FAIR TIME!!

It was Fair Time in Garfield County and the weather was perfect!!!! Cool...

4-H kids showing their livestock...

A picture I started when Baylee was a baby. I love "redwork" and had never done any until now.

This is a block-of-the month quilt I did from The Plaid Square in Glasgow. It is batiks and was challenging at times. This quilt goes to Dad and Bonnie and the green will go with her Irish red hair!
This is my "Dick and Jane" quilt. I learned to read with Dick and Jane, so when this fabric appeared in the stores, I knew I had to have some. Carousel Quilting quilted it. She did a fabulous job. I told her it was whimsical and to have some fun quilting it. I am sure because of her quilting I won the purple ribbon in that division. I was super excited as that is my first purple EVER! It is still fun to get them...

The one on the left is a wall hanging or table topper and I liked the flowers. The one on the right is the one that makes me laugh out loud when I see it! I am not really "into" Halloween, but this wall hanging was one that I just had to do. I am crazy about that old witch!! You can't see it in this picture but her leggings are purple to go with her red heels. Maybe I have a thing about red shoes!!
What would the fair be without the sandbox by the fair building. They were super busy and it was a little wet, but most of the "youngins" were there so Moms and Dads could find them. I am sure that after a little pink cotton candy the sand stuck like glue...

It rained that night, buckets, which is no exaggeration and hailed some places. It rained 7/10 at our place. I didn't look at the sand box on Saturday but it was undoubtedly busy. I was trying to stay warm during the stock sale so didn't think about the little ones as we didn't have any visiting. My friend Jane brought a blanket for our laps, what a friend! Who would think in August it would feel so cool.

Kids, Horses, Kids

We had Mary come over with the kids to meet my cousin, Roberta. Two Texas Robertas how blessed are we!!! We had made homemade ice cream yesterday sooo...Grammy was ready for Grandies. But, alas! Tis not I they wish to see, it is Cowboy PopPop with the horses you see!
Oh what fun! We had bought a new saddle so the first one who happened along was the ONLY grandboy! We had a little excitement when his hat flew off!! His hat is a size 7, need I say more...I turned around (I was hurrying to the house for the camera!!) and caught Art jumping and Angus was hanging on and Cowboy PopPop was doing some serious horse whispering!


Angus looks pretty serious. This is important and he wants to get it right and goodness, it is a long way down and this is a pretty big horse!

This is one proud PopPop! His favorite saying is, "The outside of a horse is good for the inside of a man." I think one could put boy, girl, or lady too.

Art, he really is one good looking horse!
This is about the third ride. It is getting easier BUT he really would like his hat!

Now it is Maggie's turn to ride and she was the one that asked Cowboy PopPop if they could ride today...

Art is not happy. He was hoping to dump one or the other of them and then he could go back to being the Alpha horse (do they call it Alpha with horses??). Anyway, he is the boss and keeps the other horses in line. He is still boss at 25 years old! Bill said with a little practice, Maggie would be a good cowgirl and be at ease horseback. It is far away to snatch her for a couple of hours here and there...dang!


By the way, Miss Who's It has been named Cleopatra, Cleo for short. The names I came up with were discarded. By the way, I did like the one you picked, Marisa, but My Cowboy wanted to pick the name. It may change before she gets to be two months old!

We had some "training" going on today with the kids here! She needed to be worn out and Angus wanted to catch that "Baby" and just love on her!!

He did a pretty good job. I contemplated sending her over to their house for at least a week, but Cowboy PopPop...

The finishing touch for the day for us (besides the kids being here!!) was Angus's reply to PopPop. Bill is BIG on BEEF and is always trying to get the grandies to say, "Beef, it's what's for dinner!" To top it off, he eats chicken occasionally but doesn't let many people know that! He is always saying something derogatory about chicken. SO, Angus said, "Chicken, chicken, chicken!" We wondered if he had been prompted, but Mommy assured us no! It was such a good laugh!!! Bill was flabbergasted!! As they say, out of the mouths of babes...

Kids...they make breakfast, lunch, supper interesting and entertaining. Why wasn't I writing everything down!!!?