New chicks arrive, flooring continues, Finish it up Friday, garden update and what's for dinner.

 We got the call around 6 am that our new chicks had arrived.  I needed to get to the post office and knock on the back door.  I got there about 30 minutes later to pick up my box of new loud babies. I love baby chicks, who doesn't?  There new home was all ready. 

The moment they were free, they ran around and stretched their wings. The immediately found the food and water. They are only 3 days old.

I went out a few times today to make sure all was right. 

All are alive and doing well. 

The work on the floor continued today. There were a few snafus and difficult areas to deal with. 

The trim was too high. We tripped over it a couple of time when Dude decided enough. He pulled it up took off the bottom part.  That was much better and did the trick. 

 I worked in the garden, pulled weeds and watered trees.  Pumpkins are doing so well. 

And we have a cantaloupe just beginning to grow. 

Then it was time to finish up a few projects. 

I got the crow cross stitch done today. I have cross stitched in years and this was a small challenge. I have always used a hoop but halfway through I decided to work without it. Wow. I liked not using one and it made the work go faster.  After all these years of using a hoop... I should have tried this sooner.  Tomorrow I will mount it on a piece of sticky board.

I got both seatbelt covers completed. 

Then made whoopie pies. I used the recipe from America's Test Kitchen. They turned out perfect. 

Look at that cream filling.  It was a kachillion calories and I am surprised I am not in a sugar coma but it was very worth it to , at least, try them just once! 

Here is where Dude ended for the night...

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Front of the house before and after, laying floor, garden food, and cardmaking night

We are getting closer every day to finishing up the extreme remodel on the house. It was so bad inside that many people suggested that we just tear it down and begin again.  We kept working.  Here is a picture when we bought the house...

Here it is today. I still need to work on spreading out the rock out front. This is to help keep the moisture out of the crawl space. It is not easy!  We got a good rain tonight and heard there was a tornado spotted just west of us, so moving rock was not done tonight. 

But flooring was getting done.  Dude had gotten two rooms done in two days.  This was the start of it yesterday. 

We had to lock up all the animals last night due to coyotes in our back pasture. They were howling away.  I let them out early this morning after they cried for being fenced in a small area.

I pulled up an onion for dinner.  Such a beauty. 

I dehydrated more scallions today. There are still many more growing. 

I found a surprise zucchini  when picking cherry tomatoes today. 

Carrots are still doing well I pulled up a couple for the rest of the week.  They smell so good. 

Everything is a mess but the floor is getting done.  Next will be the walls. 

I did get a fall theme going on the tier trays. A little porcupine is on the top tier. 

The dining room and one of the living room sides has floor laid for the night. 9pm and Dude is calling it a night. More floor will be done tomorrow. He says it is a quick and easy job.

Dude also cut and laid the subflooring underlayment today before laying the dining room. 

I made dinner for us, cleaned up the dishes while Dude continued on the floor.  Then I head off to make cards with friends.  Here is what we made tonight.

That's it.  Hope you have found some inspiration from us to work into your life or at the least, enjoyed browsing. 

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Quick update ... summer, garden meals and a quick Halloween craft

It was hot today. If it wasn't, at least, 100*, it was close.  It is 6:30pm and still 96*.  I am not complaining. I love summer (just not as much as fall or winter ...smile).  I saw today in the state of North Carolina where I grew up they had storms and high winds. 

But this IS summer.  Hot.... hazy.... green... watering... here is a look out our back gate where the sheep roam. 

Norman didn't want to go to far due to the heat and after this ran back to the house and sat at the back door. 

I spent most of the day cleaning indoors and running errands … library and a couple of stores, to say cool. 

I planted some of the cherry seeds from all the canning to see if anything will come up. 

We are thankful for all the eating we doing from he garden. Breakfast was a skillet of zucchini, tomatoes and scallions. 

It was so delightful. 

Dinner was a garden salad and 3 cheese grilled cheese on this lovely peasant bread. 

I dried a small amount of herbs this morning. 

And some scallions I picked the other day. I will do more of these this week. I will snip them after they are dried and jar them up. It is just easier that way.

I did do one quick craft to get into the upcoming seasons...

I had a small tub, some clear ornaments, a Dollar Store 18" skeleton and some leftover stuffing.

I did sprinkle a tiny bit of translucent glitter. Yep, it's in my bathroom. The ship in the bottle next to it my father made many years ago.

Every so often our library thins out their supply of books. I snagged this one for my grandson...grin.

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