.


There is a post office, school house, general store etc. I just received the package of squares this week and they are AMAZING!



I'm so glad to have started sewing again. Despite the limited space in here, it's been very rewarding (and I've gotten very good at setting up shop and breaking it down quickly!). Someone talked me into hosting a swap of my own. I think I might be too easy...

We hope 16 participants will make 16 holiday squares to swap. So far we have 12 swappers with many beautiful squares; a wreath, angel, trees to name a few.

I'm learning how to paper piece a snowman. What a cool method!



The snowmen will get details eventually...I'm trying to get the piece work done before school starts in August.

Want to join the swap? Check out this link http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=215816

I guess I can't figure out how to make a link within this post so if you want to join click the title "Quilting Revisited" and it will take you there...

Harley Davidson

Can you guess whose family fun this is????

Grammy's Blueberry Cake

we are macin a blueberry cake to spraz my dad.


This is when we poured all the ingredients in the bowl.


Next we blended all the ingredients together.


Next we poured the tasty blueberries.


Then we scraped the dough into the pan.


Then we sprinkled sugar and cinnamon on the dough. It makes the cake look like it's baking.



THEN comes my FAVORITE part, licking the bowl and the spoon!
(Note the emphasis here...)




Next we wait for it to cool down.
Then last, but not least, we eat it.

Mmmmmmm! This is good!


This entire entry was written by and then dictated by Cooper
:)

Story Land

We made it to StoryLand last week with some friends! Cooper could not get enough and can't wait to go again. He was terrified of the Bamboo Chute, which is like a water log ride, but once he made it the first time through he could have spent the entire day riding that one ride.

An interesting moment in the day happened when the power went out in the entire town of Glen. The circus was canceled, and the vendors who didn't know how to make change were left sweating. Lots of slushy, tasteless snow cones were being eaten.

The kids were wonderfully behaved and we ended the visit with, what else? ICE CREAM!

A little tune from Corm...


Got Milk?


Happy faces on the ferris wheel...the photographer's face was a bit green. Blaah.


Watch out Africa, here I come!


Here we go Mates, I'll be your tour guide today....


Mother Who?




YES! It was a great day.

Blueberries, blueberries, blueberries

What's your favorite thing to do with this tasty fruit about to be in season at the top of the Ridge?

Shawn loves his mom's blueberry cake recipe and forget where I put it after every season...silly girl. I'll have to dig around the kitchen for it.

River Trails

We found a beautiful riverside trail nearby.



The kids had fun walking along the rocks, scaring the parents. In the end we let them splash around in the water and decided it would be a great place to picnic and plant a letterbox or two in the future!



Oh yes, and Corm wrestled a bear...

and won!

Cool Trick with a cool phone

I found an app for my phone called Color Splash...look what you can do! I could spend a lot of time fiddling around, making a black and white photo have color in certain places. I obviously have not mastered it at all but it sure is very neat!

As if I have nothing else to do all day long...

Garden

i made a gardin. i like it. its fun to chase the chickens out of the garden.

Wells Beach

Hooray for Sunshine! We spent Friday with cousins and DebbieDebbie at Wells Beach. Cooper is quite a wave surfer these days and Cormack loves the water too. Building sand castles is fun, sand stuck to your feet, not so fun. Coop is obsessed with sand-free feet...PLEASE!


It's tradition to stop for ice cream before we leave Wells, YUMMY. Cooper has moved from Vanilla to Dinosaur Crunch to Cookie Dough in the last year. Now he is an ardent Chocolate fan!
He wears it well.

Bunny Recovered

Last night Cooper's rabbit named Cow went missing. He was most upset..."I've never felt this sad" he claimed between sobs.

It looked like the bunny crept into a hole in the wall near our bathroom. We left his cage open and figured he'd come back when he got hungry. No such luck!

Eventually I, with the help of my neighbors, pulled back some of the skirting around the house and VOILA! There was the little bugger hopping around in the dirty dark! It must have been quite a drop from the hole he found, and an adventure spending his first night out.

We are glad he's back!

How to Build a Bird Feeder

Me and my mom built a bird feeder today. Here's how we did it...

First choose a container.

Then design a roof.

Draw the doors.

Let a grownup or a big kid cut out the doors.

Next, peek through the holes!

Choose a perch. We used a chop stick.

Next, put the perch through and attach the roof. Oh, don't forget the hanger!

Now put your favorite kind of birdseed in.

Tie the bird feeder to a branch that you can see out your window.

And wait for the birds to come!!

Berry Picking

this is wen we wr picking straw barys. me and corm wr chasing
echathr.
by coop

Chickens

Goodness, those baby chicks were so cute. Here's how they look now...

Trying it again!

OK, last summer this fell to the wayside very quickly, maybe this year will be better!

The kids have started a busy summer. We've been slipping and sliding at Water Country, jumping in LOTS of puddles and watched the fire works with a sleepover at Uncle Tom's. Yahoo!