Feeding, desilting, shirting shopping......

Daylight savings means more work.....thats why I hate it you end up inside too late.............when I got home from my full day of town work I went and did some farm work with Mr Chooky.............

The cows heard the truck start at the house so some were already at the gate waiting for us...........the others were coming from way out in the middle of the paddock..........

See in the middle of this photo the dust goes way back..........

come on hurry up and feed us............

We had to get some more hay yesterday............

it's becoming harder to get and more expensive..........I organised this before the price went up...........others are finally getting dry like we have been for ages.........hello we've been trying to tell you it was dry.......

actually it's definitely drought now but the government in NSW doesn't want to use this word.....idiots is all I can say.........

Drought is drought.............

It an insult to not even acknowledge it...........

I was driving the truck...........this is very scary............I don't drive the truck......2nd time ever......its just got a new windscreen so I took some pics thru it since it was so clean............

this dam is very low for it..............it has a great catch so fills very easy...........mind you i'm thinking the cows have gone off drinking this water which happened once before when it was very dry.............

we might have to move them paddocks.......not that any others have much water either.............the windmill has been causing us grief..............we had to pull it up the other day..........replace some buckets and put it back down................but the wind has been so unreliable lately we barely have enough water to shower in at the house........let alone wash......this system will be changed hopefully in the next week or so...........its another big expense but a permanent fix  and moving from wind power to solar power..........we cannot keep animals without water............and most of the dams here are dry...........it's only that the house dam is huge and we pump that water around the paddocks on the farm........BUT it does not go everywhere............

Since there is talk of rain after feeding we went desilting..........

this dam fills easy from some road drains helping it...........

there is a big metal scoop in the middle of the photo on this side of the dam.........once we start it ends up in the dam......

I was in the little tractor way out on the left top of this photo..........

its stinky and horrible..........there's a remains of a dead cow near the dam and a few dead sheep.........they all still stink..........so not glamorous............

there is about 1 metre of sloppy mud in here that we can pull out and it will hold more water.............

this was my view for the afternoon/evening...........I did get to watch a gorgeous huge moon rise thru the trees.........it was my payment for work........I took a pic but it didn't turn out to well.......

Still got lots to do here............

My little video today was a little dark but I pull the scoop into the dam and Mr Chooky was on a tractor on the other side and pulls the scoop full of mud out and me back wards....the big chain and wire ropes connect everything.......it gets very dusty as you keep going back and forwards on the same area...........

you end up with sore back and neck as lots of twisting and looking back.........

No matter how dry it is here the old cedar trees are putting on a beautiful display............

Onto the good stuff...........Shiralee Stitches puts great stuff together.............

I needed some more shirtings for Lucy 2.........I sent a pic of what I had and she added these 3 pieces...........a free pattern Little Charmers...........

I loved this Lucy block and got it also........

other essentials bottomline threads and glue............

I got some more kits for these pincushions when there were on special

and the papers on the bottom are the next big EPP project...........yes yes I know what your saying stop right there girl and get the the others finished but I have been thinking about this one for a few months and Sandy had the papers that I needed so i got her to send them...........this weekend I want to get block one done..............

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thanks for all your comments on Boy Wonder.......he's home and resting to let his leg heal.......always a worry until things are all fixed up...........keeping him slow enough for long enough will now be the challenge so it can heal..........

Catch you later.....

Chookyblue.......

Please vote

Please choose your favourite...........

i can't decide..........

A,B,C or D 

A

B

C

D

This was the block cut from the one piece of fabric..........

Catch you later.......

Chookyblue......

Crazy.....

What's a girl to do when they forecast record heat for Sept and strong winds..........

head to the middle of no where and enjoy the day at picnic races..............

38 deg (over 100) and dust blowing everywhere.............

lost all my money but we we had fun..........

Did you do something dumb and crazy yesterday in the heat????

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playing with Lucy2.......i've been talking about her for some time now.......around I love making the feature blocks of Lucy Bostons quilt Patchwork of the Crosses but I don't think I love it that much to make a full on second quilt..........but I am working on my own quicker idea...........

today I was trying to nut out my idea I have in my head..........

the blocks on the right and top are not the correct size backgrounds...........I was hoping to use a 10in layer cake that I had but they are not big enough........also testing out a couple of sizes on the crosses.......the bigger ones are winning......and all will be fussy cut.......

not sure if I want a plainer background or even another colour but this one was a bigger piece to try the idea on.......

and looking at this photo the stripey background second one down on the left will not be staying in there.......I wasn't keen on it but used it now playing as it was the right colour.............

What do you think of Lucy2???

Catch you later......

Chookyblue.....

Lucy love.....

Yes more Lucy...............no time to sew at home but in the car travelling or waiting for appointments etc...........

the green is looking a little weird in the photo..........not sure why.......

The block below is the other option shown above...........but after a few texts to friends one husband replied finally and the block below was the chosen one............I liked both and could not decide.........

Here they all are together..........
the ones i've got done recently.............
back to more gluing..........
It amazes me when you see them together what the feature is.........
+ or X cross.....

love my new mug........great size too.........

just perfect for me.............

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have a good weekend.......it's going to be 38 and windy here on the weekend......what a shock to the body that will be........... 

Catch you later.......

Chookyblue.....

Lucy and flowers......

nothing much to say other then 10 hrs in a car as passenger you can get a fair bit of sewing done.......so once I had the cream on the other block in my last post I started sewing some new blocks............

I think it takes about 3 hours to sew this together..............anyone else timed how long this takes to sew together........just the sewing............have not included the cutting and gluing..............

some flowers along the way...........

this one looks prettier then in this photo........

these are all from Shiralee Stitches..........the ones I prepped last month........

these will be in Lucy2

this one now just needs it's next set of red pairs added on.............

Could have nearly got it finished but fingers were getting sore from stitching and after 4.5hrs with a 10 min break I had had enough.....

my tally for Lucy is over 50 blocks now............

never to late to start a Lucy.........

Are you doing Lucy????

How are you going with your blocks and quilt????

Catch you later......

Chookyblue......

Lucy prep......

Yesterday was a great day..............

I forgot on the weekend I was going to be home yesterday morning.............

It's one day at a time here some days..............

Anyway yesterday I had a supervise an exam for Boy Wonder..........

It had to be a quiet task, not too distracting and near him to supervise.......

YES YES I can hear you.......Lucy was calling........

So I sat and preped some Lucy...........all the unprepared ones in the tin from Sandy..........

I cut the non fussy backgrounds and traced out all the fussy blocks...........

I got the 4 that were not done to this point...............

pretty happy with that.......

then I had 2 cut in the tin ready for papers so I got them glued too.............

sometimes the fussy gluing is the worst part...........trying to get it perfect on the paper because if it is glued well it sews well.............

then one of my besties arrived for the night.........

she'll be back again Fri and Sat nights too.......

Catch you later.....

Chookyblue..... 

Lucy.......

Well these blocks are not really showing Lucy progress and stitching time for me at the moment....... It's just I finally got time to take a photo of the blocks...... 

One got finished in June and the other July........ 

Today is my first day at home in about 6 weeks and the house sure is showing that......

But I have found my way to the Chookshed and I vacuumed some bugs up...... Not sure how but they find there way in......

I had some cream strips in the house for backgrounds and brought them back out to the Chookshed and finally cut some..........I had run out of pieces to join in my sewing tin.... It needed a massive restock.......

I've been in and out all day catching up on heaps of washing...... Slowly putting things away......

Wished I could find a cleaner........ Just one every month or two would be great...... 

The boys ran away and avoided 'pettycoat government' aka house cleaning....... So I got slack with what I have achieved to.... Still in my pjs and about to go have a shower and change into clean pjs.....it's been nice to bum around all day......

I'll finish with the pile of Lucy blocks...... 

These two will probably go into Lucy 2 but for now they look good on the stack....... 

I've lost count on blocks but maybe these bring the tally to 48?

WOOOPPPPPPPSSSSS

I then went looking for my other Lucy stash.........

4 hrs later I am finishing the post...........

So I have 6 of Sandy's blocks in here.............2 cut and 4 to cut............

so that makes the pieced total 42 I think instead............

AND there are another 7 cut in the tin too.......

I have said I have a problem..........My Friend Lucy is an addiction............

I think these came from The Quilters Angel..........

yes they are for fussy cutting more Lucy blocks.............

And these ones were just because I like the blue and green and they are fat 1/4's............not sure of the range does anyone know............

Anyway........must go to bed soon........

hope you had a good weekend.......

Catch you later..........

Chookyblue.......

Life.............

Life is whirl wind...........good but OMG busy..........

so much fun catching up with Susan@Oh2Sew and Maree@Stitched Australia, Fiona@BubzRugz and Kris@TagAlongTeddies.........

The food is always great at the Park House Cafe...........

After food and chatting we went and checked out some patchwork shops.............

This is the range I got for a friends 50th birthday quilt.........

Combined with grey (first time ever for me) should look "blokey" enough I hope...........

Car pooling......

Few more bits.........sashiko, possible Lucy fabrics...........all paid for and waiting for the girls and..........

I found these beauties...........OMG fussy cutting heaven.........I got all 3 colourways as I could not decide what I loved the most........probably Lucy2 but maybe Lucy...........in all honesty probably got enough fabrics for 3 Lucys.........but I am not going there..........

To say the fog was thick was an understatement................when I arrived it was so thick it was difficult to find my way around.........it lifted but by the time I came out just after dark it was settling back in..........looks cool in the lights but hard to drive in when it got thicker.........

So impressed to see so many young people doing Relay for Life............we didn't stay all night as not prepared enough but the girls walked the whole time they were there bar about 15mins when they ate dinner...........

Fairy Girl was playing with the new camera..........LOVE this photo..........

Rainbow on my way home.............

cool clouds.........

Catching the last light.........

so surprised this turned out so well...........it was almost dark.........

Now for a few restful quiet days as the sore throat that's been hanging around for weeks now is NOT getting better and i've had another trip to the Drs........

Me and the lounge are going to be besties for a few days........

Catch you later.......

Chookyblue.........

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