This is part two of our family craft night. The interior 20 sided “ball” is complete and we now will add all the points! Three half size straws will now be tied to the small quarter size triangles. As you can see, Reagan’s pink straws are being tied to the green. Parental help was very…
Category: The Creative Side
Family Craft
I decided I’d do a family craft over Thanksgiving. I knew it would be a challenge, but I figured they could do it with some help. The kids would have to make many triangles… easy enough… and tie knots with thread… therein lay the challenge. My prediction was sooooo right. It MAY have been a…
Birthday Gift
We worked our heifers today and I’ll share the photos from today soon, but I did want to show off for a bit. November is a month full of birthdays for this family and I made one for my sister that I liked. Anyone out there remember macrame? Well, when we adventured over to Born…
Concrete Day
Holy moly. I don’t think I’ve been this sore in a long time. While I initially helped spread the concrete, I soon switched to finishing. Troweling. Running the bull float. Edging. Once my sidewalk was done, they poured three pads for water troughs. Then they moved to Brandon and Megan’s house for a sidewalk and…
On My List
I came home from my town trip on Monday to this! I’ve lived in this house since 2010. This has been on my list ever since. This sidewalk has been a pain in the winter. Below the grass level, it often was a skating rink. It was safer to walk in the snow and grass…
Testing, Testing
My sister makes many food items from her garden produce. She makes mead and wine and salsa and frozen vegetables. She dehydrates. She cans. She makes fruit leather and jelly. I think most of all though, she loves to ferment food. I had to taste fermented salsa last time I visited! Today I joined in…
Yay for Organization
It began to sprinkle last night. Our morning was cool and pleasant after the 90 degree heat of a few days ago. Then, the rain began. As I sit here typing, we’ve been blessed with 1.38”! That’s quite a bit of rain for Wyoming! It continues to pour and the week is forecasted to be…
Tie Dye Double Duty
In between the rain storms the guys continue to work on projects… so strange to be a week into August and throw a light blanket on at night or sweatshirts during the day! The cool weather is supposed to stop tomorrow and the guys are anxious to get going on the second cutting of hay….
Wedding Present
I can share one of my latest alcohol ink creations now since the wedding is over… Congrats to A. and W.! This set of pitcher and salad bowl are decorated with the colors of a high plains summer… I know they’ve spent hours riding horses through the bunch grasses and yarrow I painted on these……
Why Do I Garden in Wyoming?
There’s a smell to it… a smidge of ozone from the lightning, an icy coldness, a mown grass scent multiplied with different leaf and stem scents, wet earth, and muddy water. This morning was spent finishing a new flower bed and planting some last few tomatoes. This is the before photo. Note the gorgeous basket…
Poppies and Cornflowers
The idea of time lapse photography of the clouds and storms rolling in didn’t work today, as about 5 am, lightning and thunder started popping and the rain descended. All day it has rained off and on, giving us half an inch of moisture. It’s lifted and returned and come in waves and disappeared. I’m…
Braiding in the Rain
I had all five grandkids today while the crew finished up AI-ing the heifers. I did have some outdoor plans they were going to help with, but I woke to the wonderful sound of rain dripping off the roof. It continued to drizzle most of the day which kept us all inside except for a…