Eleanor Burns and the Yellow Feather...

Our first victim was "Quilt In A Day" - Eleanor Burns. She is crazy and always super entertaining! "Throw those scraps over your shoulder"- guess you have to be a quilter to truly appreciate it....it's a quilting thing! I actually was talking to her before I realized who she was....when I looked at her face I nearly fell over:-)

The Yellow Feathers take Paducah

Last week four of my dearest friends and I took off to the Paducah quilt show- Mecca for everything quilt related - and them some. It is a wonderful place- the whole town gets involved in making our stay the best it could possibly be - from the Boy Scouts making AWESOME strawberry shortcakes to the Rotary exhibiting antique quilts that bring tears to your eyes.
As you can imagine it is quite crowded - lots of people - In order for our group to pick each other out in a crowd I made yellow chicken feather hair clips. Sounds innocent doesn't it? Well let me tell you- it was truly amazing what happened - EVERYONE was telling us how much they liked them , and it went on and on. We really couldn't go 20 feet without someone acknowledging us - greeting, brief chats, telling us where our fellow feather wearers were. Even the men got in the act- except they thought we were Indians...."what tribe are we in?" The result was so cool- we got to meet SO many people from all over - share a smile and a few words.....Every day it got better and better - the culmination was 2 of our group being interviewed by a newspaper reporter and being in a front page article of the Sunday Paducah paper.
We decided to have a little fun and have our pictures taken with the quilt world "celebrities" - what a HOOT! They are really good sports and we had lots of fun with them- the following posts are the results of accosting some of the major people in the quilt world... I think they are still scratching their heads wondering what happened to them:-)
And it all started with a silly yellow feather hair clip!

Paducah

In Paducah, Kentucky at the quilt show with friends:-) awesome dinner at Patti's Settlement -love the pork chops!!!! This handsome drake was saying hello!

Here we go again!

Here are the next group of eggs going in the incubator! They are Olive Eggers from Louden Farms. Don't you love the colors?

Chicken update🐔

Here is a picture of my 2 beautiful Black Copper Maran chicks. They are about a week old in this picture. They are very sweet birds with no fear of the human hand.

Rosie - the fastest beak in the south!

Grandson Alex and I had a very " crafty" week. One afternoon we spent sewing a pocket he filled with flowers and gave to the little girl across the street. Yesterday he decided he wanted to decorate and fill a foraging activity box for Rosie. He filled this little compartmented box full of seeds and nuts- then we spent quite a long time decorating the sides - it was a pretty elaborate deal that took us the afternoon. I hung it in her cage and after a couple minutes of wariness, she hooked into it and demolished it in 30 minutes....but she had a great time doing it!

Chicken Butt

With 3 beautiful grandchildren - 2 under 2 years old it is safe to say we've cleaned up our fair share of poopy butts.....Well- I can now add this to my list of accomplishments- cleaning a chicken butt! My sweet RIR Lulu had developed a pretty ugly looking poopy clump on her rear end. Since her eggs pass over that nastiness and her lovely fluffy butt was very unbecoming, something had to be done! Here you can see me soaking her butt in warm water to loosen up the ugly clump. She was quite calm and tolerated this indignity quite well. I happy to say she is once again her beautiful fluffy butted self- clean as a whistle. Can you believe I soaked a chicken butt?????