Fancy lays her first egg.

Well it finally happened. Ms. Fancy decided to become a grown up mom and give her mommy, me, an egg.


She laid it on
Monday Oct. 26, 2009.

She's a proud new mom.

I noticed that she was following the pattern of the others when they were about to lay their first egg; wandering by themselves. I then noticed her sitting on the nest for about an hour or more. By the time the newborn was delivered, it was to dark to photo, but I got a great picture today. These are her first photos after becoming a new "mom".

One of my newest projects -Red white and Blue mini quilt

I got this gem finished a few weeks ago and is just getting around to listing it. It is listed for sale on my website. Click on the quilt to view more photos and /or purchase.

There's no place like homeHand Quilted WallhangingWall Applique LandscapeHouse Art Quilt

This is for sale on the handmade site called ETSY. Click here to view the complete description and/or purchase this lovely landscape quilt.

~~This quilt is apprx. 24 x 18 inches (60.96 cm x 45.72 cm)~~

This is a pretty and unique, and one of a kind new landscape appliqued wallhanging quilt that I made using my own imagination. I hand appliqued most of the components on this gorgeous gem. Notice the mailbox, near the driveway, at the lower corner; just as in real life.

The golden string of beads.

The golden string of beads will come to life eventually.













I'll make this story short and "antique". LOL. I purchased this container of a continuous string of beads more years ago than I can exactly remember. (at least 20) At that time, of course, I, as most crafters do, had great plans to cut the string of golden beads into various as needed lengths, and use them to embellish many wonderful handcrafted items. Well !!!













I found this container last week while looking through some long lost stacked up crafting boxes.

One point worth mentioning is that the store from where this item was purchased has long, long ago gone out of business. (but I still have THEIR beads and still maintain the strongest intention to use them in some gotta have hot new items)













Mind you, that my family would have long ago thrown them and much of my other crafting supplies out to the curb, were it not for my constant rebelling.













Moral of the story is: Never leave your noncrafting minded family in charge of your long lost crafting items; for one day for sure, you will find those long lost items and make NEW PLANS to bring them to life once again.

Who picks a peck of pickled peppers; and who has bragging rights???

ONLY the first photo here on the plant is a pepper in my garden.

This is a story about how I thought that my garden grown peppers were kinda long until the neighbor brought some over that a co-worker had given her. Just take a look and tell me if I can brag about mine or not !!!

All peppers below were given to me. Dig the unique shapes.

My larger ones are about 3 inches, oh but lookee at what the neighbor brought.

Speaking of Okra - have you ever seen such an odd one ??

This is the oddest that I can remember ever seeing. It's still in the garden-haven't picked it yet. Wonders would it taste different than the other okra ??????? Inquiring minds wanna know. Who would like to do the taste test??? LOL

In re an inquiry about the size of my okra

Lucky me for keeping records of almost everything. After the inquiry about the size of my okra, it wasn't difficult to find the answer to poster, Timeless Beauty's question.

I kept the empty seed packages for all of the vegetables that I planted in my garden this spring. Even though most didn't grow well, I know exactly what I planted and where. I have a map that I didn't post here, showing what went where. Even though when I did the planting, I had never imagined that I would have finally set up my blog, and that someone would inquire about one of my plantings. I love the inquiry, makes me feel like a real gardener. LOL

As shown in the photo, this particular okra grew to about 4 inches. (or 3 inches if you don't count the stem). I pull them before they grow too large and become hard. (Some are smaller when pulled, however, as is shown in the previous post.) The variety is Clemson spineless. I don't know if you are able to read the info on the back of the package, but it says 'best when pods are 4 to 5 inches long. It, also, states that they grow to 7-8 inches long. I would imagine that they would be too hard by then.

I smiled as I passed the egg section while shopping yesterday.

Yes, with my babies giving me the freshest eggs on the planet, I can say goodbye to store eggs for a while. Two of the six are laying steadily. A third is laying soft shelled; will be glad when she learns the trick of the trade and hardens up.
(The white egg is the last of my store bought eggs)

The beads have no connection to the eggs; just thought they looked cute together.















And this is all that I collected from my FARM/garden today. The egg was laid about 2 hours ago from this posting. I pulled the okra about an hour ago. This is as fresh as you can get.

Have you ever eaten RAW OKRA ???

(I will be showing other goodies from my garden in my next post)

Well, I never had until last night. Somehow the thought occurred in my mind to sample it, so I did. The flavor is surprisingly sweet and not bad at all. A little slimy, but that's the makeup of okra. Take a look at my okra photos.















I grew a row in my garden, and have been enjoying the few that did produce. Last night I made black eyed peas, and used the ones in the photos in the peas. I've always loved peas with okra. Some of my family doesn't like it that way because the slimminess is more pronounced than when okra is fried.















Can you spot the okra in the photo below ??















What's the red in the photo? Try taking a guess.















Whole okra, and headless/tail-less okra. My family always cuts the heads and tips before cooking. You've probably noticed that the store packs usually contain the heads and tails (well the packs that I've purchased does).

Chaka lays her first egg

Chaka stands near my okra in the garden.

Chaka is no longer into terrifying bags, she is now the mom of her first egg. I noticed that she constantly strayed away from the rest of her crew that day, 9-29-09; and was seemingly in her own world, and was looking for a nest. Well, by about 4:30 pm, Chaka decided to just quietly sit and release her first egg in front of the house.

I sat, watched, and waited, then picked the egg up while it was still warm. Being that she is of the Black Giant breed, I was surprised that her egg was quite smaller than Queens'.