Home Sweet Home and more

Pamela was babysitting Lilley while I was at retreat. She sends me pictures of Lilley everyday while I was gone.  Lilley is behind her baby Sophie. No telling where Brianna was. I picked Lilley up while Pamela was at work. I fed the girls before I left and sent them outside to take care of their business.
She's gonna be later than usual getting home.
Brianna is finally getting to run loose in the house with Sophie. One evening Pamela was really late and Brianna got a little bored and chewed on the window sills by the front door. She could have been mad at Pammy for getting home so late or just bored waiting. That'll teach Pamela for making her babies wait but Brianna is still pup like and growing up. 

Got home from Quilt Retreat that evening (10/10) and David was home waiting on me.

We got up Friday to run errands. As we drove down the road our neighbors cow were all lined up facing the fence.

I guess they were keeping each other warm. The cool wind was coming out of the North and they were facing South. Never seen this before.


We headed in to Rockdale to pick up David's truck from a repair shop that was recommended to us. Looks like they fixed the problem and it cost 75% less we expected. Then he treated me to Breakfast. He's such a sweetie.

I got home first and saw Stormy our youngest bull calf inside the hay ring standing on top of the bail of hay.
He's done this more than once. One day he's gonna get stuck in there and he's not gonna be happy.  LoL. He's finally starting to put some weight on. He's been so little for so long.






Saturday (10/12) mid day we headed into Cameron to the Steak Stein and Wine festival.

We now know we need to get there closer to 10 am to get in on the steak tasting part of it. We did get to check out a new Bistro opening up on Main (Hwy 77) in Cameron.  They served us a glass of wine and they had a couple of sample desserts for us to try. They provided a tour of the place and background info on all the work they did on it. They hope to provide live music sometimes.
Next we drove a few blocks down to the actual festival and parked in front of the old courthouse.



I love small towns. You don't fight the crowds, love the old architecture, and the history. We went through the vendor booths but actually didn't spend anything and next we tried out 2 of the 3 wine booths out.  Some old trucks and cars started lining up. David went to check out the cars and I went into the museum to check out the quilts on display.




Had a hard time taking good pictures. The lighting in the museum washed out the quilt colors.
But you can get the idea.

They had this quilt set up on a quilting frame. Looks like several ladies might have been hand quilting on it before I got there or maybe it was just set up to look like they had been working on it.  Again sorry for the quality of the photos.
 















This quilt was very scrappy. It had Loralie sewing ladies, UT, Western, Sports and many other fabrics were used as you kinda see.
Some of the quilts look like they were never used and newer but then some looked like they were older. I didn't touch the quilts to find a label and there was no one there with white gloves to turn them.

 
     This autograph quilt was pretty.                           Love the Sue Bonnet Sue.

And this farm quilt was pretty cool.






After  I finished looking around I went outside to find David. David suggested we go over to take a picture in front of the 44 Farms truck.  We keep hoping to catch their meat market open just outside of Cameron and try out their meat selection. Then I guess if we'd got to this event before one we might have gotten to taste some. oops.

Nice afternoon.

 Had to laugh at the pictures taken at the groomers of Sophie and Bri. Lilley didn't go this time. The girls went camping. LOL That's the back drop for the month. Cute. Sophie is a pillow princess so a camping trip would be unlikely for her but Brianna loves the outside. She's all about running wide open and checking everything out when she's at the Rock'n K.

I seem to have started a new collection on accident..... Tea Towels. Several have been given to me and David when we moved to the farm and a couple I bought and one of my Quilt retreat gals. I can't bear taking them down so I just display them on my oven doors and the fridge door. I realize one day I'll have to many and will have take some down or find a new spot to display. They've got some great sayings on them that totally reflect me/us.

     

About the middle of October I notice this yellow patch of flowers in the pasture just outside the yard. I don't remember seeing them before there they were.  They were really bright and pretty. No cows in the back pasture to eat them.

 When I walked back to the house Jerry came up to the fence and stuck his head through the gate for some attention and if he's lucky I have carrots.  And he was in luck
 


Check out this little cutie. This is my great nephew Preston. He just celebrate his first birthday.  He's grown. I saw him on our trip to Missouri in May and he was still so little.

 David and I made a day trip to Austin to check out the plant sale at Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. We thought it was gonna be cool so we wore long pants. Dang we needed shorts or for me Capri's. It got warm in a hurry.  Most of the plants were non-flowering or just not flowering. David bought a small Oak Tree and some small potted plants. Had to fit in the 4-runner.  Took quick selfie on one of the paths.


From Austin we stopped at the Rockdale Rodeo to see what it was all about.. It was close to maybe 5ish and the vendors and quilt exhibit was already packing up and closing down. Next year we'll know better. My neighbors little girl was showing rabbits so we went to look at all the show animals and found Kate's Bunnies. There was lots of bunnies and she came in 13th and in the end someone bought them. Didn't realize another neighbor's son Garrett had the Reserve Champion Lamb, and her daughter got 2nd with her lamb and 7th with her heifers and ran barrels and made it back to the next night  won the youth with a smoking run. Country Living is grand.  Love small town events I tell ya. It was active but it was a comfortable size crow. 

 If we could have convinced David to relax the next day we would have had him join Pamela and I as we headed towards Temple to 3 wineries. One of them is only open on certain dates and 10/20 was one of them. So off we went.
Our first stop was the Dancing Bee just outside Rogers.  We had been there before but we stopped this time since it was on the way to 2 of them that we hadn't been too.
The young lady serving us was fun and informative.












We drove 12 miles down the road to the next place.  The Moose & Goose isn't always open.  You have to look at their website to determine when that is. It's out in the country side. It's pretty out there. They had a couple of dogs who acted like the official greeters. And Kittens provided entertainment  while we sat inside and tasted the wines.

Cheers to a pretty day for an outing.





We drove another few miles down the road to the 3 Texans. Out in the middle of the country side again. A pretty setting and some tasty wine.



First thing you see as you walk into the building is this sign. Made me laugh and think "Yep that's right"

While paying our bill I was walking around the shop and found the ... Wine-opoly Board Game!  Just a couple of days early my former neighbor Deborah W. tagged me on FB with the caption "Not sure why this made me think of you".  LOL.  No Clue..  

 Time to go home.  Wine Tasting Run is over.

 
A couple days later I was driving home from LaGrange and finally saw these cows again. Check out those horns. They are huge.  I think they are a breed called Watusi.

And then this poor gal can hardly hold her head up while eating grass. I'm easily amused while driving down the road. They're actually a pretty cow.

 My next blog will feature this young couple. The girl is my Godchild Michelle and she recently married Matt. So happy for her. They just got they're marriage license in this picture and 2 days after they'd be getting married.






So until then....Whatever things are true, just, pure, lovely.  If there be any praise. Think on these things.” Philippians 4:8