Pre Fair Day Lunch with the Girls...

They serve lunch at the Pre Fair but Judy (on the left) was in town so I went to Panera Bread to have lunch with the Girls. Betty is on the right. Judy use to live in Cape but moved to Springfield to be by her Mom, Sister, and DD.

Maxine on the left. We are all quilters.

This is Betty. She and I belong to the Perryville Quilt Guild and the Cape Guild.

Caroline is on the right and Mary K is on the left. That group, of 6 have a cabin at the lake when the Cape Guild has there retreat in March. I'm in another cabin with 5 lovely women.

A Day at Pre Fair....

Adam getting ready to show his heifer. Both boys took a heifer and steer. You City folks might night know what they are but just ask me and I will explaine.

Brandon getting his heifer ready.

Adam in the show ring with his steer.

The judge taking the time to tell Adam he is going to place his steer in Second place. Adam said "No Way" to the judge. But the judge did say his steer may take the Grand place at the Fair with a little more on his ribs. But he does have a nice rump.

Brandon showing his steer and he came in Second place too. The first place was a friend and the judge was right on that one.

After the show my Son gave a talk to the 4H kids and parents on getting your beef animal ready for the Fair. He did a great job.

Master Chef is in the house....

Yes, Brandon is in. He made a 2 fried egg sandwich on toasted raisin bread with butter and cinnamon. He said it was great. Then after that we were off to check the cow's. Master Chef/Rancher.

We had two born last night and early morning. Brandon is putting a tag in this ones ear. Mommy wasn't too happy about the whole deal. She let out a load Mo and half the heard came to see what was wrong. It is a bull calf. I could of showed you a different picture, calf between his legs and a nice butt crack, but I'm trying to keep this blog PG. I think you get the picture. You have to put the calf between your legs to hold it still, so you can use both hands. Unless you have a friend who can help you. But Grandma wasn't getting out of the pumpkin. Not the way that Mom cow was looking at us.

This one didn't get an ear tag. Mom is not to friendly and very protected. As you can see I took the picture threw the glass.

This one was born about a week ago.

Great day in small town...

Once a year Friends and neighbors in Friedheim (just up the road) have a day of activities, which include a tractor ride, live music and a dinner. There is no charge for anything but they ask for a donations to help with medical bills and physical therapy for Friedheim resident, David Seabaugh, who was injured in a farm accident earlier this year. This is a picture of Brandon and Cooper waiting for the tractors to come by our ranch and they will join in.

Here they come.

We are watching from Steve & Tammy's drive way. Steve even put up a tent for some shade.

That is Mr. Seabaugh in the wagon.

This is Adam on his tractor. I didn't get a picture of Caleb on his tractor. When the last tractor passed the boys were ready to join in.

They had a silent auction for some items and I won this quilt. It is so nice. We stayed till about 9:30. Cooper went home early because he danced up a storm. He loved the music.

What a week-end...

Yes that's me with Tim Holtz. Went to Kansas on Fri. and had a class with Tim on Sat. It was a great class. It was a Patchwork class. He is holding the work in the picture below. Mine isn't finished yet because my do dad's got in one of the other girls bags. So I will have to find something else to work on. I think I have a quilt to finish. We had a great time. Did some shopping and eating out some great places.

The second post for today....

This quilt is Amy Butler fabric and the pattern is called Just Can't Cut It. Great and easy pattern for big design fabric.

Took a workshop yesterday with the River Heritage Quilt Guild of Cape. It is called Cane Weaving Wall Hanging. Size is 26" x 32". Had fun and a great lunch. This is a great guild. Lots of hard working people in this guild.

Last night was our Guild meeting in Cape and this is our Opportunity Quilt. I made 3 of the bloks. It is 84" X 96". Wonderful quilt. We will draw at the November Meeting. Let me know if you want a chance to win this wonderful quilt.

Long time no blog....

I have been busy. This was Chris graduation in Milwaukee from MSOE on May 28, 2011. Came home for two weeks and will go to work in Milwaukee. The first picture is Chris ready to go up and second picture is Chris crossing the stage.

On May 27, we had to put Sugar out. She was getting bad. We don't know for sure what it was, heart or lungs. It was so hard for me to let her go. She has loved me for 7 years. She would of been 12 years old on July 5. I was very lucky to have her as my dog.

Then on June 4th Greg bring 4 Turkey eggs that the tracktor ran over and no Mom to be found. We went to Caleb's graduation party in St. Louis and got home late that night. I weent to get the bag of eggs out of the car and they had hatched. There were 4 wild turkeys running around the car. We lost one but we put the three in a box and started to feed them.

This is the same 3 on June 15. They are growing. There wings are getting real big. We are going to take them to a man who can raise wild animals. He has raised eagles,deers and etc. I just want them to go back into the wild.