Sadness on the teeny tiny farm

Gosh! It feels like a week since I sat down here at the computer!  Maybe I can get a quick post done.

Yesterday was sad. Our sweet little Shae, better known as Baby Goat, died during the night, Sunday night. In September of 2009 we drove almost to the South Carolina border to buy two little goats...a birthday present to me from Poppy.

You know, Shae has been sick, even though the vet could find nothing wrong with her. Her blood work came back normal, no fever, no worms, but she has steadily gone down hill since I noticed something was wrong. 

She was about a year old here. Both goats were young when we brought them home. 

I buried Shae on the hill just above where she is standing in the picture...just outside the goat lot.

I've been calling around and looking on Craigslist for another small goat. Little Asa, also better known as Baby Goat will be mighty lost and lonely without Shae.

Thank you all so much your comments and ideas for the living room windows. I went shopping on line and Penney's is having a really good sale right now on Roman shades...free shipping, and 25% off the already marked sale price! Poppy said, order the shades, if that's what you want. I'm thinking I will do just that but keep the curtains too. Changing things out occasionally is fun anyway.

I like the idea suggested too of having a longer curtain rod, but since we have wall to wall 'stuff', deer heads and turkey tails, there is not enough room to move all the brackets further out.

It is a constant struggle here...I lay down a lace tablecloth and he covers the lace with guns and camo gloves. At least the camouflage coats and bags hide the dust and scratches on these old dining chairs.

Late Sunday afternoon I went into a cleaning frenzy in the teen tiny sewing room. What struck me to clean out was a piece of blue fabric that came off the bottom of a stack. It had such a musty odor. I've had some of those pieces of fabric seemingly forever. Even kept several pieces of old ugly polyester double knit...really ugly stuff. Why it had almost become a challenge to see how much fabric I could collect.

Gosh, what a difference! Lots of these fabric pieces were really small, and most of the pieces were just plain ugly and I was tired of seeing them.

Once I saw a bumper sticker that read, "The one who dies with the most fabric wins".

 While cleaning out, this turned up. I started embroidering these squares years ago. This would make a sweet little quilt.

Maybe I will get busy and finish this.

Better get things done. Tomorrow...should be extra busy! We have company coming for Thanksgiving and I want to get a lot done tomorrow.  Thank you for listening again. I'll be over to visit and catch up. 

Love,
Henny