FIRE!!!!!!!!

While we were getting our haircut Thursday morning we got a phone call from dad; he said there was a problem with the fire at home. Dad had been burning some trees when the wind blew the flames. We raced home to see that there were about five fire trucks.  Luckily it was just the prairie burning, not the barn! Everyone was fine just a little tired, except dad, who was just a little scorched. Luckily, it only burned about half an acre. Thanks Tiffin and Oxford fire departments!

Fire trucks tend to fire

We're famous!

Check out who was on the front page yesterday! 

Here is the link:

 http://www.dailyiowan.com/2012/03/07/Metro/27369.html

A Natalie Original!

Our Mom bought this fabric at the Dreaming Bear in Marion last fall. She cut out the fabric to make a skirt. It laid there for months until Natalie got her hands on it...
TA DA!!! An apron! Johnson county fair- here she comes!

February Farm News

Zelda

Ivy

Last week we went to the vet for Zelda, Ivy and Hugo to get spayed and neutered. After their surgery, we got a phone call from the vet saying that Zelda was actually a boy, not a girl like we thought!!! We are still keeping his name Zelda though, because apparently Zelda can be a boy name. Today we did some vet work with Ivy taking out her stitches. 

Hugo

 

Fergie in the nesting box

Our chickens have been slacking off on laying eggs. Their egg production has been almost cut in half! We think that they might need a little bit more sleep. Don't we all? We are going to reset their timer to go off half an hour later. Elliot needs his daily double egg breakfast wrap.

Energy

We have been studying alternative energy and made a video that we thought you might like...

Quilting

We have been studying quilting lately. We traveled down Highway 1 to Kalona's quilt shops. They were amazing! On the sidewalks of Kalona they have created quilts out of different colored bricks.

We also went to our Great-Grandma Margie's house to see some of the quilts she has made. She gave us tons of quilting magazines and scraps of fabric. She showed us some of her very hi-tech sewing machines.

We have made a video about quilts, based on the hit series Reading Rainbow! :)

Sewing 101

Things have been a bit slow at The Golden Egg so we decided to get out the sewing machine from 1973. When we first turned it on a few parts fell off so we spent a while fixing that. Thank goodness Grandma saved the instruction booklet! We FINALLY figured it out, then we threaded it. When we started sewing all of the thread got bunched up and the fabric wouldn't move. After pushing lots of buttons, lifting lots of levers and turning knobs the last knob we turned WORKED! We were finally able to sew. Here is Natalie's project.

Whoops! SEAM RIPPER TIME!!!!!