Recent Cards I've Made

A little bit of a rain delay this morning.  We got .04" and it quit.  Just enough to make the ground too sticky to do anything right now, but the sun is trying to come out.  

There are a ton of people we know with Oct. birthdays, a friend  got married this past weekend and friends had a baby so I've had several cards to make lately.  Thought I'd share them here.
 

wedding card - the wedding colors were lavender and purple

baby card - cute popping out of the pumpkin!

birthday card

I still have another birthday and congrats to Grandma and Grandpa to make.

All products used are Stampin' Up!  Order from me 24/7 through my web site above (www.cindykemna.stampinup.net) or contact me to order for you.   The main catalog and holiday catalogs can be seen online on my web site.

Here We Go!

Sunrise from the kitchen window.

I love watching for pretty sunrises and sunsets!  Yesterday was our first day of combining this season and it started off with a really nice sunrise.  Our alarm goes off at 6:00 during Harvest.  We're spoiled and don't like waking up when it's dark, but if I get to see a sunrise like this, it makes it worth getting up early.

We started in a field of corn that's about 94 acres.  It's completely done as of today, and we've moved to the next one across the road.   With the wet spring we had, most of the crops got planted late.  It's unusual to be combining corn before the beans but the beans are just not ready yet.  The elevator is closing at 6:00 so we can only work after that until our semis and grain cart are full.  The guys take the trucks to the elevator in the morning when it opens at 7 a.m. and then we can get started again.  

The ripping job that I do after the combining is done can usually be done about any time night or day.  Last night I stayed out until about 9:00.  I don't like being out there after dark much.  It's hard to see what you're doing, and I don't like walking to the vehicle in the dark (yep, I have a flashlight).  So far (knock on wood) things are going much better for me this season.  I'm not nervous any more (except driving on the road), and I can even back up!   My corners still need some work.  Maybe by the time we're done this year . . .

Combine almost full - the corn is peaking out of the top.

  
I got caught up with ripping so was off this afternoon.  I did a couple blog posts and scheduled them to post in the next few days.  Thanks for reading.

Fun Day at the Apple Orchard

This past weekend we had perfect Fall weather.  I babysat Diane's girls Sat. so it seemed like a great day to take them to the apple orchard at Ft. Dodge.  A couple of years ago they redid their outside play area for kids and it's now called the Back 40 Playground.  It's great!  So many fun things to do.  The girls liked this huge pillow like thing that looks like a silage pile that you take your shoes off and bounce on.  I just had to keep laughing watching everybody on this thing, especially Camry.  She was one of the smallest kids on it and kept getting bounced all over but she was constantly smiling and laughing and going back for more. 

the cow train

Their next favorite thing was the cow train.  It was a short but fast ride.  The sign said kids under 4 had to ride with an adult but later we found out they didn't enforce that. 

these guys know each other - cute!

this was a great slide made out of tile

made it to the top of Tire Mountain

They really loved the corn pile too.

Yep, that was me - "on the go"! 

This was my first post with pictures from the new laptop.  This seems to have fixed the problem of not being able to enlarge the pictures when you click on them.

It's Ready and Waiting

 

The combine is ready and waiting!  Tim and Bill have been checking tires and everything else on all of the equipment.  We've still only had two rains this summer plus a tenth and a half Thursday.  The corn and beans are turning - later than usual due to all the rain we had in the spring and getting everything planted late.

Pretty sunrise I watched from the kitchen window recently. 

Large Gopher at Work??

A week or so ago Bill was doing a bunch of digging so he could hook up the water line to the shed.  Had to dig down to the house basement floor to hook into the water line and then over to the water line going to the shed.  Making a nice mess of our side yard again.  Check out the one picture when he's down in the trench and it looks like the wall is going to cave in on him.  Tim was there to call 911 if it did!  

  

Fun with our Niece & Nephew

Recently Bill's mom had a couple of the grandkids at her house for a few days so Bill had a little shadow most of the time - one who asks LOTS of questions!   I didn't see him except for a couple of minutes one day so no pictures, but one of the days Peggy was going to Bible Study so I asked if Taylor would like to come hang out with me and she said yes.  

We walked down to the creek and across it and threw rocks in it and she waded in it.  We looked at Uncle Bill's shed.  I asked if she wanted to bake something and she requested that we make peanut butter fudge.  Luckily I had Aunt Jan's recipe that she makes in an electric skillet that I knew was easy and good so we made that.  We went downstairs and looked at all the cards and stuff.  And then ran out of time.   I'm sure her parents would probably let me borrow her most any time!  

The next day the three of us went to "coffee" at the library to hear the program which was Luke Dahl from our town talking about and showing pictures of his service as medical personnel on a Blackhawk helicopter in Afghanistan.  Very interesting.

stirring peanut butter fudge

Did you all see the Blue Moon again a couple of weeks ago?  Always fun to watch it rise.  Pictures just don't do it justice - at least with my camera.  

Blue Moon rising behind our house

I've caught a few beautiful sunsets this summer.  Here's one:

sunset from the front of our house