What a find!

When Cortney and were in the city for her Driver's Ed. last Friday, we had some time to kill before her class, so.... we of course opted to stop and see what was new at Goodwill.  Cortney found some treasures/ deals and I found this! 

                Someone started a crocheted afghan and for whatever reason it was donated and I  found it!

 I came with a pattern, many of the squares are finished while others need the cream colored trim added. There are a few more of each color square that need to be made in order to complete this afghan.

 It looks like there is plenty of skeins of each color to do the job.

 There is even a row assembled to give everyone an idea of what it will look like, sort of a patch work pattern.

and the best part, this was the price and Blue tagged items were 50% off on Friday! YEAH!!!!!!  Now I have something to work on in the evenings during our new cold snap. 
      
Yes, that is correct yet another cold snap! Thankfully it's only a two to three day event, but it is almost rude when you step outside after a week or better of temperatures well into the high 40's F and low 50's F.  Tonight our low is -6F and tomorrow's high is 9F.  I'd rather our temperatures stay more on an even keel, it's hard on everyone with this roller coaster we've been on. Many people are sick with a nasty respiratory virus, which seems to take a quick turn toward pneumonia. PTL, we're all in good health here, even with Mike working outdoors we not suffered even a sniffle. :o)

Mike is again at his EMT refresher course, it's been two long days of 12 hours of classroom work as well as stations of scene scenarios. He said last night, funny how when you sit for long periods of time inactive, you just seem to be exhausted by the end of the day, I told him it was refresher lag! *wink*  Today they'll do their CPR recertification as well.  Monday at his job, they start a new project and naturally this is when the weather will rearing it's ugly "bitter cold" head. Thankfully he has many layers and stays relatively warm, if he gets chilled they just warm up in the vehicle for a few minutes. Most of the time it's just his fingers that get cold, because using nailers , drills and screw guns doesn't work well with heavy winter gloves.  Hopefully this will be our last bout of bitter cold, with February just around the corner, but then again our weather has been so our of character this winter, who knows?

Good news! we've found a bull to breed Button to this June. We just couldn't swing purchasing our own bull this year, so opted to lease a bull from friends for a few months. The bull is a Galloway, a smaller breed much the same size as the Dexter's.  If Button takes in June, she'll calve in March 2012 and finally we'll have raw cow's milk again! So glad we've got that settled now onto looking into other homestead projects.

Today, we're making cabbage buns for supper, as well as for the freezer :o)   I just searched our blog and we don't have any recipe or how to pictures so............ Guess we'll make this into a tutorial and post it tomorrow*wink*