Pea Fowl

We went over to visit our daughter last night and to play with the pea babies. 

First we had to visit with the adult pea fowl in the pens.  

This video shows her hand feeding her blue male, Gadget, and one of her females, Sola.  

Jocelyn the turkey got into the feeding too.  

She is one of my favorite birds.  

She always comes up to me, especially if I have dandelion heads, her favorite!

You can see Gadget here and her rooster, Tanner.

We saw Stan and Artemis too but I forgot to get photos of them in the barn.

Gadget is not old enough to have a train yet, but her other male, Orion has his.

Isn't he gorgeous?

He is a purple peacock.

Just look at those gorgeous colors!

His eye feathers are so amazing.  I see a quilt in this.  Purple, teal and gray.

Watch Orion shake his tail feathers!

Lastly we played with babies!

Photos are orange due to the heat lamps in the room.  

They are seriously the cutest things in the world!

Maybe I need to plan a purple quilt?

Maybe I already am...

~XOP~

Productive Weekend

This past weekend I determined that I needed to get a lot of things I had promised, finished.  

Let me back up a minute though.   

On my way home from work on Friday I saw the neatest clouds.  

It looked like rain but in only a specific spot. 

 Take a look.

Friday night I started on this heart block for someone that requested them for charity.

 It is paper pieced and so somewhat time consuming, 

but I love the heart and wanted to try my hand at one.  

The request was for rainbow on either low volume white or black.  

I opted for white.

I had made and mailed my Bee blocks for April but somehow they got lost in the mail, so on Friday night I made a second set.

 On Saturday it was cold and rainy so I decided to sew.  

I usually clean on Saturdays but things were in pretty good shape so 

I decided to knock out as many "have to" projects as I could.  

I finished the whole heart!  It is so pretty!!  I used Moda dots for all the colorful fabrics.

Of course I had a kitty helper.

Next up was a set of cat faces for another charity donation.  

A woman I know from IG had her daughter pass away from the FLU.  

She was in kindergarden.  

That just broke my heart.  I can NOT even imagine what she and her family must be going through.  She wants to make a quilt for every child in her daughter's class to remind them all of Emma 

(who loved cats).  

So I made 2 cat faces to mail off to her on Saturday too.

I had to run after the mail truck to get these three things out in the mail on Saturday!  

Running, for me, is not a pretty sight, but I did it anyway and successfully sent all three out.

Then I saw this fabric sitting near the machine and decided I needed to make this chenille blanket.  

I had all the flannel set next to it so that got this out of the room! 

 I managed to get all the stitching on one side finished on Saturday.

It was night so the colors are not very true.  

I finished all the sewing, cutting, squaring up and binding.  

It is now ready for the wash. 

If you want to make a chenille blanket, go to my tutorial page for step-by-step directions.  

They are pretty easy and make GREAT baby gifts.

Sunday I finished the chenille, as I said above, then we went out to the farm for a visit.  

Hubby wanted to pick up his boat and take the cover off the camper. 

 I played with the birds. 

 Here is Orion, my daughter's purple peacock.  Isn't he gorgeous??

I couldn't get close enough to get a good shot of his eye feathers, 

but you can sort of see the centers are purple!  

He is a beauty for sure.

She also had LOTS of chicken and pea babies.  

The little black one closest to the dish is a Genetic Hackle chicken the other 3 are pea babies

They are super nosey even as babies.

  I'm not sure if you can see it but the peas all hatched very recently and 

still have their egg tooth on their beaks!!  

It's the little bump on the top of the beak.

There is not much cuter than the baby peas.  They have such BIG eyes.

Although, I have to say, Lenore is super unimpressed by it all.  

Just more NOISY birds in the house as far as she is concerned!  

She always looks grumpy but she is such a sweetie.  

She never stops purring the whole time I am there and she is super LOUD!

Sorry this was so LONG, but a lot was happening at my house.

I also started cutting out the green squares for my MSU quilt.

I have a lot more to cut but I'll get there, eventually.

How was your weekend?

~XOP~

WIPs With Friends

It has been such a busy week!  I am working on a quilt for our priest.  

Here are some progress shots.

(It was late)

I have to sew it together yet.

Additionally we had some baby pea chicks hatch out!

Our daughter took us to the Belleville Strawberry Festival on Sunday.  

So much fun!

See, there is even "fun" in the name of the slide!

I was good and did not get any, but Elephant Ears are my favorite fair food! 

 Although the GIGANTIC ribbon of potato chips loaded with goodies looked amazing!

As we were leaving the fair I spotted an animal rescue booth so I stopped.  

I have been trying to find one to volunteer at.  

I got some info from them and then asked them if they had any cats

 (cuz you know I am down 4, LOL). 

 Oh, why yes they did.  They said OVER 100!!!  And the best part?  

They had some right around the corner. 

 So you know I had to go and check it out. 

 I signaled to my husband and daughter and ran over to the tent of kittens. 

 Long story short, we are picking our 2 new kittens up tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

Both are long hair tabbies. 

 One is red and one is brown.  Both are boys.

We are trying to come up with names.  

We have chosen two names but we will see when we get there if they really end up with those so I will introduce them to you tomorrow.  

The rescue is  Friends of Michigan Animal Rescue.

I. Can. Not. WAIT!!!

OK so what are you working on 

(I have a feeling it will take me time to get back into my sewing room with new babies in the house).

I am linking up with Sew Fresh Quilts and you can link up here and share what you are working on! The link will close tomorrow at 10am.

~XOP~

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WIPs With Friends

I have a very brief minute to make this post.  

I will be out for the rest of the week and part of next week for my daughter's wedding.

I stopped out to her farm to visit her last weekend because her oldest peacock, Blu hurt his leg. 

 He had an ankle issue and had surgery when he was young.  

It never really healed well and he pretty much stands on one foot all the time.  

It was bound to happen that something would happen to his other foot/leg.  

She has to take him to the vet today and hopefully we will know more soon.  

He is the very first peacock that she hatched out from an egg.  I

t was while she was living in our home.  Both he and his sister and the turkey Jocelyn. 

 Osirius has passed away but Blu and Jo are still alive and kicking.  

Hopefully it is just a strain and not a slipped tendon, but we should know later today.  

He is such a pretty boy! 

 I am sure you have seen lots of photos of him thoughout the years, 

but just in case these are his last few days I wanted a few more.

Daughter was happy that he has fathered so many babies and that she still has some.  

She will keep one or two if something is seriously wrong with him. 

 She said one had Osirius's face and took me into the barn to see.  

This is what I saw. 

 It was quite dark and I thought it was three peafowl but no, it was a peafowl sandwich with a peafowl wanna be in the middle!  

As soon as I saw the three of them I knew immediately it was the bird on the far right.  

His face looks just like Osirius's did.

So now on to my WIP.  Still the Hallowedding quilt.  Now it will have a haunted house!

I am loving how this came out!

As I said, I will be on a short break until after the wedding, but please do link up.

Link up here and 

tell us all what YOU have been working on too!  

You should know the drill by now.  

Click on the blue "inlinkz" button to add your link.  

If you are only on Instagram use the #wipswithfriends.

~XOP~

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 Remember that if you do post in the link up here

 you should post a link back to this post on your own blog too.

So now it's your turn to share what you are working on.  

Please use the linky to link up and share that you linked up to WIPs With Friends on your blog too.  If using Instagram please use the hashtag

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We can't wait to see what you are working on!

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Baby Pea Fowl

Yes it is that time of year again.  

We seem to have a million things hatching out over at Long Feather Acre.  

My daughter set some pea eggs in her incubator and most of them have hatched!  

I think they have all been sold already too.  

For the minute we have babies though and they are freaking adorable!

As you can see they are much larger then the chickens that hatched at a similar time.

This little one is only a few seconds after hatching.  Not quite as adorable!  LOL

My daughter bought a webcam and had it in with the chicks. 

 It was fun to watch them. 

 It is currently not operating (she turns it on when she is not using her computer).  

Here is the link for later though

 ustre.am/PhKx

I hope you are having a wonderful week!

~XOP~