A TO-DO LIST FOR SANETHA'S COUNTRY LANE

 

 1. Weed eat garden.

2. Mow

3. Sweep/clean garage.

4. Rake front yard.

5. Buy chicken feed.

6. Chop up 2 trees for firewood.

7. Power spray siding.

8. Get fans to animals.

9. Tear down old chicken pen.

10. Paint chairs.

11. Stain house.

12. Fairy garden.

13. Paint old chicken coop.

14. Mow

15. Power wash inside of alpaca shed.

16. I think I already mentioned Mow.

17. Pick up the trash that used to be a horse shed.

18. Mow.

19. Burn lagoon.

20. Fix sagging fence.

21. Clean house.

22. Work on quilts.

I started this to-do list back in the spring.  I've gotten a few things done.  Still so much to do!  I get a little overwhelmed. Weed eating,  mowing, cleaning house  never go away.  When I get done mowing its time to start over. 

 





Fairy Garden 2014

Our fairies love to play on the beach with our dog "Rocky" and our kitty "Trapper" and the alpaca.  A little inspirational incentives are scattered around. The lights are always on in the fairy castle.  Can you see the fairy hiding in the bushes watching the activities? 

 Our back yard.  This is an old shack from the hospital  I work at, that we converted to a chicken coup.   But I won't have anymore chickens (really!).  So I am thinking about new things to do with the "shack". 

 

We had a trench excavated around the east side of the house.  This dirt pile was left over.  I would like it gone, but it is still there.  The flags are positioned perfectly so my husband can see them from his chair in the living room.

 

Fun Day at Silver Dollar City!!!



Mowing on Sweet Grass ranch



At the MOPACA alpaca show in Kansas City.

"Jacob" with his

BLUE RIBBON!!

His fleece was appreciated and the judge said Jacob was the "total package" .

He has wonderful crimpy, thick, fine fleece.

The best thing is that he is white and his fleece can be spun and dyed into any color in the rainbow.

Whereas if you have brown fleece, you have brown yarn.

If you have black fleece, you have black yarn.

If you have gray fleece, you have gray yarn.

White fleece can be anything!!!



Halter training alpacas is like potty training a toddler. 
If they throw themselves on the ground and refuse to get up you pretend to smile and take a picture.

Sometimes I pretend to be organized. 

 Like when I stack. 

 

 

It is faux organization. 

 

Faux prepared.

 

Faux organized stack of trimmer string.

 

 

Faux organized stack of quilt squares that haven't yet been sewn

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Can't think of a really good punch line for the end of this so make up your own on my

Faux organization??

Had a great weekend in Hutchinson with these two fun  ladies. We toured the Underground Salt Museum. Cruised the antique shops. Swam. I won the firestarting contest, (because I brought the battery operated candles)! Drank some delicious wine. We went to bed early and fell asleep with smiles on our faces!!  Love you girls a teepee full!!



My family comes to my house for Thanksgiving and I love it! Turkey, Dressing, Chicken and noodles and mashed potatoes, oyster casserole.  Mom's pumpkin pies!!

For a little extra fun I spell out everybody's names around the house and make them find it!  Makes them get up and look around.  The only rule is nobody can tell someone else where their name is!!

 

On the couch where "John" usually sits.

 

Beads on a bookshelf.

Down low.

Up high.

On a mirror.

Edge of a table.

Bottom of the back door.

On the china cabinet.

Inside the fluorescent light on the ceiling, in the kitchen.

On great-grandmas antique cupboard.

A lantern hanging behind the wood burning stove.

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Top of the doorway from kitchen to living room.

On top of the great-grandmas cupboard.  Spelled with scrapbooking cutters.

I will have to get more creative.  They've figured out my usual display spots.  Maybe they should be disguised?  Hmm...

 

I work with this great group of gals in our Outpatient Clinic.

    Here we are getting a private lesson on CPR.  We have to renew CPR certification every 2 years.

 

 

C. in gray uniform is our newby in the clinic but she has been around our hospital for years. She is our personal CPR instructor.

 

Ch. and A. and I have been working together for about 10 years and have been through a lot together. Marriage, death, stellar birthdays, rough days, great days, disagreements, "sickness and in health".

I love the work I do and its because of these great gals!!

 

 

 

Taking pictures early morning...  

 

everybody waiting for feed...

 

drop the camera lady, get the feed bucket, and nobody gets hurt.

A little stroll around my sewing room. 

 

3rd month~3rd quilt. This one is slightly different.  But it is sewn down to fleece like the others. "Quilt as you go".

 

I purchased this kit at Silver Dollar City.

 

 

 

This is the view out my window today.  Looks like it is snowing inside!!

 

 

 

  In the past it has been

 the little bedroom,

the old bedroom,

the boys bedroom,

Dad's bedroom. 

This year it will be the

sewing room.

 

 

The bathroom can be really convenient!

 

There's my desk where I keep track of alpaca stuff.

Fabric and sewing stuff.  Music on top!  Old "boom box" on top!

 

 

A presently unmade bed.

 

Ironing board.

 

My scrapbook stuff. 

 

Sewing machine in front of window.  Do love that view.  I'm waiting for the beautiful view of spring.

So that's my sewing room.  Could have gone all day without seeing this, huh? And still be the same. But thanks for looking. 

AACK!!  Winter Weather, again??!!    But I'm torn?!   I don't yet have to feel guilty for not doing outside chores and relishing  being able to do inside chores without guilt!  I don't yet have to mow, water a garden, trim around trees/house/garage/crap in the yard! So Maybe I don't really dislike the winter weather.  I don't have to feel guilty for staying inside and sewing.   Ok Mother Nature bring it on,  SNOW ME IN!!!!

Date night with 1/6 of my grandchildren.

Fun evening last night with my grandson C____. Walked up and down the mall. Bowled at the Alley and he rode the go-karts. Then the movie theater, had dinner and watched "Gravity" in 3D. 

Eating dinner.

Go karts. Yes, C___is in the blur.

 

Bowling

 

C___ and I with our 3d glasses on. Kind of spooky, huh.

Saturdays my ranch hands scoop poop, help me with my alpaca chores  and do just about anything I ask of them. My ranch hands also happen to be my grandsons and their friend. Today they helped me inject a microchip into "Our Friend Jacob" an alpaca we are taking to show in March.  My grandson P_____ has been helping me for a couple years.  He is so helpful and I appreciate everything he does for me and the alpacas. Thanks, Bear.

Raising alpacas on my country lane

 

 

This is my view at 6:30 in the morning when I am feeding alpacas.  It has gotten  brighter, lately since the sun comes up earlier, (which will change soon with DST).  I feed.  I count heads. I check for health or something else. Sometimes I drink coffee. This is why I raise alpacas on my country lane.