Time flies

Wow, today just flew by. We went to tour two farms to get ideas for our barn as we want to eventually change the parlor system as herding the animals in 5 at a time takes a long time... and extra labour. If we get a coralling system it will diminish time by probably half, especially if we double the size of our parlor. Only way to do that is build... that will wait a few years. I was tired when I got home at 3:30pm so I didn't do anything and it's 7 already. Oops

Sunday Julie had her baby! A little boy. They named him John Edward (not sure of the spelling) and I he was over 7 lbs (don't remember the oz). I haven't seen him yet, but was told he's a little cutie!

Yesturday I did a pile of work. I cleaned the house and did all the laundry, and the spring cleaning bit I did was all the dusting... everything... under books and dvds, tv, computer, everything. I also flipped the mattress and washed the pillows and comforter. More on that later... I made banana muffins... which also has a funny story...lol. I couldn't find the baking powder in the recipe. I knew it was there, but I couldn't find it. So, I didn't put it in. They turned out so much flatter than normal (1/2 the size) and so I checked the recipe again, and there it was. Chuck still likes them though. Lol. Good with ice cream. I had a chiropractic appointment at 3 and with that I picked up my partylite (so yeah, for all who ordered, it's in now!). I put away my candles (two items didn't come in... one of mine and one of my mother-in-law's). I couldn't seperate the order out according to who ordered what because I didn't have the slips with it... they came today... so I did that this morning before the tours. I also worked on my mural yesturday... I thought I was done till this morning when I noticed two little details I forgot which will take all of 20minutes to do. Then I'll post pics! Yippee! I wiped down all the walls in that room today as they needed it (hand prints from painting and all that).

Ah yes... the story with the bedding. We bought this bedding in October. Paid $200 for it which was a lot to me, even though it was a bed in a bag and absolutely lovely. Well, I usually wash the comforter twice a year, so I threw it in the wash as the directions said... and it ripped. It was on the underside near the foot of the bed, so I was unhappy but not too upset as I can sew it up, which I did when it finally dried. When we put it on the bed however, we saw to our dismay that the dark brown color bled not only into the white, but badly into the backside of the blanket (that itself wasn't as much of a problem for me as the white). Then the dark brown also had funny white running lines in it. I tried to wash them out again to no avail. Either it's soap (which didn't make sense as I didn't add too much to begin with) or it's where the color came from. Sigh. That's when I got upset. Chuck called the company we bought from and they said to bring it all back with the reciept and we'd get a Home Outfitters card with that credit on it. Which is so nice. So, we're back to our old bedding. I now need to sew the one seam shut. What bothers me is that I REALLY liked this set. Really. They don't sell it anymore. Now we need to find something else. If it was just the rip (ok... the three rips), or just the color on the backside, I'd just say let's leave it. It's just so many things went wrong all at once.

Anyway, I've gotta go make food. Then I want to finish the mural... yippee! :)