Life is too short

The other day, it was pretty hot here in my part of the world...  My Son is a farm/rancher through and through, he has is own collection of John Deere Tractors that he has now decided that he wants them outside to play in the sand box.  Well we have one rule, if it is outside, it has to come in Clean - NO SAND - as house cleaning i am not so every little bit helps keep it clean.

Anyways, these pictures are of my son, cleaning his toys and watering my trees and such, no point in wasting water.

****note is dress code - Western Shirt, Underwear, Rubber Boots ****

As Always

Shauna

Back on the machine again

So I have been having issues with my pressing for sometime, my friends told me it is all in the Iron and such...Well I finally purchased a new iron for myself... Today was the first day that I have tried it and WOW they were right... An iron makes a huge difference...

I have been behind in my Australia block swap - last block that I made was March and we are just getting into August...

So today, I made August Block - this was the very first one that I have not had to make my way to the quilt shop for the fabric.  I was so excited about that,  I really hope the Julie likes her block.

April and May I had to go out and get the fabric... Today was the day that I made the blocks that I was behind in.  Until just a few mintues ago... I forgot all about June - So will be looking in my stash for some Brights.  July wanted Grandmother's Fan - well I had to email her and ask for a different block as I have not done circles of any kind and just really starting the applique part of quilting and not great at it...

Below are my blocks that I have made for my swap partner's - I really hope that they like them.

Julie's Block - August

Melody's Block - May

Leanne's Block - April

As Always Shauna,

Where has the time gone?!

Wow, ok I have been very busy again... This summer seems to be going by in a blink.
In the beginning of July, in Calgary we have the Calgary Stampede and Exhibition that runs 10 days.  It is know around the world as the Greatest Outdoor Show.  It is a Rodeo, Chuck Wagons, Midway (games and rides), and Agricultural - which is a steer show, sheep trials, big horses (Clydesdale) variety of things to do.  This year was a little more special as the Royals came Canada and Calgary.  So that was pretty big.

On Wednesday was my Club night - Girls Gang - this is the one that I am making my Coxcomb, well I have fallen off the quilting and I am behind on this as well as my block swaps.  I have all the fabric for my swaps it is just getting everything pieced together and sent my partners.

Has anyone out there not been quilting?  I feel like it is just me not quilting, I really should cut my fabric for the Coxcomb but I really don't feel like that either.  I have so many projects on the go but I have not started some and I don't know if I will be working on them...

Well I just thought that I would drop a line and let you know that I am still here, and trying to quilt but nothing really is happening, I think that this will be happening soon, as it has been raining here for a couple of days so there is not much I can do but quilt and clean.

To my swap partners your blocks will becoming shortly, will send you line once I put this in the mail.

Where has the time GONE!

This last month has been stupid crazy.  We ended May with 4-H on parade which my son just loves going every year.  Then June was here and our Branding came and went with no major hiccups.  Then we got our cows all moved to pasture and finally got the bulls out with them.  I have been attached to my Hubby's hip lately and I am not sure that he is really enjoying it all that much.  We have gone and put the bulls out and then the other day we made a day trip to deliver a bull that we sold and went to Claresholm to see his horse that is at horse school.  The next day started at 7:30 am with a phone call that our cows are out in the neighbours crop OOPPPPS!!!!!!!!!!  We got the fence fixed and the cows out with the help of the neighbour.  I am glad that they were there as it would have taken hubby and I a long time with their help we were out in under 1 hour, which was great 3 guys working on one fence makes the time go by fast.  Then we went and spent the remaining of the day was checking the cows and salting them.

With all the hip attachment going on, my yard and house are falling to the waist side, but today is the day that I am going to try and get everything organized and put back in place.  As I am leaving for a few days of holidays will my hubby stays and looks after things.

Now for some other news about what is going on in Blog Land - my good friend over at QUILT I.T. is celebrating her 1 year anniversary and has some goodies that she is giving away to celebrate.  here is the link to her site http://sylvsquilting.blogspot.com/

I hope that you all have an amazing weekend as it is the long weekend here to celebrate CANADA DAY and a few of my friends are going to the states to celebrate both.  So where every this weekend finds you I hope that you have a safe and wonderful time.

4-H on Parade

At the end of May our 4-H club (Irricana Beef & Multi Club) goes in to Calgary to sell their projects.  Roy just loves going down there and spending time with the animals.  Here are a few pictures of our day at the Stampede Grounds prior to the boys & girls selling their projects.  Yes this is a very hard day for the kids and some of the parents as well but you know they come back for another year of this.  The money that the get from selling their projects go towards paying the bills for purchasing, feeding their projects and usually the remainder goes into the bank for school down the road.

Here is a new steer that we purchased for Steer Classic which is during the Calgary Stampede - his name is Mic Blue and we purchased him from Maddy Sibbald

I am still wondering what in the heck happened to May!!!  I have been keeping myself rather busy with these last couple of weeks.  Roy finished his first year of Preschool with a carnival that we put on for the kids that completed a successful year.  Roy due to his age will be going back into preschool in September.

Roy - getting his certificate for finishing a year of preschool

Getting his face painted

My cheetah

Well school is done that is all that I can say, now we have to finish so lets get to playing.

Tyrrell Museum II

As I mentioned in earlier post about my son's first field trip.  Well from what my sister told me he has a blast.  I took him to Tyrrell in the summer and he was really not that interested in the place so we headed to the Gazoo for a little fun.

Well this is a lot of photos for his blog today, I hope that you enjoy Roy's adventure to the Tyrrell Museum.

Only 1 Meter High - wow very small to the bone

weighing in only between a coyote and a beaver

being his usual goof ball

Now the class heads to Reptile World - oh what fun they will have

out comes the SNAKE

Roy going in for the pet!



Not really sure what to think



You want me to do WHAT!!!

OK OK I will

And that ends our field trip to the Tyrrell Museum and Reptile World.