Fall time clean up & Chicken chores

Morning to all, hope you are having a wonderful day. 

Today we started bringing in the outside plants that come in for wintertime. I have cut way back some of my trees that come in this year, just too large to handle in small spaces for the winter. I am just letting go of many others as they are old and leggy, need to just get new ones in spring. 

Then it is out to the chicken pen and clean up the wet soggy straw, and new plastic on the sides of the pen and then put in new dry straw which will stay that way once we get it wrapped in plastic.  Better for the hens also, lets the sunlight in and blocks the cold wind. This next week we should be getting the fencing put up so the chickens can have their room to run around and be free until dusk and time to return to the safety of the pen and then shed as night falls. 

We are gonna be egg-poor when they all start laying. We will sell fresh eggs, gonna put up a chicken sign for next year when we have extra eggs to sell. 

Pics will follow after the pen is cleaned up and the new fence is done. 

Love and Prayers, 

Margo

Happy Halloween

Hope all are enjoying the Fall of the year. Right now it is raining and has been for several days now, feels like I am walking in a water puddle when I go to feed the chickens. Before too much longer the addition to the fence we had done will have a place divided off so the chickens can run wild during the day, hopefully, they all come running back to the shed for evening meal and then get locked up for the night. Not a lot of color this year for some reason.

We got our electric bikes well, one bike and one trike. Found out from our house to the main road is all downhill, I thought it looked level, but it is all uphill to get back home. Learned just how out of shape I am in, got a lot of work to do. We ride together to the main road and then uphill all the way back, thank God they are electric. Would never have made it back otherwise. A little at a time and we will get better. Think I will also try the bike and see how that handles over the trike. 

We will have to go to where there is a flat area to ride so I can enjoy the ride better. I won't give up and will keep working on it. I do love to ride bikes always have. 

Love and Prayers, 

Margo

HAPPY     HALLOWEEN

Frosty Club Information

Hello and good morning to everyone,

This is my FROSTY

This is an invite to my new Frosty Club, you must read and understand that membership dues will be due the month of Dec. 2021, before you ask to join the club. This club is on MeWe and "private", which means you have to be invited in order to join,

The artwork for many of my designs is copyrighted by my sister (Nita T.) and her husband (Larry Twardzak). I alone have their permission to digitize her artwork. Other artwork is either free or I have paid for the designs OR I have hand-drawn them myself. 

Oct. and Nov. are free to help get us started and settled into the new group.  This group is "Private" and you can only join if invited. So if there are any of you that wish to join my new group on MeWe, send me an email. Go to the "contact tab" at top of the page and send me an email if you are interested in joining my club. 

The new group is a club and membership is $8.00 a month. I feel we can all afford that amount each month. You can cancel anytime. Designs are grouped into months and years depending on when I add them to the club. There will be between 10 - 15 designs per month + extras + Holidays. Any questions ~ Just ask away!  New designs are added each month! Lessons are given on how to digitize, Applique design sew outs, crazy quilt blocks my way, free-standing lace,  some on loom beading, some on scrolling in wood, and more to come.

You pay your dues on my website here: https://www.craftyroseangel.com  

Click on "Frosty Club" at top of the page. Read the information and use the "donate" button to pay dues thru PayPal.

Members joining after November 2021 looking for designs in the past years or months, tell me which ones you want and donate for that month and year and I will send them to you after your dues are paid for that month.  If in the event you lose your designs, if you paid for them you can always get them from me after checking records as I will have a backup of all sales. 

Designs will be emailed to you at the email address you used to join the club (make sure it is correct) and a password will be given to you if you have paid for that month. Make sure you backup passwords and designs when you get them.

Remember: Do not share any of my designs with others, instead have them send me an email so they can join in on all the fun themselves.

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My channel is up, just have not added anything just yet! But go ahead and subscribe to it if you can and be sure to like it and ring the bell after things get started. 

New things are coming!

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Love and Prayers, 

Margo

UPDATE ON LARRY

Hello to all,

 

Larry called yesterday and we talked for a while. He is doing as good as he can, sounded tired from the treatment, but sounded good. He has enough treats as he calls them. He is enjoying the ALEXA we took him, they were able to get it up and running. So I am sure he is giving that thing a workout. 

So if you can get him to answer the phone give him a call and chat with him. He will answer if he can hear the phone. 

Love and Prayers, 

Margo

Update on Larry

Hello everyone, 

This is an update about Larry. This is for my family and friends of Larry so I can keep you updated as to how he is doing. 

He called the other day and wanted an Alexa taken out to him at the manor. So Vince ran one out to him, and the people that work there got it up and running for him. 

So he is now talking to Alexa and having some fun at least more fun than without it. 

Other than that he is doing as good as he can. He is very short of breath you can hear this when he is talking on the phone. He has been that way for a while now. 

I try to call him all the time and he does not answer the phone, says he can not hear it. 

But I noticed the other day that someone is leaving him messages again and that fills the phone up to where it will not even ring, when you call it goes to "leave a message". I think I posted on Facebook to stop leaving him messages, he can not operate the phone to move through it to find the spot to check the messages or delete them. 

So again Please stop leaving him messages, he does not read them, he will not call you back, it just clogs the phone and then I can not even get ahold of him, and right now with Covid on the uprise again, we can not even visit him, leaves him in the dark so to speak. UNLESS he decides to give me a call. Which he does call now and then.

A pic from Germany days

Love and Prayers, 

Margo

EGGS Oh My

 Hello everyone, 

I am not believing this, I have been collecting eggs from Lucy almost every day now. We went to make french toast yesterday and I cracked 3 large eggs and all 3 had double yokes. I am not believing this. Taste, just great. I am the lucky one even if her name is Lucky.

I have some new pics up for the free designs Sample page. Go and take a look. Her very first eggs are also in the mix, they were so tiny, just plain cute. Here is a pic of the lovely eggs. Two eggs are in the large bowl and one in the small bowl. 

Lucky's eggs--3 double yokes

We are getting ready to enlarge their free-roam area, cause my next batch of little ones are getting large enough to add to the other 7 hens. That will be a total of 13 hens and 2 keets we hope, not sure just yet, there might be a rooster in the batch. We have the room for them to be happy and free. I just love having chickens running around the yard. 

Love and Prayers, 

Margo

Update on Larry

Morning all, 

Chatted with Larry yesterday on phone. He is doing fine, wanting to come home for a few hours, but Rose Wood Manor has once again closed the doors to unnecessary people coming and going. So that is put off for a while. Other than that Larry sounds good and seems to be in good spirits. He said his phone is not ringing, so we have to go there and get the phone and see what is going on with it. 

We can see him from the window outside of the building, but he is not sitting where he can see outside that well, and then you can't talk back and forth. What a mess, this Covid is for everyone. 

Larry

Love and Prayers, 

Margo

Lucky's first eggs

Morning to all, 

Yesterday when we went out to take our chickens outside I found 2 not 1, but 2 eggs that Lucky (our survival hen) laid last night. She stepped on one and broke it, the other one was just fine but, they were half the size of a normal egg. Don't think I have heard of a hen laying 2 eggs at a time. But she did. 

Lucky's First Egg

 

Back in Ohio our first egg from our hens was laid without the shell, a perfect egg just laying in the nest box. and here in W.V., she laid two eggs. Not sure I have heard about that happening before.

Now have to wait on 12 more hens to start laying some time in the spring or early summer. That is IF they are all hens, ya never know. And the two guineas what if they are M or F, have to wait and see.

Hope you all have a great day.

Love and Prayers, 

Margo