Summertime Puttering

Nothing exciting going on at my house, just getting some of the outside work done while the weather is still comfortable.  We have had some great days and I usually "kick" myself when I put off something that needs to get done and I have to do it when it's hot and muggy. 

One side of my house has always been very shady and because of that the siding has gotten very green and terrible looking.........I only have the "before" pictures so you will have to wait to see the after for another post.  Here is what it looked like yesterday afternoon...............

We have cut quite a few trees down on this side of the house for our garden area so it should stay cleaner longer.  This was one of the little things that I wanted to get done on this side of the house, we are working on this part of the yard and now I'm not disgusted with the way the house looks while I'm working over here! 

I also finally hung the wonderful gift that Deb sent me quite some time ago, I knew where I wanted it to go, and a few months ago I found the star and the "saying" and proceeded to put them in the corner with good intentions to get it put up, finally got that done!  I know the quilt top is not finished but it still makes the wall look great!  Thanks so much Deb, I really love it especially since I know that you made it with your own hands!  What do ya think??

 I also had to get the "furnace" room cleaned up since we have the "Direct TV" guy coming soon to do some tweaking and the furnace is also acting up so that's another repairman to call!  It certainly was time to tidy up in that room, it tends to get neglected with everyone going in and getting stuff and not putting things back, hard to believe. 

After dinner I did a few of the "little" things that needed to get done to the chicken coop area, so now I can cross a few more things off that list.  I had to put a couple of hooks to hang the water container and feeder and I had a board to put in around the bottom of the coop so I can fill in around the coop and make it look pretty.  I still have more to do, but there is a lot of summer left to get it all done!  Tomorrow I have to attempt to dig a trench for the Direct TV wires (we have to relocate our dish), thankfully we have a backhoe so I should be able to get it done, don't worry hubby will be right there telling me which lever to push, pull, etc!  

Gotta get to bed so I can get up and do it all over again in the morning.    Blessings!

Puttering and a Giveaway

I know I mentioned that I would have a post with photos soon, well our laptop is in for repairs and that is the computer that I use to "do the photo stuff".  I might get hubby to play with this computer and maybe I can get photos onto this one, that would be awesome.  So for the moment you have to put up with just my words.

Not a whole lot going on in the quilting department, I have puttered outside a little, we just got two loads of "gold compost" delivered......I spent a little time stacking some of the wood that we got after all the other wood was stacked and/or brought inside.  In the coming months we will continue to get the side yard ready for the garden area (that we will have next year) as well as preparing for placing the new coop and yard area.  We have 3-4 trees that we need to cut, limb, split and stack so we will have more sunlight for the garden.  I wonder if it will look anything like the picture I have in my mind, LOL!

Enough gabbing about my yard and onto the wonderful giveaway from Amy at Homestead Revival, I just recently found her blog and was so excited when I saw that she was having this giveaway!  It consists of four books and is called the Homemade Living Series.....Keeping Bees, Home Dairy, Canning & Preserving and last but certainly not least Keeping Chickens.   So hop on over and tell her I sent you (no it doesn't get me extra chances)!



Hope you have a great week!