Duck...Duck....Goose?

Yup that is the question going around our house after the third egg hatched.  It is possible, we do have two female embden geese and a male.  We just didn't know they were laying eggs yet.  Then again maybe they aren't, we just aren't sure.  I guess time will tell.  Anyhoo would you like to see how adorable the 3 babies are?? 

We are hatching ducklings!!!!

We started out with five duck eggs

Hubby and I turned the eggs four times a day and on day 14 we candled the eggs and found out that only three of the eggs had anything growing in them.                                        Candling Eggs  

Last night was day 28 and low and behold we hear peeping.  Something I never knew before was that you can hear them peeping in their shells, before they have even cracked open yet.  TRULY AMAZING!   Meet egg number 1 he is the first one who wanted out, but us being new to this whole incubator thing we let him stay in the egg too long with out assisting him out of the egg.  He was dried out and had a pretty rough night.  We were not sure he was going to make it.  But a couple of trips to the watering trough today and he seems to be doing much better.

This little guy is the second one that wanted out, and he is doing GREAT.   Hubby googled and found out we need to assist the little guys out of their eggs, unlike if they were in their mother's nest.  Hubby assisted this one out of his egg, I couldn't watch.  I would leave the room and then come back and take a peek and then leave the room again.  We soon learned this one has a set of lungs, wow he is loud.  We are still waiting on egg number three.  We hear him peeping in his shell and we can see the egg move around a little.  He will be hatched soon.  I will keep you posted.

 

I love my view

It just got done pouring rain here.  Hubby and I were very grateful for the rain, our hay field needed it.  We bought this house last year because of how much I love the view.... so I wanted to share it with all of you out there instead of keeping it all to myself.  I spend a lot of time out on our back porch and when I do this is the splendor I get to look at.  

And here is a view from the front door. Check out the beautiful rainbow. 

Our Hobby Farm

Here is a picture my (step) daughter took last year, we had only been living here on our little hobby farm for a month or two. It is one of my most favorite pictures of ALL time.  It captured bunny love, a curious chicken and our gorgeous view of Mt. Garfield (one of the main reasons I wanted this house so badly).  Enjoy!!

I never work on just one project

That would make life way to boring for me.  While the hubby and I watched TV the other night I worked on this scarf.     I found the yarn at Hobby Lobby it is called I love this Cotton -color- #4 Lime Ombre  

It looks like it is made especially for Hobby Lobby Stores.   It matches perfectly to my winter coat.  Why am I thinking about winter coats and scarves in July and the temperature is in the 90's ....  because I fell in love with the yarn right away and just had to find something to do with it.  Plus I was being selfish and wanted to make something for myself, which I rarely do.  Usually the items I make end up in my etsy store.  Ok back to the scarf and yarn.  I need to go get another skein of it because one skein only makes about half a scarf.   The temptation to buy other colors of this yarn is going to be hard to resist.

I've Been Bit By the Japanese Flower Bug (cont.)

I have 13 made so far and I want to show you how different each one is.  I have big plans for these flowers.  They are not going to be turned into a shawl or scarf.   Oh no, something very different.  But I am not going to say what it is just yet, you will have to stay tuned to find out. You have seen the first two.  Here are 11 more.

 

 

I've Been Bit By the Japanese Flower Bug

I came across these beautiful flowers while I was skipping around looking at blogs yesterday.  It took me a little while but I finally found a blog that had a tut (as she calls it).  It was too late last night when I came across the tut,  I had to wait until this morning before I could wrap my fingers around beautiful yarn and start creating my own Japanese flowers.  Last night I dreamed about the yarn I would use and the colors I would combine.  I should have been sleeping I was exhausted but alas thinking about crocheting is much more fun.  

Here is my first one.  

 

I like how it turned out but I really like the color combination of my second one.  

My day consisted of watching movies with my son and making more beautiful flowers.  So far I have 5 made.  I love summer vacation!

Oh and here is where you can find the tut...  http://byelizabethcat.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-make-my-japanese-flowers-like-this.html