BLESSED SPEEDY

It was with great sadness that today we had to allow Rusty, Megan's horse and best friend, to go to heaven. She is no longer in pain and is hopefully giving joy to a child in heaven. Rusty was a fabulous horse - kind, gentle and loving and taught Megan so much about horses and riding and caring about animals. She will be sadly missed and not easily replaced - there was only one Rusty and we are proud to have known and loved her.

Our church had a Christmas Eve service - and guess who was the cutest angel there - Mia of course! The playgroup kids sang a few carols - Mia really liked doing Away in a Manger - complete with actions.

Goodness me I must have been good this year - look what I got for Christmas

Christmas 2008 2008 – What a year it has been – our “motto” at church this year has been 2008 is great, God is great. At times this has been a challenge – but looking back we have done a lot and once again got through a lot. Once again we have struggled with little or no rainfall or water allocation – at the moment our allocation of water is 28% - nowhere near enough for our needs. BUT as I write this we have had 33mls of rain in the past 24 hours! We still have had to buy in huge amounts of hay to feeds the cows and although the milk price that we are paid each much is very good – our expenses are even better!!! Our milking herd numbers have increased to 155, which is the most cows Gary has ever milked. Our production is up, our cell count is the lowest it has ever been, and according to our test results our fat and protein is equivalent to that of a jersey herd. All due to the good hay and grain we have been feeding them. Now to our family goings on – • Adam and Alison have lived ...

For those of you who have asked to see more of my dear jane - here is a picture of this weeks bow (block of the week) D1 Alisons Guiding Light and the TOW (triangle of the week) LS10 Megan's Cathedral - both foundation pieced

Look what the post man (well actually lady) brought me today - my prizes I won from the contest on http://onceuponaquilt.blogspot.com - thanks Christine just lovely!!!!!

Yes its true- Ive actually finished off a few quilts lately - firstly Im a member of Cohuna quilters and this is the block of the month we have been doing - quite cute I reckon. Next is a quilt I made up from nine patch blocks swapped (I hate to say it) several years ago. I joined them together and they looked quite ordinary but putting the whole top on point made heaps of difference. Lastly, the quilt I wanted to finish cos it was draggin along - girls day out - which was a block of the month - lovely quilt but I am glad to see the end of it - its hanging in our hallway

Thankyou to all who have tried to find my dear jane fabric for me - here is a better photo - it is navy (well actually indigo) with cream flowers - on the reverse the flowers are white. Hope this helps!!!

Hooray!!!!!!! Finished row I on my dear jane quilt today and thankfully I was working backwards so got to finish up with I1, I2 and I3 which were easy peasy. I am so happy with just using the two colours in this my second dear jane - no hunting or worrying about fabrics - much quicker, and Ive also found my skills are improving - Im not even that scared of the advanced blocks (well so far at least)as its quite easy to post to the Dear Jane list or look on the cd for help and tips. If you havent been mad enough to start a dear jane yet, do, its addictive and fun - and yes people will think you are mad!!!!!!! BTW if anyone knows where I can get more of the fabric I am using as the focus fabric please let me know as I dont think I am going to have enough to finish the quilt

Thanks to everyone who emailed me to see where I was - I was here just too busy to post, or when I went to post blogger wouldnt let me etc etc - Im sure you all know how it is!!!!!!! Lots been happening - will update later today (fingers crossed)