Sunlight

Granny is making a levi quilt.  He took a break to paint something on the easel.

Nova Spy reading "Eagle of the Ninth" by Rosemary Sutcliff.  It was a good book.

All in all, a mellow homeschool day.

Annette's Download From Jackson

I don't have a smart phone, and Annette does, and she took millions of pictures while we were in Jackson, and I had to save a few to remind me of all the great ideas I had while I was there:

Moda Fabric has adorable western table cloths.  I want them all - and then a ranch house to put them in :)

This was just super cute.

I love the idea of wall papering a wall with pages from a favorite book.

Being a chicken farmer, I thought this was hilarious.  Plus!  cod liver oil!!

Cannot remember this artists name, but we thought his geometric cows were great.

I just liked this one.

Since Annette's a teacher (I guess I am too :)) she bought a lot of educational posters.  This is the one I wanted, but it was out of stock.

I had the idea that this sea foam green and gray color set up would look great at Crabapple Farm.

I want to make my own of these, with my own favorites on it.

I found this old quilt at an antique store and was going to buy it for JoAnne's bed.  Annette, who is a professional quilter, freaked out and said it was waaaaay tooooo old to do that.  She ended up with it.  But she's going to make me a couple of throw pillows with the stars.  This quilt was amazing.

Pinterest Chef

Miss Golden Delicious came home for the weekend and decided to make something yummy for us.  

The cake was super cute.  But still not as cute as she is.

xoxoxox

We LOVE having GD come home!!  So fun!!

Self Reliance

I was so delighted with my mud room, and my amazing show of self reliance, that I had to take a picture:

winter squash

wheat grinder

homemade curtains

homemade laundry detergent

and beef bone broth simmering in the slow cooker.

What amazing domestic goddess lives here????

Golden Delicious and I Escape for the Day

After telling Golden Delicious about how marvelous my trip to Jackson was, and how gorgeous the Tetons were, and how amazing our lunch was at the Merry Piglets, she thought it best if she also could experience all these things.

So, she came home on the last good weekend of the year, and we went!

We planned out all the amazing things we are going to do, and dreamed and had a perfectly beautiful day.  It was wonderful.

Girlfriend Trip to Jackson Hole

Deb and Annette and I went to Jackson the last Saturday in September.

It was amazing.

Deb was raised in Jackson so she took us to all the "local" places,

and Annette is such a great shopper that she is a blast to be with.

Deb took us to Mormon row so we could see the famous Moulton Barn.

I had to put some of my favorite quotes on the pictures.

Ahh... If only we had been born 100 years ago.... this could have been us!

Looks great anyway :)

Summer Evenings and the Colts Progress

Max and Dancer look so much alike, and are so similar in size, they could be twins.  Max is a touch lighter, almost dun red, with a tiny white moon on his forehead, and Dancer is slightly darker, a brighter bay with no white, but other than that, they are practically identical.

Here Nova is on Max.  He is coming along great.  This fall Nova moved cattle with him and Max just takes everything in stride.  I think he is a keeper.  He is a little small, though, but he's just so solid that I really like him.

This is Prairie Spy on Dancer the first time she was out in the open.  She is just pretty cool with everything too.  Plus, she's so lovely.  I'm still crazy about her.

And here's Granny on Pepper.  Pepper is very chill now.  Quite the dude horse (except for when Nova rides him...) and Granny and Mr. Bechtel ride him a lot.

Grandpa and Grandma came out to visit and everyone appreciated Nova's red truck, which he is planning to flip.

And the clouds!  so amazing.  I thought through how to paint them.  It would be so fun!  But since you'd only have about 5 minutes to capture the light, and the camera just doesn't do it justice, plus I couldn't really paint it, period... so then it would be impossible... something to look forward to :)