This and That

A quick update on what’s been going on lately.

A few weeks back, a family who has a lot of land, hosted a “Pioneer Weekend”. You could camp out in their woods, (seriously rough it), cook out over a campfire, and do activities with the kids. We didn’t camp out, but just went for a few hours one day. It was a very busy week and weekend for us.

Anyway…so here’s a few pics of Glorianna being a pioneer. I didn’t get any pictures of the boys…I forgot the camera and had to use my phone. The boys were mostly off doing archery, while I hung out with Glorianna.

Here she is making butter….This was really good. Heaving whipping cream is all you need. We tried this again later on my old butter churn that I have at home. It was really good then too. But a lot more messy.

and trying to saw a log…

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In other news…

We’ve had a lot of rain come through lately. The weather has dropped some, even tho we still have really nice days considering its September and October. Anyway…we decided to close the pool about mid September. Its been getting colder at night, so the water is too cold to swim in anyway. About a week after we closed it, we had a huge rain storm come through. We had several inches of rain accumulate over the weekend. Apparently it was too much for our pool. The cover got filled with water, applied a lot of pressure to the frame and snap…that’s the end of our pool. It split right down the side.

So now we have to decide if we want to get a new one for next summer, or if we want to flatten the deck and have a nice big yard. I’m all for the nice big yard…but I’m just slightly outnumbered. So we’ll see…

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In still other news…my sewing has slowed down a lot. I just don’t have much time right now and I’ve still got a lot of inventory that has accumulated over the last year…so I’m trying to thin that out and only do custom orders. But occasionally I do get creative and try something new. My latest project was trying to make shrugs. I love shrugs. So I found several tutorials online on how to turn old shirts into shrugs and figured i’d give it a try. I found this long sleeved v neck shirt at the good will for $1 and that became my first attempt.

I forgot to take a before picture…but here’s the after…

Ta Ta For Now!