One thing leads to another

It's been a busy day with lots of irons in the fire. I've been playing catch up from being in the hay field during this past weekend & the begining of this week. I think that all of the laundry & the basic household chores are all caught up, YEAH!!! I even made the time today to make my husband his lemon cake. It's become a yearly tradition at Fathers Day & his birthday (they are only a month apart).

I guess I wasn't thinking correctly & way over bought on the lemons. I think that I used 5 today & I still have a whole bowl full left. I'm guessing I will become creative on how to use them up.

The only down side about this little problem is that I can't have them. Lemons & me do not get along very well & it stinks because I love lemons.

On Tuseday morning I was doing my best to finish up baling the last of the hay that we had laid down. There was a major thunderstorm headed right for us & this happened

That is net wrap underneath the belts on the baler. Don't ask me how I did it I can't tell you. 

There was also net wrap coming from the back side of the baler. Yup that's my kiddo doing his best to help his momma out. Don't worry he's not in any danger. All brakes & saftey precautions were taken.

 My white knight/husband came to my rescue. He was able to get away from work and get me out of my jam & finish up with the last 3 bales right before the deluge of rain hit. I got stranded in the barn when the rain hit. I was putting up the electric fence & ran into the barn for a dry place. We got 2.5" of rain that afternoon.

I was finally able to get into my sewing room & cut up some fabric this afternoon! I'm working on my latest 10,000 piece quilt that I"m calling "The Chess Board". I'm using cream to light tans for the neutrals & Civil War Reproducitons for the darks. As I'm cutting up these scraps I've been coming up with different combinations of the 3 sizes of strips that I use (1.5",2" & 2.5" strips) for the scraps that I have. I thought that it would be a great diagram. As soon as I get it completed I'll post it here on the blog.

We have also had to do some doctoring for one of our first calf heifers. She has a sore foot. We put her in the squeeze shoot & gave her some sulfur pills. They are HUGE!

My very gentle husband giving her her meds. They both did very well.

We're supposed to have lots more rain tonight & into tomorrow so I'm hoping that will mean more sewing time! I do love rain days! I hope that y'all are doing well. More later on,

Vicky