Bitter cold today and will be colder by morning. Everybody is locked in the barn and safe. Tim is not here – I hope he’s at his other warm home.
Hope you’re all well.
Sunday Night, 11-9-25
Country Threads Chicken Scratch
Farm life
Bitter cold today and will be colder by morning. Everybody is locked in the barn and safe. Tim is not here – I hope he’s at his other warm home.
Hope you’re all well.
We’re expecting another cold night, down in the 20’s. Tomorrow will be another cold day, and up in the mid 60’s by the weekend. In our part of SW Ohio, we got a little over an inch of snow. The roads cleared off during the day. Now, we can finish cleaning off the garden and wait for more winter in the next few weeks/months.
It will be a good day to sew tomorrow.
I’m glad your animals are all snug inside the barn. I too hope Tim is at his other warm home. It was weirdly warm here yesterday at 6 pm it was still 60 degrees even though it’s so dark by then. I was working with just a hoody for a coat. We were outside all day, my son took down a cedar hedge tree that had grown to about 20 ft and a dwarf Alberta spruce that was about the same height, both planted in the fenced off veggie garden area where we want to plant our blueberries. I built 2 more raised garden beds and levelled one. It’s now ready for leaves, compost, manure and soil. The soil I will add next spring. As we do these chores I am so happy as some we won’t have to do again, just maintain them.
Teresa – your new place will be a thing of beauty!! I hate it being dark by 5.
I will try to remember to take a picture of the veggie garden when I get out there today it tomorrow once the rains end. I still need to find my picture of the maple leaf quilt I made in fall colours.
Loved Connie’s quilt from yesterday, the colors are perfect!
Mary it is a good thing you moved your plants indoors with cold weather and snow this soon you would have had dead plants.
Our tree leaves are starting to change colors with our temperatures dropping into the 70’s and low 60’s at night, winter is getting closer.
The madras plaid quilt is cute and a good share.
Connie – oh, not to worry – my plants came inside before I had surgery on Sept 8! We got a real cold spell mid September and my plants would have been dead then. I have too many plants! But I can’t throw them away – they’re like children to me that I care for.
We had just a light skim of snow here in SW Ohio, but that wind is bitter cold. So glad I took care of all the flowers & yard clean up on Saturday morning! Saturday afternoon was spent building plastic stand alone shelving to organize the garage. It’s amazing how much will fit on those shelves! Thanks to my friend Ron, the 2 car garage is now organized & items donated! And today my best friend is Advil!😊 I’ve been in an organizing frenzy for several weeks. Sewing room will be finished when the 2 blinds come in that were measured wrong. Amazing what we find opening up boxes packed years ago!
Alice – and opening those boxes presents the problem of what to do with that stuff that was so important to me at the time. My past favorite thrift store has changed to almost retail prices and it’s gone to a profit status so I don’t want to donate to them!
19 here in SW Iowa this morning. No wind!
Catch up here today. Laundry calls. Yesterday I was finishing up the last of the 140 flying geese, I was interrupted so I just shut it down. Will try to finish those up later today. I am getting close to assembly on a mystery quilt from last January. Ha! I put it on my UFO list for next yr. Ha ha The list is due on Wednesday as we meet and finish up this yr. Too tired last night to work on binding.
Good to know that everyone is safe and warm in the barn. Winter weather is on the move eastward and the weather forecasters are predicting some snow overnight for those of us in PA. I doubt we will see anything more than flurries south of the mountain to our north. Oak leaves will “cling until spring” but heavy winds and rain during the past week stripped deciduous trees of most of their leaves so now it looks and feels like late fall.
Hope everyone stays safe and power remains on.
I hope everyone stays warm and safe. Even supposed to get cold down here in Florida – 30’s on Tuesday morning with a wind chill in the 20’s. I know for some of you that doesn’t seem so bad, but things down here just aren’t built for that cold. Many of the old timey houses not only had no AC but no heat as well. 😳
I just view it as a day to spend in my warm and cozy sewing room!!!
Heavy wet snow is covering our branches and tree limbs as well as ground this morning. Lots of leaves still on our trees here so when I turned on the lights last night we have strung between trees in our backyard, it was a beautiful site. If I wasn’t in a hurry to get the dogs to go poddy, I would have gone in and gotten my iPad to take a picture to capture the beauty. It’s a photographers dream day for picture taking with pristine white snow. It seems early for us but we’ve had such mild fall weather in past years, we were due.
Mary I wish quilting would make you thin or a least keep the weight in check. It is cold and we just had flurries here in Eastern Iowa. One more day of it and then a warm up. Forecast for December is cold and snowy. Still have spinach growing but this will be the last week for it. Daughter near Chicago may get lake effect snow overnight, forecasting over 9 inches. Been working on a Spooky Sampler that I got patterns for the in early October with no time to so but got the blocks cut. One block had 137 pieces with some pieces 3/4 square and then using the flip corner method. Four blocks are finished with five to go.
Stay safe and warm as the seasons change.
Mary, is it common to have snow this early in your area?
That would indeed be a dream world but I would settle for quilting making you thin because if fabric were free, I would have all the fabric.
🙂 But I can dream can’t I?
Stay warm, Mary! Hope Tim shows up tomorrow.