This was a real ho-hum day on the farm – sitting with these guys was my main activity! Marie C – all these goat pics are for you! š Iām hoping to get a good one to frame.
Weāve also been discussing small trimmers – hereās mine and itās really a great tool. Battery operated.
Somebody asked about a recipe from the Goat Gazette Cookbook and I canāt find the request. Please leave in comment.
Lyn was not getting the photos – anyone else have a box with a ? in it and no photo?
I pieced a couple backs today and got two baby quilts ready for the long arm.
Too cold to mow.
Working on log cabin blocks. Try to imagine working in these conditions!
Fever game was good – Iām glad they won but Iām worried that Caitlyn didnāt play because of back pain.
One sort of silly side note – do you remember sheet blankets? I have an old one on my bed in the cooler months and am so appreciative of all the handwork on the top and bottom edges of this one. Anyone familiar with this fancy work on a common blanket?
Do you have a plaid quilt? Feel free to send it my way. Tomorrow night I will be asking for a different type of quilt photo – get ready!
Mary,
Catching up with the blog. The weekend days at the Springfield Extravaganza were great fun but tiring! We walked and walked. I bought a few things for decoration in my garden and a few batik bundles from a nice lady selling fabric. She had a ton of fabric and I enjoyed her booth very much!
Wanted to tell Linda in Saginaw that there is a new(ish) quilt shop in Lake Orion, MI for her visit with her sisters. It is called Stitch & Sew. And also, to Lynette in FL, I am so sorry about your horse. Thatās tough, hugs to you.
I have planted some of my garden, both flowers and vegetables.
The quilts have been wonderful. And I love your new goats. Gosh, they look so entertaining! Thanks for the blog, Mary. Take care, everyone. š»
Hi Mary, I showed my husband the pic of your adorable goats. He immediately said “No you can’t get goats!”
Teresa – thereās your mistake – showing him first! Haha!
My great aunt used to trim sheet blankets, woolen blankets and even sheets with crocheted trim. Sheād then do a set of pillowcases with hairpin lace in colors that coordinated. I still have one pair of pillowcases that she made for us a wedding gift in 1971!
Debbie – you have a treasure!
I am not getting the photos either-just a square with the question mark in it. Enjoy your news.
Marsha – donāt read from email – go online
Marsha – did you go online to see the photos?
Mary, your goats are just adorable! I sure youāll get a good picture of them, probably with Hazel in them. Iām just so fascinated with all your animals and how they all get along together. Have a great holiday weekend! I canāt believe itās almost June.
The goat are just adorable and lucky to live on the farm. They certainly have some interesting colorings. We never had goats on our farm when I was growing up. Baby goats are super adorable. We travel home on Friday and all of us have enjoyed our vacation time but are ready for home. The weather here has been sunny and warm which has been perfect for long walks on the beach. I have never heard of sheet blankets, had to look that up. The border on yours reminds me of doing edges on fleece blankets when in 4-h.
This is what I think is happening when the blog photos donāt display in the emails. When someone wnats to email a photo to a friend, they send it as an attachment to the email. The actual photo file (which may be several hundred megabytes in size) travels across the internet with the email. But when you have an email list of hundreds of people, it would be a waste of computer resources (and thus money) to send the same photo file as an attachment to each of those emails. So instead, the email has a link to go and find the photo on a website, download it and display it in the email.
Emails from bad people could have links that could go other places than a photo site and download something bad, so most email apps have a setting that you can turn on, which wonāt allow anything to be downloaded from a remote website. If someone canāt see the photos, sheāll need to check this setting, which will say something like āAllow remote content.ā Where this setting is located depends on the particular email app thatās being used. Youāll need to read the Help for your email app.
Iām somebodyās grandma, not somebodyās grandchild, but I have lots of computer experience.
Love the goats and Miss Hazelā¦.so darn cute!!
Thank you for the blog Mary. I love it.
Thanks so much!! I’m loving the goat pictures. I spent the day planting perennials.
I have the same chainsaw ,love it wish I would have bought years ago. Love the spotted goat.
Mary, would you take a picture of your hand trimmers with the cover off the blades? I went looking for it online, and I am not sure what I am seeing!
Carol – I sure will
Carol – sending pic to your email
Love all of the pictures. Regarding the pictures on the blog, mine show up on the blog, but not in my email. This happened for the last 2 posts but itās not a problem for me. I just get out of the email and go to the blog.
Paula – well, I canāt figure out why this is happening!!!!
Of course, it could be absolutely anything, given how many different combinations of things there are BUT I doubt that it is the blog software itself.
I have noticed this on several different types of emails — not just blogs — sale notices, professional journals, substack notes and so on. It’s probably some sort of update in some software somewhere { note how specific I am š š š }
For reasons that make no sense to anyone, software companies seem to make big changes in the summer. This wreaks havoc in the classes that I teach because we usually get exactly zero warning. A lot of times, if you just wait it out, things seem to self-correct. In the meantime, going to the blog to read is better anyway š
We had a few of those flannel blankets when I was growing up back in the dark ages… and I think I have 2 of them still. They are indeed old – but in good shape! As I remember, one was twice the length of a normal blanket or bed which leads me to speculate on its use… perhaps it was put on the bed doubled up so that a person could crawl in between the 2 layers? None of ours had the crocheted edging. They were warm and comfy in chilly conditions – and we had plenty of those in northeastern OH in the winter, in an old farmhouse with little heat in the upstairs!
I have a couple of sheet blankets also, Mary, and still love them! This finishing shown in your photo is not on mine because they were purchased with already finished edges from LL Bean. However, the finishing technique here is one I learned in Girl Scouts in the 1950s, and it looks so pretty on your colorful blanket. The older I get, the more I realize how many good things Girl Scouts taught me. Thanks once more for your wonderful blog and the involved community it has created!
Wanda – Girl Scouts and 4-H taught lots of common sense and ordinary skills – yes, I just love this community of women who enjoy knowing each other via the blog.
Mary, your sewing area looks like mine-I take one look and walk away. My elderly, deaf cat has become quite clingy to me, too. She follows me around and always wants to be on my lap. I love that brown goat, Donita! Is her coloring unusual, or have i just never seen one like her. I’ll have to pay more attention when I go through the goat barns at the fair.
Linda – I swear Pammie has dementia – she just has to be very close in the evening when I want to sew. I honestly donāt know if Dotās coloring is unusual – but when I saw the graduation picture of Josh and a show goat I immediately asked and thatās when he said he had this little gal who got stepped on as a baby and didnāt run just right. I knew then she was the one I wanted. She is so friendly because she was a bottle baby but I weaned her when she came here – and little Sarah is timid but Iāll win her over!
Love the little goats. I always wanted dwarf goats. The farm where I boarded my first two rescue horses until my barn was built had two and they followed me everywhere like puppies. Then Cocoa had twins and the morning they were born I fell head over heels in love. Those tiny little bodies on the long legs. And they started head butting each other as soon as they had their sea legs! So adorable, I probably would want to keep them in the house. So it was a go to get a couple of little goats until my husband went with me to the farm and there was the Cocoa and Carrie on the roof on my friends’ car! I guess you can’t let goats on cars ever so my husband insisted no goats. They had plenty of other things to climb on and were often on the roof of the chicken house but no goats on our farm.
I have been cleaning the barn from top to bottom but have to do it in bits and pieces. I am sweeping all the thick nasty spider webs with a new-to-me shop vac that is on a small wheeled cart. I love it. Not as much dust as sweeping them down 3 choking and other than having to clean the filter often and only doing a little at a time, it is going beautifully. My left shoulder bothers me so bits and pieces is all I can do.
I have tons of yard work to do and need to finish washing windows and getting screens back in. I’m tired, but that’s life, at least I will get it all done. Sisters are coming from Kentucky on the 30th and they are going to stay three weeks! I am so darn blessed! We will hit every quilt shop within a two-three hour ride, get a lot we don’t really need but we have too much fun. We always take my best friend who we have adopted as our baby sister because she is so wonderful and overly talented. And we have tenative plans to go to Pittsburg to see my son and daughters-in-law new home. They recently moved from Durham NC to Pittsburg where my son is Vice President of Anesthesiologist at the Allegany Health Systems. I can’t wait to see them and my grand puppies, Olive and Archie.
Blessings to all. It is cool again here today so yard work and windows are on the agenda. Haven’t been able to touch the sewing machine in a couple of weeks, to busy, but can do some hand work before bed.
Linda – give me more info on your vacuum – I have all those dusty cobwebs, too, and a broom makes a real mess.
Goats generally like to climb on things but I provide tables etc for them. And they wonāt be on top of a car if they donāt free range. They would eat my house plants by the house for sure! And remember Susannah who I raised in the house for over a year – it was very hard for me to move her to the barn!!
Linda in Saginaw – I see I have two Lindaās in MI and answered your questions on the other Linda – please refer to that answer.
Love to see pictures of your animals and things around your farm. My grandmother always “fancied up” her bedding with embroidery and/or crochet edging. Even when she was in the hospital for a short stay she asked my Mom to bring her one of her own pillow cases because she just didn’t like to lay her head on a pillow without fancy work.
Ginger – interesting – I suppose bed linens were just another avenue of handwork after youāve made quilts, pillowcases, runners, etc
I havenāt seen pictures as usual either but going to read on blog helps. I love your precious goats š, theyāre so cute! I guess Miss Pam is feeling her age and wants to close to Mama. Sheās still beautiful š», hugs from Lucy and Penny š„°!
I husbands is totally in love with all things Milwaukee !! Every thing! He doesnāt have one of those little trimmersā¦ā¦yet š!
Put lantanas and petunias in the geranium pots yesterday. It was nice to be outside in the sun with no wind!
I love those little goats. What do they think of Hazel?
My mom crocheted that kind of an edge on baby flannel for my babies. Now the moms all want that light weight gauze. It does get so soft after washing.
Joy – the girls are curious about Hazel and she play bows for them and then scampers away. Get one of these little trimmers for Jay for Fathers Day –
That was on my mindā¦..could you tell? Itās way easier to handle for him as he is getting older like the rest of us. He is in good shape tho. š„°
I love my flannel blanket. mine does not have a nice finish like yours though. It is so old. I canāt even tell you how old.
I love the pictures of the goats with Hazel. I bet you they are great fun to watch.
The finished edge on your blanket looks like a hand crochet edging. I’m 75 and my mother would by flannel fabric for her grandbabies and finish the edges like the one you have. Some of hers were a bit more intricate at times and they were all 36 – 40 inches square. All the new mothers loved the generous sizing.
I have 2 flannel blankets. They are both full size and we haven’t had a full size bed in years, so not sure how old they are. Just can’t get rid of them.
I’m in love with your goats!! ā„ļø
Cleaning lady day at my house! Yippee!
Diana – howās your back?
Hello Mary!
I sometimes get the box with the ? — it’s something to do with computer settings and it’s only when I try to read the blog in email. If I click at the top “read on blog” all the photos are there. Maybe someone’s grandchild can explain it to us…… whenever I have a computer issue I find one of the young folks at church and ask them. My trimmer is similar except it’s a stihl. I think whoever invented such things deserves a Nobel prize. The goats are so cute!!! I’m sure they’re great trimmers….. LOL Hazel with them gave me a good chuckle. I loved sheet blankets as a kid and I still do. Closest thing I’ve found are flannel sheets. Cozy. Can’t wait to see what’s next in the quilt show. I’ve been cleaning and painting, Ugh what a chore, but then the outcome gives such satisfaction. Need to get it done so I can get back to sewing. Hope everyone has a good day.
Hi Mary, your goats are so cute! We have flanelette sheets for winter,fabric rather like pajama fabric. In the 70,s they had brushed nylon one that dried quickly, but too static formy liking! Take care everyone, best wishes from Sandy
I also canāt see the pictures. I can see them if I push-read on the blog at the top of the page. The goats bring back memories as we had two of them when my kids were small.
Yes, Caitlyn was not playing due to a bad back. Hope she doesnāt end up on the bench this year for most of the season. Good game anyway.
My grandma had sheet blankets that we used when we spent the night with her many years ago. They didnāt have a finish like that though.
Cindy – did you get the lawn mowed? Do you now have some free time? I hope so. Howās the harvest going for your family?
Yes, lawn is mowed-house is cleaned…unfortunately windows still need cleaned. Crew is almost done cutting. Hoping they get some much needed rain-ha!
Yes, I remember sheet blanketsāthey are/were a very heavy flannel, just right for fall and spring. The goats are cute, Hazel, too. Wishing I had someone to make my windows sparkleālol.
I remember sheet blankets from my childhood (I am 78). Ours did not have any fancy work. Since we did not have flannel sheets back then, I guess they took the place of cold cotton sheets.
Very cute goats Mary, will they grow bigger, or is that their full size? Hope they don’t eat geraniums. Cheers