Another good day

Happy, happy day I just got another order on the embroidery machine (small order) but that's better than nothing! Since I had to quit my job a while back to be my mom's care giver (that I love), it gets kinda hard sometimes to live on one paycheck (bills stay the same) when we have always had two paychecks and still try to keep with my 10 year plan! My embroidery machine has been a small way for me to pick up some extra income. Its odd how the smallest things seem to bring on the best feelings in this life we chose to live! If this was before I quit my job a small order would not have been exciting it would have actually been a little depressing. I also did not have time to make and donate items, I talked about wanting to (a lot) but that was as far as it got. I started making and donating items in 2010 and so far this year I have made 6 lap blankets for the State Patrol and 18 pillows and 6 teddy bears for the children's hospital :) Cant wait though for the yard sales to start I am running low on material and since I purchase most of my material at yard sales I am sooo glad they will start up next month! A lot of the material I have in the past lucked out and found new but I still wash, dry and iron every item before turning them into lap blankets, teddy bears etc. Also another plus has been (as far as my surroundings go) in the past I had never really paid a lot of attention to except going to and from work, life was just to hectic! I realize now how we were just going thru the motions, it saddens me to now realize the small things that I would have thought unimportant, like setting a clothes line or hanging clothes to dry in the house during the winter to save on the electric bill or planting seeds and watching them grow...I was tickled pink when hubby set my clothes line and I no longer worry if company stops by and I have clothes hanging in the house to dry in the winter! :)  in the past so many things would have been a "why bother" or I don't have time anyway and living without a clothes dryer since 2009 never would have happened before! I could go on and on with the changes in my life (all good!) I guess that's a little of "with age comes wisdom" nothing is taken for granted anymore with us, our life together, our family and our health! If only we could back track (knowing what we know now) how different things would have been! I guess though better late than never! Since my mind is on this track this morning if I had to kinda sum things up in a nut shell, I work harder (for less pay) have more fun doing it and still have time to smell the flowers, or most of the time grow them! Thank God for the small things in our lives  :)

This is Purty one of our spoilt chickens, she has taken to flying up and landing on my shoulder every morning and every evening while I am bottle feeding the baby calf. :) Life sure is fun when your  living on a farm!

Brother PR 600 it keeps on ticking :)

I have been so busy the last four days I have not even had time to blog! I received a phone call from one of my very good customers,  he had forgotten to call and order some patches from me (last month). The meeting is only six days away and he was hopping I could still get them done.....so everything the last four days (except the family and animals) was put on the back burner and drum roll please.......I got them finished today and with an overnight Monday he should have them by Tuesday the day before the meeting! :) I usually would not try to get this big of an order out so quick (stress) but I have done lot of work for these customers since I picked them up in 2004 (they have 5 states) and this is the first time it has happened. While I was working on the order it dawned on me, I have had this machine since 2003 and have put a lot of stitches on it. The only repairs that have been done were minor and also its yearly service, so I decided to take a look at my stitch count. I have put 1,332,445,4 stitches on this machine since 2003 and 4,692 hours run time! I had no idea I had done that many stitches, I guess that is why when I take it in for its yearly service the last few times the service department makes a comment about my old machine! :) They are very expensive so I hope it keeps on ticking for another (at least) 5 years. Anyway we had a major problem with Shirley (one of the little goats) tonight I promise to blog about it tomorrow (if she is okay) gotta go I need take care of her again.