Prayer & Surgery

*UPDATE*

Dad came out of surgery doing great.  Thank you for all the kind

words and prayers.  They are appreciated!!  If all goes well, they

will send him home Sunday. 

My sweet and awesome daddy will have a knee replacement tomorrow.

It's L*O*N*G overdue.  Please pray for a smooth surgery and recovery. 

He is not the best patient...he is a farmer.  He thinks that things will

never get done if he's down. ha ha

He has put this off too long.  But, because of the very dry summer

last year, he put it off, he started hauling water to his cattle around Easter

last year and didn't quit until Fall. 

I trust that God will bring him thru easily...as I've prayed for God to hand pick each nurse and anyone else that will be in contact with dad.

Happy Leap Year Day Friends!

Wordless Wednesday-with words

We had snow about 10 days ago.

It was nearly 70 today.

It's that time of year again.

Farm Consignment Sale

This Saturday

This is 3 years ago.  The sale has grown alot!  I'm Thankful. Busy. Good.

Have a wonderful rest of the week!

Easy Supper

This is an easy one skillet meal.  I bought a deli chicken from Dillons for $3.63, it was marked down because the deli was about to close for the day.  Onion(we eat onion in everything) and 2 cups of brown rice I had cooked up earlier.  Put a little EVOO in the skillet, throw in the rice, onion, chop up the chicken, season with garlic powder, pepper and cajun seasoning, fry up until golden brown. 

Ta Da!

My guys {love} chocolate chip cookies.

I have made many other kinds of cookies and they will eat them.

But they always say"we really love chocolate chip"

I have a lot of cookbooks.  I really enjoy reading them all.

I have tried a lot of different recipes for chocolate chip cookies.

The all time favorite comes from this cookbook.

This was a gift from a previous employer about 12 yrs ago.

Neat cookbook.

These little jewels never fail me.  They are always DELISH.  I think I could make them in my sleep!

My guys are always {happy} when they see these come out of the oven.

Wordless Wednesday

Seems to be all I have time for right now...wordless wednesday's...
Up to my ears in Bull Sales, Land Auctions and Farm Equipment Sale~not complaining, very thankful for business...but I don't have a lot of time for blogging!

Sewing Project

First, I want to establish that I am NOT a seamstress.  I learned to sew in high school.  My grandma's were sewing queens.  My mom didn't sew.  When we were expecting ZB, the first born, I decided I would make a quilt, curtain and bumper pad.  With my link to the "auction" service...I picked up a old sewing machine for $10 bucks..I think(it's been a few years ago!)  I enjoy SIMPLE projects.

This is my simple project.

The mutt, Angel, really enjoys coming in of an evening.

She lays around in the living room while we are hanging out

watching tv.  She is an outside dog, but likes to be in.

I decided to make her a dog bed. 

Made with stuff I already had.  Even better.

I used an old mattress pad, ZB got a new one.

Cut the elastic off, folded it into fourths.  Sewed the edges.

The denim.  It is from my $5 queen size bed skirt I purchased about 11 yrs ago.

I took the gathers out.  Cut them into even strips.  Sewed them up.

Stuffed the mattress pad inside.

Viola!

It's working out.  She is all about a soft place to lie down!

I took this tonite.  It's still snowing.  It's a little blurry

I was lazy and took it thru the kitchen window!

Wordless Wednesday

My evening walk

I actually got home at a decent time tonite.

About 530ish.

I changed my shoes, grabbed my camera and told

the boys I was going to the pond.  They didn't want to go.

This is at the gate to the pasture.

As I walked along...totally enjoying my walk

I saw this hedge ball and it reminded me of PacMan.

{grin}

When I got to the pond.  I saw these beautiful ducks.

The colors were gorgeous!  They soon scattered.

I wasn't quiet enough.

I thought this was a cool reflection shot.

On my way back, the sun was setting and beautiful.

Hedge row makes an interesting shot.

Miss Angel was there to greet me as I got back into the yard.

When I got to the driveway...this is what I saw.

Enjoying this beautiful weather.

Have a wonderful evening friends.

Wordless Wednesday