The puppy is doing pretty good. He has made himself right at home here. He and Lucky have be come playmates. She seems to really enjoy playing with him. And he does not seem to mind that she towers over her. When we first brought him home she kept trying to pick him up like he was one of her puppies.

The grapes are just about ready to pick. Guess we will be making jelly soon again.

The garden is such a mess. I spent an hour and a half yesterday weeding. Im going to go back out there today and do some more. I'm sure its a muddy mess as it rained last night. Everytime I weed it rains that is how it got in the mess it is!

I worked a little on Merry Kissmoose yesterday. He is coming along nicely. I think Mike will really like him. His sign originally said Merry Mooseness, but Mike has a christmas nic for msn zone MerryKissmoose so Im changing it for him.

Well this weekend we did a lot of jelly and jam making. 3 batches of Black Cherry Jam, 1 batch kiwi jelly, 2 batches Cranberry Jelly, 1 batch blue raspberry jelly, 2 batches Orange Marmalade, 1 batch apricot jelly, 1 batch peach jam, 1 batch tropical blend jelly, 1 batch apple jelly, 1 batch cinnamon apple jelly. I think that was all. Once the Grapes are ripe we will be making 2 batches of grape jelly.

I did not get much stitching done this weekend tho.

We picked up the black Male puppy from Aries's first studding expierence. He was born on July 5, 2004. He is very sweet and seems to be smart. So we are back to 3 to sell!

Sold another puppy on Sunday. We went fishing Sunday evening. Was a beautiful spot near some land we are trying to see about buying to build a new house on. Yesterday we canned Black Plum Jam and Red Plum Jam. They are Yummy. Today I worked on Joyus Noel for a littley while and frogged out what I had done on Merry Kissmoose. Watched Leauge of Extrodinary Gentleman. Was good but not what I thought it was going to be. Other than that not much the last couple days. Cleaning and cleaned out the refridgerator.

Let's see.. Sold a puppy today. Yea!

I started on Merry Mooseness last night and today I realized I missed an entire hump on his antlers so I have to frog out what I did already. Charted the sign for Merry Kissmoose instead. Mike has a nic on the zone for at christmas time... KissMoose so I changed it for him :) We set up the tent in the field out back and built a fire pit. Since we didnt get to go camping this weekend doing out back instead. Did not get any stitching done today the bit I did I have to frog so.

Well yesterday I was running around so much trying to get ready for our camping trip I didnt have time to write. I got to work a little on Not A Creature Was stirring otherwise I was running to about 5 different stores and packing stuff.

Today I went to the laundry mat and washed our sleeping bags something i was going to do yesterday and ran out of time. While I was waiting for them to wash and dry I finished Not A Creature Was Stirring. It was a fun ornament to stich. Now I have to decide what to do as my 3rd one I wanted to get done as a goal for this month. Kind of a toss up between Merry Mooseness or a pretty glass ornament looking one.

We have decided not to go camping. The kid has football practice and doesnt want to miss it and its too much work to just go for basically 1 1/2 days then. So we will just do some day trips fishing and stuff and get some stuff done around the house.

Had a couple of calls today about puppies. Really wish we could sell a couple!

August 11, 2004

This morning I worked on Dragon Dreams "Not A Creature Was Stirring" from the JCS ornament issue I forget what year. Im really enjoying working on ornaments right now. I finished Just Nan's Christmas Butterfly earlier this week. I love how it turned out. The colors are beautiful. I really enjoyed learning to can on sunday. We spent saturday morning picking elderberries and getting them off the stems and turned into juice. Sunday we made Elderberry Jelly 10 - 12oz cans; 11 - 8 oz; 6 & 1/2 pints of syrup and 2 gallons of juice. I can't wait to can more stuff.