BLESSED SPEEDY

 And just like that I have heaps of finished things to show you, and Im pleased about that as last week was all about progress (or lack there of) Firstly I finished a sock! This one has been my travel knitting project (yes I always have something on hand to work on if Im to be a passenger in the car while Gary is driving - Im sure that doesn't surprise you and its amazing the amount I get done!) The pattern is called stack of books and the yarn is from stray cats yarns in the colour way maisie. Im actually pretty impressed how well i matched up the stripes in the pair.  Next was the - ta da!!!! - cross stitch project that I have spent literally hours and hours on and at times I almost gave up but Im glad I didnt and I really like it!  Its currently at the framers getting framed as I think its just a bit special And thirdly (yep 3 finishes on the craft front this week) I finished this hat - now green is not a colour I like but a friend sent me this and I liked it!  The hat will be s

This week has again been busy on the farm with ai (artificial insemination still going strong! Hopefully lots of red heifer calves next march and april! We've had our first calf born for spring and it came 10 days early so its quite small but it makes up for its small stature by having an excellent set of lungs and an excellent drinking capacity - I think I will call it  "barrel" as you can see from the pic - she's pretty full and round! I dont have any finishes on either the crafting or reading side of things - but Im really happy with my progress on the cross stitch - Im up to the final lot of flowers! This has been a challenge - I thought it was a fairly easy cross stitch (as Ive only done one previously) but it's actually A Lot.  Im wanting to get it finished by the end of July and I think I might just do it! So a short but sweet (and cute) update this week - see you next week with hopefully a lot of finishes!  

 And just like that another week has gone by! What did I do? Well we succeeded in getting Every Single Cow eligible for AI done - woohoo, something we have NEVER achieved - fingers crossed that a good proportion of them are in calf, yes there will be returns (as in having to AI them again but thats to be expected) Next March is going to be busy! Also snuck in two days off farm to firstly attend the Bendigo Sheep and Wool show - here's what a bought and I think it's pretty modest! A couple of kits and supplys for felting, some buttons and some fleece to spin.  Gaz bought a calf trailer and a whipper snipper thingy so spent lots more than me!  Megan came with us too which was fun. Stayed the night in Bendigo (or Spendigo) as we like to call it then off to watch Declan play footy and Maddy and Mia play netball - that was fun! So blessed to be able to spend time with family.  On the crafting front (apart from the above!) Ive been working solidly on my cross stitch and Im starting t

 Its been a cold and drizzly rain kind of week - and Ive had an extremely painful leg which involved going to echuca for an ultrasound in case I had a DVT (Blood clot in the leg) thankfully I dont and next week Im to have a CT scan in case I have a pinched nerve.  Its super annoying as I cant work out a way around the pain and sleeping is hard. But there is a silver lining - Ive finally got to 50% of my cross stitch Ive been working on - its been super slow but Im happy with the result.  Id like to get it finished by the end of the month but it will be tight.  Ive also finished two books - the first one is a physical book = A darker shade of magic by V.E. Schwab and it was highly recommended to me by an overseas friend and what an awesome book and book 1 of a series of 3. It's about London but not just one London.  In fact there are four that share that name and location and each is on a very different plane of existence. It is set in the early 1800s when magical travel between th

 Well thats half the year gone! Anyone else think that time is passing a lot more quicker than it has before? Or is it just that I have so many things I want to do and the list just keeps on growing! On the farm its been super busy with us still in the midst of the ai program, but thankfully not many calves left to feed so that full focus at the moment is on the future cows in the herd.   It takes a lot of vigilance, observations and data crunching but we are getting there.  We have already hit our target number of cows to be ai'd in two weeks so pretty happy with that - fingers crossed the pregnancies have held - although march/april next year is going to be super busy!!!!!! On the knitting front I finished one sock - the pattern is called "Stack of Books" and is I think going to be another firm favourite for self striping sock yarn.  The yarn I used is Stray Cats self striping yarn in the colour way Maisie and I got in as a gift from a friend on Ravelry.  Lovely to knit