flowerchild

have i mentioned i'm drying flowers?  a few.  it's turned out really well so far, i'm enjoying it.

xoxo - sierra

fell off the blog wagon again

i just found a blog app for my phone, yahoo!  now to find time to craft ..

strawberries .. oh yes.

so today, keith and i were planning on planting hardcore .. but we are conked out after working the past several weeks with zero days off.  i mean, it is literally get up, move chickens, eat breakfast, work outside until one-ish, eat a quick lunch, work outside until about eight, lock up the chickens, come inside, eat dinner, shower, sleep, repeat.  non-stop.  for weeks and weeks.



but today--!  i found out about a pick-your-own berry patch in taylorville last weekend at the farmer's market.  they sell strawberries for 1.50$/lb--1.50$/lb!  it's insane!  how could i not pick strawberries for that price?  we were shooting for thursday since i had so much work to get done--plus the herald and review is coming out tuesday and we have a lot of preparation for that--but since we were so worn out today, i said, hey! let's do this!  so i called amanda panda up and said we needed to see each other stat (my illicit sister wife lover and i haven't seen each other outside of csa pickups in about as much time as i haven't had a day off), and since her hubs was so gracious to keep the day open for us, we spent an awesome mother's day picking strawberries.

oh golly.

poor thing, i ran off and left you all unattended for a good three months.  don't sweat it--i'm back now. :)

this is going to be brief since i'm woefully unprepared when it comes to photos, but i do have a big announcement that you all missed while i was gone--

keith and i got married.

yep, we did it.  we were married december 23 at the courthouse.  it was awesome.  and now we're a blissfully married couple, doin' our thing on the farm.  it rocks.

and that's all for now, but honestly, nothing else has happened.  so you're basically up to speed :]

xoxo - sierra.

another photo-less post.

i'll tell ya what, i've just lost motivation to do much of anything lately.  between getting over the flu and dealing with the dogs and the chickens, i'm just over it.  i need a vacation.  people that don't farm don't understand the importance of the seasonal nature of our work.  i don't want to have tomatoes available year-round.  i need the time off.  these chickens are really annoying me because we have another month or two of hauling them around, trekking out in the rain and checking on them, and damnit, this is sierra time.  october to march should be my labour-free time off.  i don't want to deal with chickens, and i don't think they enjoy being out there in the drizzly, cold fall weather.  so there.

but anyway, dexter is getting over his foot pretty well, and wouldn't you know it, now it's oliver who's hurt.  last night his face puffed up and i'm thinking he has an abscessed tooth.  great.  keith is with him at the vet now (because we can afford that bill).

i'm just sitting here, wasting time and browsing christmas ideas on the intratubes.  what a time-suck.

something just came a-crashin' down outside in the wind, so i guess this is all for now.

xoxo - sierra.

busy, busy.

sorry, dearest internets, for not updating this beast.  i have plenty to write about, but have been so busy i haven't had the time.

this is just a brief update; i hate posts without pictures.

i've been working on my business plan for my bakery business that will start this coming spring.  very exciting! 

dexter is now in a cone because of his foot, and i have tons of adorable, hilarious photos to prove it.  it has made life very entertaining.

the farm is doing well, greens are growing and the chickens are looking good.  we unleashed the henlets to freerange (plus our gorgeous new rooster that we got with them), and they don't quite get it, but they're working on it.  the older hens and kickass do not approve.  we spaced out the remaining roosters into the empty pen, so there's about 39 in each and they're pretty happy.  they're now getting two scoops of food per day, which is really a lot more food since there are less roos in each pen, and they get more forage space also.  i hope they start packing on weight because they look a little thin, honestly.

my church--the church we've been going to off and on--has a quilting group (read: old biddies) and i'm going to look into joining it to learn.  who better to learn from than a group of old women that grew up doing what we're trying to learn to do?  they're hilarious old birds too, i'm kind of excited.

okay, well, that's probably enough for now.  i'll try to get photos edited and whatnot to post on here, i hate text-only posts!

xoxo - sierra.

oops, i craft my pants.

so lately i've been crafting a whole lot, i mean a whole lot, while helping my friend/sisterwife amanda get ready for her first craft fair (good job on that, ma'am).  i've been bedazzling bows for her, since i'm normal-bow-making retarded apparently.  so this post is picture-heavy-ish.

this is the only tree in my yard with leaves (that are pretty, anyway), but isn't it gorgeous?  i took these on one of the super nice days we had this week.  before the wind blew it to smithereens too.

did i mention i've been making bows?  oh.  well i have been.

hobby lobby puked on my table.

i started out downstairs on the kitchen table, but it got a little crazy when it was time to eat.  so i moved upstairs, to my gloomy, crappily-lit craft room of sorts.

what you can't see is the mess on my other computer table, and the rest of the floor.  speaking of floor, god, doesn't it look terrible?  it's an old floor, get off my balls.

this turned out to be even more cramped, so i spread out across the all of the room.  i'm lucky to be able to roll my rolly chair from one desk to the other.

turns out i'm kind of a badass at making felt flowers and fabric rosettes.  ignore the blurriness of the picture, 'cause it's the best you're going to get.

so tiny.  so, so tiny.

i'm making holiday bows.  i like them the best.  but i wish i had more, because i thought i had more and i only ended up with a handful to decorate and i am so bummed.  i'm just going to make more centers, unless amanda-panda comes sooner than i thought to pick them up.

so flashy.  thankful fall bows.

i seriously have been listening to christmas music all day.  tra-la-la-la-la ..

i don't know why i didn't take a picture of the other three bows close up, but whatever.  they're probably the cutest though.  i dug out all my christmas-card-making trinkets and they're fun.  and i found tiny bells, so they have jingles, too.  what little girl wouldn't want to wear a bow that jingles?  not this one, that's who.  i love jingles.

but anyway, i guess i should get to bed or go downstairs and be sociable with db, because he's being a brat today and maybe he just needs some attention or something (i hope it's attention).

xoxo - sierra.