I HAD A GREAT DAY WITH MY GRANDKIDS

I am so blessed with great grandkids. Today my daughter Jackie had a Christmas sale to tend to and the grandkids wanted to come to the farm for a visit.  No sooner were they here that Simon grabbed the broom and started to sweep the floor without being asked. They know how busy I am and want to be of some help and not be a bother.  As a matter of fact Simon holds a job at a health food store in town. He  stopped by one day and asked if they wanted some help and offered to sweep the store. He did such a great job that they paid him with some food. He's still too young to be employed but he has been holding the position of floor sweeper and other little job for a couple of years now.   Simon is a sweetheart.

Liam was a great help to grampy hanging some sewet with seeds and fruits for the birds in the maple tree.  No need to fetch the ladder. Nicole love a photo opportunity, why not, she is so photogenic.

Job well done and Liam show his agile abilities  at resting in the tree before coming down.
Nicole is hugging her tree for the day. Our snow is all gone.

Mira managed to get a few knitted stitches on her project while Nicole and Liam are waiting for grampy to bring in the Christmas tree.

Again, Nicole doesn't loose the opportunity to get her rabbit ears behind Mira's head. Notice her baby teeth missing.  Mira looks so much like her mom. 

Nicole has drawn the baby calf that we nicknamed  Football . The kids all came to help me feed the calves and the young heifers. My work was done in no time. Liam and Simon brought down a pile of hay from the hay loft after a briefing on safety precautions and Nicole tried to make friend with Football. At first Football was scared of her but I told her that he needed to get used to her and in no time they were good friends and he even licked her arm.  She drew Football in his pen.  The flash did fade the picture a bit.  I think that she did a great job. She complained that she didn't draw very well  as she compared herself to her older sister but I showed her some primitive rugs on Rug Hooking Daily and told her how much people loved those Primitive designs and then she said that she liked her drawings. 

 Here is a better shot without flash.  I love the border. Just look at those little hearts...I think that she drew a happy Football.

Grampy, and Mira are setting the lights on the tree while Simon is still dusting everywhere he can find dust or cobweb. Alas My battery died down and I had to recharge my batteries and will post the rest of their work tomorrow. After the barn work Mira came home to cook some supper while I finished washing bottles and give the grain to the older calves and heifers.  I had a great day with the grand kids. I just wish that Jordyn could have been here too. She would have had a great time too.   JB

THINGS WE DO TO OURSELVES

Lately it seems to me that times passes me by at lightning speed. It 's no sooner Monday that it's Friday again and the weeks and months vanishes before my eyes and the wrinkles grows deeper around my eyes, my knees cracks as I climb the stairs and it seems like only yesterday, it was summer. I'm always turning the calendar pages and just got a new 2011 calendar a few days ago.

It was never like that when I was younger and I used to accomplish so much in a day and had something to show for my efforts.  WHAT HAS GONE WRONG???

I get up early, eat and run to the barn to work and get back home and run to check the phone to see who left a message, to  the computer to see who has left a message for me on my blog or on Rug Hooking Daily, whose birthday is it today, who posted a new photo of their rug,  or my Gmail account or my other email account and I go to bed later now too. That's enough to wear me out.

I've been thinking about it a lot lately and when Doris, my blogging friend suggested that blogging was a TIME THEIF, it made me realize that she was perfectly right. My rug is at a stand still, my quilt is crying from loneliness and abandon, I'm feeling unproductive and so I'm taking stock of how I spend my leisure time.

I love, love blogging. It's a creative side of me that I had no idea I had until I took the plunge when a wise Rug Hooking Daily friend plainly said, JUST DO IT.

Well, I JUST DID IT, not knowing what I would talk about  or even how to start a blog or what it would be called.  My pride got in the way and I  didn't asked for help but started to investigate and I can't even remember where I started but felt the thrill of discovering my way around Blogging. I thought that maybe I'd blog once  week, but every evening when I sat at the computer key board, it was like my fingers were magic although I'm a two finger typist. lol...
Words flowed from my fingers effortlessly without even having to think what I was going to talk about. I had to learn how to upload photos etc.

My blog was started on August the 2nd, 2010 and now I have 33 Followers and  others who follows privately around the glob as my stats suggests.

I feel guilty if I don't check everyones of my followers blogs and leave comments and the same goes for Rug Hooking Daily.

Why am I so caring about people I never met and probably never will meet. Well, that how I am...
With my schedule, it's even difficult to find time to plan meals and do all that needs to be done. Where do I draw  the line and make time for myself and my other hobbies??? That's the difficult part. I love it all and want it all, greedy ole me.

What is the solution? Has anyone got an answer for me? HELP!   JB