Vintage Camper, My Latest Project

Just picked this up yesterday, it came up for sale just down the road from us. Got it at a "just couldn't turn down" deal. The inside is in very good shape, other than being a little dated of course. It will sleep two adults, and two children. Has a stove, cook top, sink and refrigerator. Small bathroom, toilet only. Table with two seats, that make a smaller bed, and sofa, that turns into the larger bed. Dark paneling and cabinets, that I want to paint in a lighter color to brighten it up. The seat cushion are in perfect shape, with a large flower print on one side and solid green on the other side. Not sure what change I will make to them yet. But for now they will get a good upholster cleaning. The curtains will go and be replaced with something bright and happy, with some matching throw pillows. Lastly, I would like to repaint the outside, it looks like it was two tone color in the past, maybe even trimmed in wood grain.

                      Rock Painting

Has the rock painting, rock hiding and rock hunting craze hit your town yet? Well it has in mine. My family has been painting, hiding and finding rocks for several months now. For us it's about staying busy, getting out moving around more, being creative, and bringing smiles to peoples faces, and that includes children and adult. Here the adults are in to this as much as the children. I just hosted a rock painting for children in our area at the local farmers market. The child got to paint a rock and take it home, everything was provided for them free. I also had a lot of questions form adults that wanted to know more about rock painting, from where do you get the rocks, to the type of paint we use. The whole family can be included in rock painting. This is so much fun! Below are just a few of the many I have painted, I hope you are inspired to give it a try.

This one is made up of five rocks

Pelican

Sponge Bob (made of two rocks)

Country Scene

Country Breakfast

Whopper

Snail

             Field of  "SUNFLOWERS"

Took a ride last weekend, just sightseeing with family. We love Amish country and everything about it. Came across this beautiful field of sunflowers. Had to stop and take some pictures. What a sight to see. I thought I had planted a lot, but nothing like this.

Mine

Field of  sunflowers, as far as the eye could see

                     Pepper Jelly

My peppers are abundent in the garden right now, so it's pepper jelly time. Made one batch a few days ago. I already have enough peppers for another batch. You can find the recipe for this jelly in an older post. The only change I made is that I used four colors of peppers instead of one. This is a super simple recipe that I love. I grow peppers every year just to make this jelly. Best way to eat this jelly is to top a Ritz cracker with cream cheese, then with some pepper jelly. Yum, my family loves it.

So good!!!

                Potatoes Straight From The Garden 
                              To The Frying Pan

Fried theses potatoes as part of dinner the other night. Dug them from my garden, washed, peeled and sliced. Half Yukon Gold potatoes and half Kennebec potatoes. These potatoes where simply seasoned with salt and pepper, halfway through frying time I sliced up a Texas sweet onion, also from the garden, to add in with the potatoes. I can not tell you how good they where. My daughter even ate some, and did not mention the onion in them. That onion was the best. My husband even out some and he is not a big onion fan. This is the first year I grew Texas sweet onions, they are very sweet and did not make me tear up when I cut them.

They finshed at a beautiful golden brown

                         Deer Cam

We keep our deer camera up all year, we only check it every couple of months. We are due to check it now. I love seeing what we got pictures of and when. We have another camera that I hope to get up soon.

Close-Up!!

Raccoon

Turkeys, cool how the one is standing

Dog that I have never seen before

Bobcat, the night pictures are a little creepy

Buck

                Two More Calves

We have bought two more calves for the farm, these girls are Angus/Jersey cross. Nine weeks old and just beautiful. They are both eating grain and hay, seem to be settling in just fine. We have them both in with our goats just to give them a few days of adjustment, before turning them out with our other calf "Betsy". She is doing great, putting on some good weight.
My husband got these girls a few days ago. He was supposed the be going to buy one calf, but showed up here with two, I was really surprised. I love them both. One is more friendly than the other, but that's O.K. we our giving her lots of love, and she seems to be coming around. The friendly one is just a bit larger and lighter than the shy one. We are naming these girls "Mocha" and "Cocoa".

New home

Big bottles for big babies

Dinner

So good!

Can we have more?

"Betsy" sleeping on a pillow of hay

New friends

                   New Baby Chicks

Very busy with a lot going on. With new fencing, gardening, planting flowers and some new baby chicks. This week has been none stop. My sweet silkie chickens are first time parents this week. I have three hens and one rooster. The rooster is just around nine months old. My oldest hen is "Molly" she is a white two year old, and sweet as a kitten. The other two hens are about one year old, "Lucy" and "Ethel". Lucy is black and Ethel is charcoal grey, just as sweet. Even my rooster is a good boy, his name is "Ricky" of course, his color is porcelain. Five chicks so far four black/grey and one that looks like dad, or it may turn out white. 

My sweet "Molly"

Little "Lucy"

Miss "Ethel"

"Ricky" the dad

One of the new babies

Baby that looks like dad