Little Sewing, Big Egg

There were only two blocks that I didn't take apart when I stopped sewing and yesterday I made two more to match them. The plan I have is to make a small wall hanging for the green room. I still want to make Kristine a quilt, but I will do this first and hopefully I'll be able to get back into the swing of quilt making. I feel like I'm sneaking the sewing past my migraines. I'll just play it cool and they won't notice. 

I'm going to make up some artsy asian looking type wall hanging...

maybe even two? I think I will go for colors ahead of design. 

Itunes and I have been having a lot of fun lately since I have found Itunes U and I have been listening to class lectures from Stanford, Berkeley, and other universities. Some of the classes have video, but I even like listening to the sans-video lectures while I do other things. It is pretty neat listening to lectures by Pulitzer winning professors. You can learn great stuff!

Today there was such a difference in the sizes of these two eggs that I had to take a photo. In fact for some reason they seem to have more of a size difference in real life than in the photo. The small egg is a Cochin egg, but I'm not sure if the large egg is an Orpington or a Brahma egg. I think it is probably an Orpington egg because they are supposed to be medium to large while the Brahma eggs are listed as medium. 

There was only one egg laid in the open nest boxes today.

[10 eggs today]

Smiles

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Feeling Better!

I didn't want to over do my first day of feeling Ok

so I started out collecting eggs.

Then I went out to get my gloves

and found that I had left them under a leak in the shed

so I put them in the sun to dry.

I took a photo because

they are the neatest gloves.

Knit on top so my hands don't get sweaty

and laytex or something on the palms and fingers.

Picked up mostly dry leaves

and put them in the pen

because the pen was getting too muddy.

Then I went over and raked up some

leaves and twigs and stuff

off of the driveway.

Checked back with the chickens

and filled the feeders and cleaned the nest boxes.

Morgan wants her chickens out of the coop

because she wants them all together.

But there are some late layers.

This little girl is telling me to go away.

And these three girls all want to lay their egg

in the same nest area.

Go figure?

There are lots of places for them to lay

but there seem to be favorite spots

that they compete over.

Silly chickens.

Smiles

Dirty Dozen

I'll blame the fact that this post

is backwards on the migraine

I got last night.

At least I can see today,

but I am reduced to just doing

mundane things, like

collecting eggs and getting wood for the wood stove.

The photo above shows the eggs

finishing drying.

I then use a pencil and date each egg

and place them in the container,

cover and put them in the refrigerator.

Here the eggs

are getting dried off

after their cold water wash.

I put the eggs on the vent 

to finish drying.

Oh yes, and here

are the muddy eggs

just in from the chicken coop

waiting for their trip to the sink.

I collected eight eggs

and went out later and found this one

to make up the nine eggs you see above.

[there were already 3 eggs in the container]

The post would have made a lot more sense

if I had managed to put the photos in the reverse order. 

Smiles