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Oh, this baby blanket. Thought I was just going to burn through getting it done. I was excited about the simple, repeating pattern, the colors, and that I would easily have it done in less than a week. Started in on it full blast and then, I don't know what happened, it sat in the box since Christmas. I even kept it right in front of my chair so I would feel like I needed to work on it. I think part of the problem is that I just don't see as well at night as I use to. There, I admit I have old eyes. Finally this last week I picked it up and did more than a quarter of it in the past couple days. Now that it is done I love it, No baby to give it to on the horizon, but I think I will put it in the fair this summer.</div>
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The pattern is leaping stripes and blocks. A tutorial can be found at <a href="http://www.mooglyblog.com/leapingstripes-blocks-blanket-crochet/">Moogly Blog</a> </div>
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Celebrated our 28th anniversary at the movies. Went to Pirates of the Caribbean because that is what the kids wanted to see.<br />
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I didn't think it was as funny as the other Pirates of the Caribbean movies, but it did have lots of action and we enjoyed it immensely.<br />
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Rain or Shine. When I sign up for these events and see rain or shine on the form, I never even give it a second thought because, of course, it is going to be shine. Well, joke was on me this morning, it was rain. And not just sprinkles. It was heavy rain. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaii-4pIZ5BZhoiaRPpcO0NFQOfy8tLmnlKnQfYZHrR37LnmMGo8Enl-9pZf5f2iybx-cFvHJ9HwkFnaTXhbKxh7OzEsWN23kQBqa0fQqYiH3hmptK6k20psn6PjgsftD8SNtXpg9p5t8/s1600/Screenshot_2017-05-20-16-41-57.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div>
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See, we are still smiling at the end!</div>
~*~The Family~*~http://www.blogger.com/profile/10318808045089371749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2418728521210487913.post-80525078099865834162017-05-20T19:47:00.000-05:002017-05-30T20:41:28.020-05:00Mother's Day Bliss<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Celebrated my 20th Mother's Day this year. Wow. Also celebrated my first Mother's Day without a mother. Wow.</div>
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Dancer worked on the actual Mother's Day so she and I celebrated a few days early. Her gift to me, or should I say treat to me, was a pedicure. I had never had a pedicure, I'm not one to like people, especially people I don't know, fussing over me. Also the cost. Dancer and I paint each other's nails at home, so it seemed frivolous to pay someone to apply a little polish on something that spends most of the time in my socks. But then I sat down in that massage chair and oh, my, goodness. Then the nice lady, who I held off telling her I loved her because it would seem odd, massaged my feet and legs and double oh, my, goodness. She did paint my toes a beautiful shade of purple, but I am counting that more of a souvenir of my time in the massage chair. Wonderful, I will be back. </div>
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On Mother's Day my family gifted me with two gifts. One was an extra battery for my phone. You can never have to much battery. My phone seems to use much more battery away from home than it does at home. Odd how that works.</div>
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My second gift was this metal rooster. I love this bird, he is so well behaved! He doesn't get up early and crow outside my bedroom window looking for the cat food bucket. And he doesn't poop on the porch or deck. He is suppose to be a lawn ornament, but I think he is better suited for the living room. Besides, we have plenty of chickens outside roaming the lawn. </div>
<br />~*~The Family~*~http://www.blogger.com/profile/10318808045089371749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2418728521210487913.post-77640865367254316642017-05-19T00:33:00.000-05:002017-05-19T00:33:18.710-05:00Dad adds a year<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy Birthday!</div>
~*~The Family~*~http://www.blogger.com/profile/10318808045089371749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2418728521210487913.post-20122598340039327142017-05-14T16:18:00.000-05:002017-05-14T16:18:09.951-05:00Let The Sun Shine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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~*~The Family~*~http://www.blogger.com/profile/10318808045089371749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2418728521210487913.post-88083058742685432982017-04-18T15:45:00.000-05:002017-04-18T15:45:09.451-05:00YouTube for cats We were checking out April the Giraffe on YouTube and that got us interested in other live cams. These live cams are a little addictive and more entertaining than some t.v. shows. We were watching a bird nest and the bird sounds brought Fluffles out from where ever he spends his days to see what was going on.<br />
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Second bunny had only nine folds and we successfully made a whole fluffle of bunnies. The bunny stands up and you can brighten up your Easter table by using them as name place cards. We have to say that this pin is winner, winner, bunny dinner.</div>
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Since our co-op is three boys, we tend to navigate towards food pins and tried the cinnamon roll Easter bunnies. The boys bravely opened the cans of premade cinnamon rolls. Those things scare the crap out of me, but they didn't even flinch.</div>
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They spread out the rolls for the head and cut one roll apart to have dough for the ears. The directions stated to leave a space in the middle of the ear to allow for the dough to grow. Pop them in the oven following the baking directions on the can if you haven't already thrown the can away.</div>
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We would call this pin a success because, even if you make the ears to short, you have cinnamon roll bears.</div>
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This is an Irish dish, but don't feel like you have to save it for St. Patrick's Day, enjoy it all year.<br />
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Our 4H club enjoyed a behind the scenes peek at a greenhouse. So much more goes on there than meets the eye.</div>
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We finished up the day with a visit to a goat dairy. Nothing will make you say "ahhh" faster than 80 plus goats all together. This pen held over 25 newborn kids. Made me think we needed more goats, but then I came to my senses. Dancer's goat Jamal is from this dairy so I scoured the mommy goats to see if I could see the one that might be his mom. There were a couple that would fit the bill so there will be no definite family reunion for him. </div>
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Time for the llamas to have their annual check ups. We are fortunate that a number of vet students from the U of M come out to a local farm and hold this clinic every spring. It is very hard to find vet familiar with llamas so this is a huge blessing. The girls got a good once over, their teeth checked, shots, dewormed and toe nails trimmed. </div>
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Honey Bear and Dancer. Honey Bear was all done and very interested in sampling the hay. She has been eating hay out of the same field all year so perhaps this hay from another field was a real treat for her.</div>
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We have had three birthdays since our last post. Spark was way back in October. Lots of presents.</div>
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And of course, birthday cake with 16 candles.</div>
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My birthday was in February. No candles because I had an ice cream cake and the number of candles for my age would probably melt the cake!</div>
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There is a national day for just about everything under sun. They range from the common, such as, Grandparents Day, that even gets a mention on most calendars, to the uncommon celebration of the rather morbid National Life Insurance Day. Over the last couple of years we have added celebrating these days into our homeschool. We mostly focus on the days that are food related or one that can be celebrated with food. The first reason for the food focus is our co-op is teenage boys, who are always looking for something to eat, and secondly, teenage boys are not interested in making a craft that goes along with a theme. There might be one, or maybe even two out there, but I don't know them.</div>
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The Running of the Llamas is a fun celebration that was held in Hammond, Wisconsin. This was the 20th, and final year, of the event. During the event, which packs the town with people far and wide, heats of four llamas race down the street for about two blocks to the finish line. Some llamas are great runners and others are not all that interested. A llama that isn't interested in doing something just doesn't do it. If you are holding on to a lead of such a llama, you may not even get over the starting line. Spark brings Marceline because she makes it her goal to be the leader of whatever group of llamas she is in. This means that she naturally wants to be in the front of the pack and that her personality makes her a strong competitor in a race. The last two years Spark and Marceline won their heats, but came in third over all. Since this was the last year, Spark ran sprints in the backyard for a good portion of the summer to get ready for a win.</div>
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The wreath. For the base of the wreath have about 12-15 slices of wood roughly the same size. My base slices were about 4 inches across so how many you need will depend on how large you want your wreath and how big they are. Lay them out on the table in a circle arranged so that they have the most surface edge touching. Hot glue the pieces where they touch and this is the base of the wreath. By itself it will not be sturdy enough, this is where the smaller slices come in. Lay them over the middle of two of the base layer slices and glue the heck out of them. Do this all the way around and there is no way this wreath is coming apart. Keep adding slices to add depth and dimension. </div>
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The bow. Making a perfect bow is difficult at best, especially if you are working with a stiff material like burlap. For this reason I don't even try and no one will know the difference. The bow on this wreath is made of four pieces. Two for the loops and two for the streamers that hang down. Hot glue is again your friend for making this look like it is the perfectly tied bow. The hot glue also insures that this bow isn't going anywhere. Add an adornment and it's done.</div>
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The cost. Others of these I have seen made had a store bought base. I skipped that part for two reasons. First, I would have to wait to make this until I had a chance to go into town and I'm not even sure where you buy such a thing so I would have to go looking around. And second, it would add to an already heavy project. Unless you know you are hanging this where there is a stud in your wall, over time it will make a large hole in dry wall. Also it needs more than a picture frame nail to hang it up. The slices Dad cut for me from downed branches in the yard. I have seen these slices in craft stores for an insane amount of money. If you don't have a table saw to cut your own, do some networking in your neighborhood, someone must have some sort of saw that will cut these for you. Bring them some fresh baked cookies if they seem hesitant. The pine cones I had in the craft closet that I picked one day when we were geocaching, so free. The ribbon I got on clearance at Walmart. It wasn't the right size so I had to cut it. Don't let the wrong size ribbon keep you from a good deal. The ribbon was $1.50 and I used about a quarter of it making the final cost of the wreath 37 cents plus however much hot glue you use. </div>
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When the pumpkins were all lined up it made me think of the book I read to the kids at least a hundred times when they are little to teach ordinal numbers, "Five Little Pumpkins Sitting On a Gate." Click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm1qvX1ygOo">here</a> to hear the song if you aren't familiar with it or just want to walk down memory lane.</div>
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We have had our guinea fowl about four years and the first couple of years were excited that we would have babies. We never got any babies. The only thing I got was jealous when I heard of other people who's guineas were having successful hatchings. We started with eight birds and this fall are down to two, thankfully a male and female. To our surprise they came out of the swamp the other day with, as far as we can count, 17 baby keets. It's been three days and it looks like they still have all of them. They are a crazier, more aggressive bird than a chicken, and they co-parent unlike a chicken, so maybe they will manage to get a couple of them to adulthood. The keets are so tiny though they look like peanuts running through the grass after their parents. There has also been an eagle circling the house so they better keep them close or they will go on the raptor buffet. </div>
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State fair was a little different for us this year. Dancer started school and wasn't able to bring a project this year, but she still wanted to be able to go to the the fair. To make this work we had to work around her class schedule and Spark needed to attend the encampment (where the county buses the kids to the fair and they stay in the 4-H Hilton on the fair grounds). He went down the day before us and we dropped him off for the bus. I don't know if he was more excited or I was more nervous. The next day we picked Dancer up from school and headed down, which was an adventure all on it's own. It took us almost as long to find a parking spot as it did to drive there.</div>
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Spark did great, he earned a blue ribbon for his pelargonium. The judge said she wasn't impressed with his plant, but she was impressed with his in-depth knowledge of it. </div>
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We were given a spaghetti squash a few years ago from someone who had a garden overflowing with them and loved it. The next couple of years we thought that we would just grow our own and not have to rely on kindness from others. Well, we were unsuccessful in getting them to grow for some reason and gave up on them. This summer we decided to try our hand at them again and we grew a plant that took over the garden. I don't know why some years certain plants grow and other years they don't. Anyway, if you're fortunate enough to get your hands on a spaghetti squash, here is what you do with it.</div>
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Take it out and rake over the flesh with a fork. The strands, or spaghetti, will easily pull away from the rind. Use this just as you would spaghetti. </div>
<br />~*~The Family~*~http://www.blogger.com/profile/10318808045089371749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2418728521210487913.post-21517548660801044752016-08-26T00:01:00.000-05:002016-08-26T00:01:57.142-05:00Cut a Rope With Itself<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So you find yourself in a situation where you need to cut a rope, but you don't have anything to cut it with. When would this ever happen? I don't know, but that's not the point. The point is, if you ever are in a situation where you need to cut a rope, you can impress everyone with this little trick. </div>
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Step on one end of the rope, leave some slack and step on the rope with your other foot. Then loop the rope through the slack and pull up. </div>
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Start sawing back and forth and, depending on how thick your rope is, in a minute or two you will have caused enough friction to "saw" the rope.</div>
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The rope is suppose to be cut on the slack part where you were sawing back and forth. This picture shows how successful we were with that. Only one strand of the rope was cut.</div>
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We cut the rope with the part that we were sawing with. Not sure how it worked this way so we tried other types of rope, aka yarn, and the same thing happened. Either way, we ended up with two pieces. The only problem is if it cuts with the sawing part of the rope you can't measure how long your two pieces will be.</div>
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