We have a Winner!!!!!!!!!!

Hello sweet ladies,

I have to tell you that every time I have a party, the comments get more fun!!!!!! I love it when you tell me a little about who you are, what you like to do and other little tidbits about yourself. It is so nice that you join in when I do have a party. Thank you soooo much. It is like we are truly family.......and ya know what? We are! Amazing how the Lord just knits us all together. So thankful for each one of you!

We have a winner for the little sewing kit!!!!!!!!

The winner is Sharee!!!!

Her blog is Shar's Stitchin......

you must go over and see all her stitchin!!!!!!!

I emailed her and waiting for her addy so I can send it out!!!

Tonight I took Lil' Birch out for play......thought you might like to see him playing hide and seek in the grass! He is adorable! He was so frisky........running after the guineas, roosters and the farm cats. I wish I could have gotten it on the video for you....I tried, but the wind was so loud on it. 

We are still praying for the tragedy in Boston! 

What a sad sad thing to happen to so many families!! 

Hugs to you and God Bless, 

Linda

Jesus will Be with US!

Hello sweet ladies,

What a sad day for our country yesterday. I trust you are all finding comfort in this horrible act of violence that happened in Boston. Please....... if anyone of you that are from there or in anyway have been affected by this, we here are praying. If there is anything that we can do to help even though we live far, please let us know what we might be able to do to help. May God bless America! I do know that His Holy Spirit will be moving in the lives of believers across our land. 

My little radishes are popping up out of the earth........the rain has helped our garden so much this spring. We are thanking the Lord for the provisions He has given. The drought we have been in for the last two years have made it difficult to grow, even though we saw the Lord work miracles on our crops. We are getting more rain today and the rest of the week we still have more coming. We are so so Thankful!!!!!!!!

Jesus thank you that you are all we need during this time of sadness. Please touch the lives that need healing and comfort. Use your body of believers who have Your Holy Spirit minister the love of Christ to those in need. We thank you for being our strength in time of need! 

I will let everyone know later today who won the "Little Sewing Kit". 

God be with us please.......we need you so,

Linda

A Little Sewing Kit Party!

Hello sweet ladies,

Yesterday we went to the baseball game. Since we have been encouraging the young men on the team, we have attend a lot of the games. Some of them are the ones that come to our home on SONday and also to the Bible study my sweet man has been having. It is a little thing, but the boys love knowing we are out in the stands cheering for them. 

I had some fun at the Quilting Bee!

Yesterday we traveled to Salina to a quilt store that has been one of my favorites over the years. It is located in Salina and it is was one of the first stores we had our patterns and fabric in. Then life kind of changed for us as we were caring for our parents and I started selling our patterns with a company and still do called Keepsake Quilting. I have only two of those patterns with them. I have been thinking a lot on how to get more of our "new" patterns out again and have quite a few ideas on how to do that. I am so busy during the winter months with working at the college, I just don't have theWhen I came across this book, my brain started in again. I have had this book before and didn't know that it was still being published....... 

I bought it!

Easy way to find a quilting store in the USA and Canada. They sell this book at The Quilting Bee! Only $20.00 and really nice for when you are traveling.

If you ever want me to look up a state and city for you I can! 

I am always looking for little gifts to have on hand.......when I saw this I thought of you all!!!!!!!

Thought it would be fun to start the week with a little giveaway! This is a small (2 1/4" x 3 1/4") sewing kit....... in the cutest little tin. It has everything in it that you might need. No kidding it is little.......but practical to have in your purse when you need something real fast! Cute cute!!!!! When I saw it at the Quilting Bee I thought it would be fun for a party!

The party starts Today until Tuesday April 16th.......at noon Central Time!

Invite your friends to join in if you would like.

So here goes.........

Vote 1

the comment will be.........if you could quilt or work on a stitchery what would it be? Please leave comment in the comments......or if you don't have a blog....leave the comment in my email 

prairie flower farm at g mail dot com, 

with Little sewing kit in the subject!

Vote 2 

Have you ever downloaded one of our patterns?

Easy! Anyone is invited........overseas are welcome!!!!!

This is a simple little party giveaway. You know me......I love a party and it just seemed like Prairie Flower Farm has had so much going on. 

As you know we lost Sweet Magnolia........but we did get a gift from her before she died. I miss her terribly......she was a precious Momma!

Lil' Birch is the sweetest and most wonderful little gift the Lord has given to us this last week. Lil' Birch has filled our hearts with so much fun and love! He is so dependent on us for his care and we are having fun giving it to him. Yesterday when we had to leave to travel, we had one of our friends and son watch him for us so we could go. Lil' Birch and Adam (6 year old boy) played all afternoon at their place. Lil' Birch runs and hops now and Adam had him doing that all afternoon! 

Hope your SONday is a wonderful day of worship.

 I have a verse that I pray a lot for my family. When I am praying I always ask the Lord to do the same for you! I love these verses.

Ephesians 3:14-21

 For this reason I knee before the Father from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,  may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,  to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

Blessings on your SONday!!!!!

We are having a cookout with the college kids from the college. It will be a good day. One of our boys is from a very very rough city! He has seen much in his life......shootings and such. He loves to garden.......that's were we will be later today after church! It will be good! Can't wait to show him how to play in the DIRT! One of my favorite things to do in the spring! Hope we have had the last of snow, sleet and ice!!!!!!

Hugs, 

Linda

Sweet Magnolia Died

Hello sweet ladies, 

I know that some of you who follow my fb already know that Sweet Magnolia didn't make it through Wednesday night. Broke my heart. Not sure what happened, but with the bad weather and not noticing that she had blood spots in her shed it made it hard to know what happened. It was so cloudy and sleet where she lived with Lil' Birch we did not notice on the straw that she had bled.Later found that it was quite a lot.  I am so thank that I have her baby. He is doing very well at taking the bottle. He is now up to 10 ounces each feeding and loves being down with the teenage chicks, ducks and Momma kitty with her baby kittens. He doesn't even cry, which is a huge blessing. Thank you to all who prayed. I know the Lord heard them. The transition for Lil' Birch has been very smooth. Life on the farm doesn't always look pretty for sure. I get so attached easily!!!!!! I would rather love then never experience though. I am hoping to buy another Rambouillet Ewe again.....soon!

I have Sweet Maggies wool.....another gift!  I will be seeing about getting it spun and knitting myself a gift. Thinking of a scarf.  

I wish I could put up pic's, but if you would like to see a video please go here to my fb. He is absolutely adorable. Very playful. I will introduce him to the flock when he gets a little bigger. 

Hugs and God bless your day! 

Linda

Momma Sweet Maggie and Lil' Birch

Good morning sweet ladies,

Just a little update. Sweet Magnolia took a turn for the worse yesterday. She is over at my farm friend Cheryl's place to see if she can get better. Lil' Birch is on goats milk for now. Something is going on with her udder and he can't nurse. I will say he is doing wonderful with his bottle. Wages his sweet tail as he drinks. Just thought you would like to know as you follow along with their lives. 

He is living down in the Milk House with teenage chicks, Waddle and Puddles, a momma cat with kittens and the Momma Cochins. He has a lot of friends! 

Hope your day is a sweet one!!!!!!!

Linda

A Birthday Present........Lil' Birch!

Dear sweet ladies, 

It was my birthday yesterday and what made it so sweet was when we got home from the caf. I went straight from the car to go and check on Sweet Maggie.......I quietly peeked into the pen with camera ready......just in case.......this is what I saw. A precious little baby. Only one, but that was okay. I was glad it was finally here.....safe with it's Momma!

He was almost all cleaned up by the time I got home. She was still licking on him....she was very gentle with him. My sis and I talked soon after and she said the names Spruce, Birch and something else. Can't remember the other name......but when she said Birch it was like that was perfect for him!!!!! 

Momma's one side of her udder was huge. My farm friend Cheryl said she would come over today to check on them. In the morning she gave Lil' Birch colostrum. It helped. She gave Sweet Maggie some antibiotics and hopefully she will be feeling better soon. Another dose will be given on Thursday. Poor Momma. Cheryl emptied her full udder, that will help her also.

When I got home this evening Momma Sweet Maggie was lovin on her sweet baby. Absolutely love this pic.....needs to be in my sheep cards!!!!!!! Doesn't he have the sweetest face?

Cheryl came around 5 tonight to bring a bottle, goats milk and some  Lamb Milk Replacer for Lil' Birch for Lil' Birch. He will still nurse on his Momma though. I am so thankful he is doing better. I love watching Cheryl with sheep. She is a real Shepherdess. I will keep you posted as to what is going on.

Tonight we are having a huge storm coming through, hail, winds, lightening, thunder and rain. We have asked for protection for our farm and thanking the Lord for the rain.

God bless you,

Linda

Getting The Sheds Built and A Day With Wool!

Hello sweet ladies.......I have missed posting. Life has just been so full with so many things going on. We are winding down at the college and I can hardly wait until it is behind me. I am so ready for farming.......gardening.......sewing......staying home.......and posting more about Prairie Flower Farm and what is happening around here. I have so many things that I want to do this summer!

This morning I had apple pie for breakfast, what a way to start the day don't you think? My Tay made it for the family. It was delicious. We always use this recipe for our pies. Very very easy to make. I pinned to my Pinterest Pies, called Perfect Pie Crust (photo)

Today was going to be a busy day......thunderstorms are in the forecast starting Sunday night and every day until this next Wednesday. That meant with Sweet Magnolia having her baby soon and Willow already having her babies, we needed some more little sheds in the sheep pen. I wanted them to all be under cover because of the lightening that could be happening each day. 

Vitaliy was with and he was ready to start building. We have a lot of what I call hog panels and some plywood, so we could make two sheds real fast. 

A farm girls best friend!!!!!! Zip/ties.......they are one of my favorite things to use on our farm!!!!!!!

Another favorite is a drill!!!!!!

Ties are great for tying the fence to the plywood. We went through a bunch of them today! Speeds our work up!

We also like to use lots of baling twine. LOTS!!!!! It was neat today.......we were tying the twine and there was a feather hooked on. Not sure how it got there, but I love things like this.......just "simple"!

We made two of these. I am so thankful that we took the time to do this today. 

Later in the day we had to take the girls and babies over to get them sheared. Not the babies though. They went so they wouldn't get stressed. Getting the Mommas in the trailer was not easy. It took us a good halfhour. We were run around the pen quite a few times! 

We got over to the our friends farm around two. When we drove up this is what we saw. The sheep shearer brings his own little wooden trailer. It is really neat on the inside. I kind of stayed out of the way, but I did get a few pictures of the way he does things. This is the lead Ewe. With her being at the head of the shoot, the others will fall in line. She won't be here for long.

The whole family works together. The kids make it look so fun!

The children help by pushing the wool down into the wool burlap bag. Notice the steel ladder on the right hand side of the bag? Everything is so neat! 

I was able to buy 5 extra wool burlap bags. I can't wait to find things to use them for! 

It was time for Willow. It took two to hold on to her. Sweet man on the right. 

Willow had to sit on her backside! That is what the shearer has to do so they won't move. 

Then it was Olivia's turn. My sweet man was stroking her face to calm her down.

You can see what it looks like when the wool is sheared off.

Sweet Magnolia was not "goin' in there"! Do you see her front legs all stiff? She is one heavy girl and with baby or babies inside she is weighed a ton. Vitaliy and sweet man had their hands full!

Sweet Maggie is somewhere in that wool!

We loaded them back up and on the way back home we went.

The one good thing about the girls getting sheared was we could for sure see Sweet Maggies udder. She is ready and I bet this storm that is coming will help her go into labor. She is so pregnant!!!!!!

I kept my wool.........I can hardly wait to learn what to spin it......that will be down the road! My dream. I had to pay for getting them sheared. $4.00 a piece. I could not believe that it was that cheap. It was so interesting watching the process. V really liked watching everything also. I was glad the weather was nice, it would have been miserable had it not. 

I hope you enjoyed the day we had. I love having sheep, they have added so much to Prairie Flower Farm!

Hugs and God bless,

Linda