Eggs and Entertainment

 

These are our five Cayuga ducks.  We got a pair last year just by a fluke and then we incubated some of their eggs and lo and behold we had duckings.  The original pair are both gone, probably to a bobcat or raccoon but so far these guys are staying safe.  We put them in at night and the dogs protect them during the day.  We get an average of 3 eggs a day but not always in their pen.  Lots of days it's an Easter egg hunt.  They dump them everywhere, including in their water dish, the pond, the irrigation ditch and the driveway.  I think the pond must be full of them.  It looks they are all females but Mark is sure one or two are males.  They all look identical so unless the males develop a lot later these are girls.  They stay busy all day long, waddling around looking for bugs, swimming or napping and are pure entertainment to watch.

Route 66quilt in process

 

This is a work in progress that I'm making for my son in law.  He brews beer and wants to call a future business Mother Road Brewing.  The letters will be outlined so they'll show.  Hopefully I'll finish this by his birthday and it will garner me some beer.

Journal Quilt

This month and for a year I will be making journal quilts. My theme will be about time, something of which I always run out and am anxious to get more of. Each month there will be some sort of concept or idea or something to try. This month it was recycling. so everything I used in this little quilt, only 12" square, was recycled. The background was a Liz Claiborn shirt, sorry Liz, the binding is from a really crummy bunch of lone star pieces I bought in Santa Fe, there is a fork I found at a dump site, and can lids ditto, buttons from an old mattress, needles from a yard sale, an old linen calendar, pottery shards, and my grandmothers rick rack. I'm calling it "You can't recycle time". I like the way it turned out and am excited to do more of them. I have a box I'm putting future scraps in that relate and I'd like to use. I have a shirt label that says AM/PM, so a future journal quilt will be about that. I also am writing about each piece in a paper journal. So far I've gathered all sorts of quotes about time as well as all those thing we say like, I'm running out of time, time out, time waits for no man etc. There are a lot of them. This should be fun!