How Was Your Weekend?

Little Miss Fluff is happy. Her new eggs are all fertile!

First I have to tell you that my grandson and I went down into the little Milk Barn this weekend to candle all the eggs that Little Miss Fluff is setting on. To explain what candling is. The room has to be dark. Take a flashlight and set the egg on top of flashlight you can see through the egg and you will see red veins and a black spot. This does not hurt the egg at all, but it is so neat that you can look into the egg at something very special that is going on. In my words, Precious LIFE! All the eggs were fertile. That means baby chicks and 2 ducks. Miss Fluff really likes her new home and she is so safe now. We are still waiting for the two that were saved from the snake, but so far nothing. She lets me pick her up off the nest and check everyday. She really is a sweet little momma. Here is a video of what it looks like when you candle an egg. Usually you can see the little baby swimming around inside the egg. LOVE IT! God is so amazing isn't HE?! I am sooooo thankful that I believe that God created life. It makes me feel so much more loved!

This video is so interesting. Thought you would like to see the inside of an egg that is fertile.

I want you to meet "Red Hen" she is adorable. She is not very big, but she is really a smart chicken. She, another hen and rooster used to stayed in the Milk Barn all winter but I had to move them out when I moved the baby ducks and baby chicks in. The three of them just roam around the farm and sleep on the steps of the milk barn at night. Anyway Red Hen wanted to come in the day I was moving Little Miss Fluff into safety. She sat on top of a bale of loose hay and I thought that maybe she wanted to start sitting because she made a nest. Ended up that she just wanted to lay an egg. It started to be really funny, because each day I would go down to check on the chickens and ducks and she would come right up to me. I would put her in the little cage (if I let her go free Little Miss Fluff attacks her. Really kind of funny to see those two little hens in a big fluff)! I let Red Hen lay her egg and then she starts squawking to be let out. I will see if I can video it some time. It really is getting to be neat how she lets me know she wants to lay an egg. This morning she found me in the yard. I picked her up and took her so she could lay her egg. I always leave an egg in until the next day so she will see it is her egg. You can see the egg she laid yesterday. She takes her beak and tucks it under her usually. Love the farm life!

Just for fun I am posting this tutorial for you, if you would like to join in!

I belong to a quilter group called A Dozen Quilters. It has been a really fun group to belong to. If you go to the site you will find wonderful ideas. Every month a different lady comes up with a block for the rest of us to do. May is my month!!!!!! I wanted to do a Grandmother's Flower Garden Quilt. After they send me the 11 blocks back I will be taking the blocks and be making a new pattern called "My Grandmother's Flower Garden Lap Quilt". If you want to follow along with us, you will need a 1 yd. piece of muslin, each block measures 8 x 8" and 1/8 yd. each of 12 different fabrics you could use only 6 if you would rather. You could make only one block and make a simple pillow if you like. Use scraps if you like for this quilt.

Follow the instructions below to make Grandmother's Flower Garden flower.

You will need

7- 1" paper hexagon pieces

1- 2 1/2" square of muslin

6 -2 1/2" square of printed fabric.

1- 8" x 8" square of muslin for each block

Thread and needle

1. Place paper hexagon template *(we have 14 available, see below)

on top of 1 piece of 2 1/2 square of muslin for

the center and wrong side of 6 2 1/2" printed fabrics.

2. Cut off the corners of square.

3. Fold fabric around the hexagon paper and pin in place. Miter

each corner. With needle and thread tack the corners at each

corner.

Starting at one point with needle and thread. Sew together one light and printed fabric hexagon. Sew across tacking both. Sew up one

side of flower before you add another hexagon (look at last photo)

Do the same for each flower until you have complete flower made.

DO NOT TAKE THE PAPER OUT OF THE HEXAGON FABRIC PIECES, UNTIL YOU ARE FINISHED

WITH THE FLOWER

AND ARE READY TO PUT FLOWER BLOCK ON THE BLOCK.

Press flower with iron after you take papers out.

Pin and CENTER flower to 8" x 8" muslin block. Quilt around 1/16” inside each hexagon.

I just love making these flower blocks using the paper hexagon pieces.

They make up perfect every time! I have a baggie with all the items

I need to work on while I am sitting.

If you are interested in trying this and you would like to buy 14 paper hexagons

(the papers are reusable),

please pay:

$2.00 USA

$2.25 CANADA

AND $2.75 OVERSEAS.

Please email me, if you are interested and I will send out an invoice,

if you choose to pay by paypal.

or

check payable to:

Prairie Flower Farm

8319 N. Sterling Rd.

Sterling, Kansas 67579

PLEASE REMEMBER I WILL NEED YOUR ADDRESS TO

SEND THE HEXAGON PAPERS TO YOU!

Pattern will be for sale and available in June sometime.

Last night a storm was coming through. The sky was..................no kidding a blood red.

It truly was kind of creepy!! We have never seen anything like it before.

Have a Blessed Day! Just know that you are loved, by me and JESUS! What a deal! smile