Valentines is coming up

Love is in the air, romance. What are you getting that special person?

Through the Farm Gate

This is Stanely looking through the gate probably wondering Will Spring ever come.

Last night I could not sleep if you paid me. I have been going on 1/2 hour sleep I have been up since 1am. However I have acccomplished lots. Actually I am quite pleased with myself. Can you believe it was raining today that is so crazy we go from freezing to that.
We went to Kamloops this afternoon and picked up my MIA files on the truck then stopped at Micheals and Chapters, bought bread and came home.
In my no sleep state last night I decided I am going to make a purse so now to plan it out, I think I will go cream colours with differnt yarns, satin ribbons and I think I will make it on a loom.

Hats Hats and more Hats

Beautiful soft Mohair this is my first hat not made on a loom. I may have already shown this but it is pretty clever.

Wonderful things

This is a lovely book mark Miss Hyacinth bought me for christmas. I just love it.

Some very pretty treasures and I wear each and everyone.

This is the brooch Miss Hyacinth was given the day she came home from the hospital from her Auntie Sally we have a picture of her next to the Hyacinths in my sisters garden wearing this brooch which is nearly as big as her.

Around my room

This beautiful little Cherub is from my sister in law who quite often will holds some beautiful daisy's.

The dream catcher that catches all my dreams those beautiful feathers are from a lovely dove who graciously shared them with me.

This is what I sleep under every night you just can't help feel like a princess.

Inside our chimney

We have been having a lot of trouble with our wood stove. We bought an expensive log to clean the chimney obviously it did not work this is a pciture of the inside of our chimney. It was over 2 inchs thick.

This is just out of the top pipe. I am sure it was very dangerous.

Today I cleaned out our kidding barn we are starting to get ready for kidding to start at the end of the month. I hope it warms up and I hope it goes smooth. Our gates are a night mare I need to raise them but anyone who raises goats knows the gates need to be close to the ground.
Our big fat dog was left behind in the barn this morning and she was walking around the pen looking for a way to get out and teh baby Alpaca's were so scared. It was quite cute when I went to let her out the babies were humming. Last week I lost our smallest Alpaca it was really sad she was very cute.
Today was a hockey day my oldest son won his first play off game in Summerland, my youngest daughter won her game in Chase and she got two goals. It is funny she really did not want to go but decided to at the last minute and had fun. She was scared to play some of the older girls. My two girls lost their game in Osooyous (do not know how to spell that) it was sad a boy on their team broke his arm and had to go into surgery tonight. Poor guy I bet he was scared.
Well must go to bed full hockey tomorrow we leave home by 7am and I have been given orders to be there with my camera from my pushy older son who thinks he and his team mates all standing in line for O CANADA with Mohawks is worth a photo.
Spell check has not been working for the last few posts so if it does not make sense sorry!

Things going on around home.
When my kids are hungry they decide to bake it gets a little crazy when all six are hungry.

Birthday card I gave to my dad for his birthday.

This is the sign I am making for my dad.

Today we were in town and seem to accomplish quite a bit it is really amazing how fast the days go by. Now it is 8pm and I am extremely tired I can hardly stay awake but we have hockey until 10:45 so it won't be an early night. I may not be able to publish this post as my scanner wants to do a virus scan. We have a full weekend of hockey again so I may not get time to write. I am nearly finished my scarf if I can stay awake long enough I should be able to finish it tonight or if not tomorrrow. Then onto a new project. It has warmed up but it is still chilly. We had to have our fire off today so we could clean it and our house cools down real fast. Yesterday we had a lot of trouble with the fire it was sending out piles of thick black smoke the kind that burns your throat, it sent off both fire alarms. We are burning real pitchy wood and it made thick black like cob webs all inside the wood stove so we tried to clean out some last night but it was still hot and today I cleaned the rest. I bought one of those logs that is suppose to clean out the stove and chimney. So I hope it did what it is suppose to.

Winter Boys

Coming out to see whats up

This is Harry looking like he has an attitude.

What do you notice all these girls have in common...

A very happy girl

They have very dirty faces from their Molasses block and this girl has wool on her horns ask her why or ask the poor girl who was bunted by her.

Finished product I love to see something finished then I can plan for a new project.

Trying to tell us a story!

Knitted slippers

YEAH!!!! woo hoooo look I actually made something that worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
they are not very pretty but they are on my feet and they work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am glad these worked the knitting was quite tight and my poor left thumb is very sore I would like to make some in some nice wool now but this worked they should last until Mimzy gets hold of them.
Today was a very long I woke up to frozen water it is a good thing I get up early and then I decided to get started on the laundry and found my washing machine water line froze up. I phoned my husband he was choked and came home which he did not have to do but it is unthawed now and those kids had better of learned a lesson on keeping the fire going. Then I have a baby Alpaca down so she and her friends are in the barn with a heat lamp and she is wearing a sweater. We have the camera on them to keep an eye on them. I gave her a needle and she took a tiny bit out of a bottle so we will just have to see in the morning.

It is extremely cold tonight so we have water running from each tap doors to the cupboards open. We went to town and bought a whole pallet of pellets for the pellet stove at the back so it is nice to know we have a lot during this cold spell. We were gone to hockey tonight we left home at three and the kids did not keep the fire going so now there is a mad panic to keep the fire going. Not a whole lot new I am just about finished my second slipper if I knit a bit before I fall asleep I may be able to finish the knitting part tonight. I will write more tomorrow and I hope to get the camera going again soon I really have not been taking many pictures.

Today it warmed up quite nicely so I went for a walk snowshoeing and the sun was brilliant that made the snow sparkle it really was quite lovely. I have not taught the dogs to say off my snow shoes or Cowboy stopping to get ice out of his paws right in front of me. I saw some different tracks on my walk some were coyote, some looked like rabbits but one looked like a hoof not sure what that would be.
I am knitting slippers and I will be very excited if I figure it out I love those hand made slippers but they are really hard to find sometimes.
I realized I am an extremely slow knitter I have the attention span of a 2 year old I knit a row then I stop then I try to go again and then I stop yup very slow. I think I hate sitting down it makes me extremely sleepy. I have had my wood stove burning for a full week it is amazing how much wood we have used. Well must run talk to you all soon.

I have been having computer troubles so it has taken me all day to get on the Internet. Before I write about anything I want to say
Happy Birthday to a very special little girl and I thought about you all day having fun swimming with all your friends. I love you very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Today we went to the case lot sale and stocked up on some canned food, cereal, porridge, and sugar it is nice to fill the cupboards. I have been tiding up my wool sorting trying to find room to work with my Mohair in my Glass room since it is too cold outside or for outside office.
Last night we went to Kamloops to watch my oldest son play hockey they won, it was their last league game my son got a goal and an assist I thought they all played really well.
It has finally warmed up it was only -11 this morning so that is much better for doing chores I actually thought we would get snow when it armed up but we didn't. Well I should send an email to the birthday girl before my computer decides to act up again. Have a great night.

This is the night light in our hall ever since we had our oldest daughter we have a light on in the house at night. I just love this light it is so much fun. We our having a whole week of very cold weather I will just get used to it and it will warm up. I do hope it is a warm March as we are kidding and I find the baby Angora goats do not do well in the house.

I have been having computer troubles for two days so I have been backing up photo's, printing and burning pictures onto disks just in case the computer crashes. I have also finished my scarf that is going to Europe so I just have one more to do and I think I am ready to try a feather and fan scarf again well maybe I'm ready.
Last night I could not sleep so I got up try to fix the computer, kept wood in the fire and knit finally at 3:45 am I turned the light off fell asleep but then woke up at 5:10am. I am quite tired tonight so when any of my children look sleepy I am off to bed.
Tomorrow I am staining cupboards it will be good to get that job done.
Today Mimzy went to my side of the bed grabbed my ball of wool that was still attached to the scarf he took it through my room down the hall around the broom under the couch through the living room and then he would not give it to me. I did eventually get it and had to roll it back through the same route the dog took.

Friday Night Fun

This is what was happening around our house last Friday we had card games, card making game playing and three at hockey.

Art work

My oldest daughter painted this picture for her boyfriend of them skating at New Years and it actually looks like them.

Cards we have been making

I made this card at a workshop on Sunday

Trying out new stamps

Today was a full fun day it started out my husband headed to Princeton to watch my middles son's game and bring him home. My son won a MVP somewhere in the tournament and he had fun. Then my youngest son had his last game of his tournament which they one it is only their second game they have won and they were very excited. Me on the other hand was a mess my nerves get shot my hands shake my stomach muscles ache, it short air breathing... Oh I hate having a Goalie. I can watch all my kids play except my oldest son and my youngest son they totally stress me out. Then after rounding up all my children I went to a card making workshop which was fun I don't really know that many people so I am little out of my league but fun still. I made a valentine card and tasted some lovely samples of fruit and veges and dip they were also selling off their discontinued stamp sets and I bought some very fun snowmen. Then it was home again for me to start supper unthaw ( It totally froze today) Then my kids followed later after the hockey game in town they all got in free because it was minor hockey week.
My poor husband went out at 3:30 to work on his logging truck and it is now 9:30 and he is still working on it and his supper is still waiting.
My youngest son is very cuddly tonight needs lots of hugs... actually all the boys seem to be??? Not my girls though sailing around full of it.
Well must run I need to iron my oldest son's suit for his grad pictures tomorrow, Oh yeah and his dogs bandanna he is going for grad pictures too. Can you believe second one graduating.

I have decided I am totally lacking in taking pictures just no time lately. Last night we had a mixed night one of my son's in Princeton in a tournament, two kids at the hockey game in town, one made some very lovely cards, one rolled around played games and ate all night that would be the youngest one who was tired but would let himself go to bed and now he is regretting it because he has to be at the arena at 5am. Then my youngest daughter was full of piss and vinegar all night malling her dad making him have a party with her with hot chocolate ice cream and cookies then pulled out the cards and made him play cards!
My dad gave us a bucket of firewood and some of it was Fir full of pitch it is amazing just like gas so we have to keep it separated and only put one piece in at ta time and it smells so good. It reminds me of the bush when I was little we would go to work with my dad he was a logger and my mom would make us a picnic in a brown paper box always had a cucumber and chocolate bars. we would have a little knife and cut the cucumber and pour salt on it Usually we would make sandwiches and sometime in the winter hot dogs. Anyway the point about the fire is the smell there is a certain smell of fire that brings back all these wonderful memories. I just love it and then sometimes when my husband brings the logging truck home loaded the smell of the trees is wonderful. There are certain fires just calling for a marshmallow or a hot dog. Well as much as I would love to tell you more memories I have to be at the arena so I can hide behind my knitting as it stress me out way to much to watch my little goalie who has now run 90 miles at school.

Just a quick note to touch base I just got home from the arena so it is time for tea and then try to get to bed earlier. Today was a day painting and I will do a bit tomorrow but I must run to town in the morning first. Not a whole lot new working with some lovely wool making a shawl it is much easier to manage than the blanket I am knitting it is getting to big for the arena. Have a wonderful night

Today flew by I got a little painting done , went to town, went to hockey and before you know it is bed time. I put in some more photos in our Christmas album I just need to do our New Years day dinner then Christmas 2007 is done. I am starting to work on a mini album for Mimzy for my middle daughters purse it is really cute. So now she can show him off.
I bought some supplies to make some chocolates for my kids for Valentines chocolate covered cherries Oh my gosh I could eat them all. Well must run talk to you all soon.