Cooking an entire meal on the grill

Yep I really do cook the entire meal for 7 people on the grill! Tonight its italian herbed chicken (durkee marinate pack), home canned green beans & home grown italian herbed potatoes.  Bryces dad cooked broccolli and cauliflower from the garden in the steamer, I added cheese at the picnic table so technically thats not cooked inside my house *big grins*

Morel mushrooms

Well I haven't gotten much computer time but Bryce surprised me and took me mushroom hunting.  This is what we got, looked like someone had already been picking in that spot and just left us a few.

Chicken or parrot?

Bryce playing with one of the roosters... This one likes to play pretend parrot!  The little guy follows him like a puppy until Bryce will stop and pick him up and talk for a while.

Life as a farm wife

I'm always amazed at how fast everyones quilt tops go together. I usually have to steal quilty sewing time and still have interruptions of a farm wife constantly. Today was a perfect example.

"MOM the chicken is running away. Mom replies WHAT? Why did you have the chicken out? Daughter replies because it looked lonely".

Well I'm not sure HOW it can be lonely with 100 brothers & sisters to play with (total of 225 in 2 chicken houses). Daughter is still mad at the dog for chasing the chicken. Dog is mad at me for scolding it & chicken looks like its ready to have a stroke! It was a broiler chicken to they are super fat, it was funny to watch it try to run lol. We will be butchering the 50 broilers in about 2 weeks, didn't want him dead just yet & definitely NOT dogfood.

On a brighter note, Bryce & Katelyn (DD16) had dinner ready & waiting when I got home from the neuro today. That is a big treat for me. Brittany(DD14) is trying to avoid dishes as we speak.

Looks like I'm headed to a MS (multiple sclerosis) clinic in springfield IL, have any favorite fabric stores that I should visit there or south of there? I had a bad flare up about 5 months ago but am feeling ok now so I argued with the neuro about why I didn't think it was needed. The Dr & Bryce won out, now to wait for the referral process & an appointment date.

On a brighter note the vitamin d supplement (50,000mg/wk) is making me feel a lot better & I'm getting a lot of decluttering & sewing done!

Off to play with the vintage sheets (cough cough...fabric for summer dresses) I found in the closet. 

Spring is Coming

Well it's almost the first of March and the guys are working around the farm installing a new wood stove.  Our old one was second hand and was originally purchased in 1978, it only sat unused for 8 years so it really had a long hard life.  They also plan on working on the new chicken brooder so we will be ready when the next 50 roasters are ready to go.

I'm working on setting my blog up and making sure I have saved all of my February block of the month patterns before they disappear!