Storm mostly over

Well, it looks like me made it through hurricane Sandy! My lord she was on the rag wasn't she? OK, so that wasn't the nicest thing to say, but in all honesty that's what it seemed like. I did some sewing, we watched some movies, and did some reading. So the boredom of staying inside, and not being able to go out was over come. I'm glad that its not raining right now though, Sam and Jasper really needed the time outside to get all of that pent up energy out of their system. If any of you readers have ever had a husky, you know, they are truly full of it!

I still have more sewing to get done, but I'm in the homestretch of getting that done, and then soon, so very soon, I will be able to get everything posted on etsy. I'm going to have quite the full store. Now, if everything sells, I will be the happiest girl in the world!!!

We have the air mattress set up here in the living room. We figured that way if the power went out we could close off the back part of the house, and keep the heat in one area. We have all kinds of camp heaters and stoves that we got out, and got ready.

My worm farm is doing great! They are eating, and pooping like mad. I need to get some more worms in there though. Its not that I'm impatient, its more that I really want this to pay off.
I haven't came up with a name for my farm yet, but I'm working on it. Nothing sounds just right yet. I want it to sound really good considering I'm planning on having tshirts made up. Once I sell my first batch of anything, that's when I'm going to have the tshirts made up. (I'm so excited!!!!)

Anyways, that's my ramblings for the day!!!

Storm Prep

I went out today, and got some dog food. I don't have to worry about us so much, but I do have to worry about the dogs!!! Especially Nikki. I worry more about her than any of my pups. Poor old girl.
Right now she's sleeping on her big round pillow, looking happy as can be!!!

I've been making sure that we have buckets of water to flush the toilet, and of course we have a camp stove, and a stove top coffee maker, that's most important there...

Hopefully, this storm doesn't hit as hard as everybody is thinking. But like somebody else pointed out, at least  its not hot and humid out. Keeping warm is easier than trying to cool off.

storm coming

I wont have to buy toilet paper for a while.....

Sewing, Crocheting, and Worm Farming

Well, I'm back to working on getting those adorable little dresses sewn to sell on Etsy. The quilting class I took put me off of sewing for a while, but I'm back on track, and over the last 2 days, have spent several hours on getting them sewn. I must say, its been nice to be kind of busy.

I came up with a fun idea for my scrap fabric. I'm going to make rag dolls out of the scraps, and crochet little dresses or sweaters for them to wear. Then I'll pick a color out of the fabric that I made their body out of to do their hair. I really think they will be kind of cute. I'm not quite sure how much I will charge for them yet. I think it depends on how long it takes me to make each doll. I'll decide from that.

The worm farm, at this point in time really isn't taking up much time at all. I Just have to check them once a day to make sure that everything isn't drying out, if it is, I take my little spray bottle, and add some moisture to it, put the lid back on and go. I don't have enough worms yet for them to be eating too fast, so I may only be feeding them once a week, or less often than that for now.

Its supposed to get up to 79 today...wow, I love this crazy fall weather!!! Sam and Jasper are outside right now while its still cool. I went ahead and switched the heat off so that it doesn't get hot in here today. I'm hoping not to have to turn the AC on. I think we can live without it for today.

Frank is off until Weds!!! Hooray, its what I like to call a second chance Vacation. I'm hoping he doesn't get called in to do runs to awfully much, but I guess we will see.

I have to say, its been really sucky only having one car. I haven't been able to do my crochet stuff with Lindsey because of all of the running back and forth and to different places. I really miss it. We have some great talks and laughs. I'm hoping we get the other car back soon so that we can start some other projects!!!! (like the dog stockings!!!)

Worm Farming

Well, we did it! We got our worm farm up and going...its kind of exciting, but at the moment we are in the beginning stages, kind of like those people who do chicken farming, they start out with a couple of chickens and a rooster, and then they let them multiply...well that's us.  In about a year, we will have, according to my math skills, and I did the numbers low...we will have roughly a half million worms!!!! HOLY CRAP THAT'S A LOT OF WORMS!!!

We plan on selling fishing bait. I would like to get a contract to supply to one of the bigger fishing bait companies, but my hubby wants to sell locally. I guess that's how we should start in all honestly.

A mature worm, lays an egg every 7 days.  Those eggs hatch every 3-4 weeks, and contain between 3-7 baby worms. So, in about a month, we will have eggs hatching on a weekly basis. My plan is to put all of the money we make into an account until we can just outright buy an out building. I'm thinking I would like one of those big steel ones they advertise.  Starting our own business is exciting and scary all at the same time!!!  The exciting awesome part is, if it actually takes off, and we can get bills paid off, and the stuff done to the house, we may be able to adopt sooner!!!! (hell yeah!!!)

Lots and loss of stuff

What a busy day we had today. First Frank and I got some apple sauce made. One of the hats didn't fill up sill the way, so I'm going to use that to make an applesauce cake tomorrow.

Then we got our red wigglers today!!! Yes, they are all alive, at least for now. We have them all set up, with some food and everything. And now, best of all, once they really start eating..we will start getting some of that most wonderful worm poop.

And finally, I finished up that baby sweater pattern I was working on, and have it in my special completion folder. That's where I put them when they are ready to be tested, and then typed, and all the stuff that comes before I post the pattern. Exciting day!!!

Frank and I wound the evening down witha movie. We watched the tooth fairy...it was hilarious.

Now were going to kick back and watch another movie. Unfortunately, even though were paying money for satellite, there us never anything on.

Good Morning

So thankfully this week is finally winding down. Its been a long hard week. I know that Frank can't help it, but his job sometimes makes it hard on everybody at home. But, now that the weekend is coming up we can all breathe a collective sigh of relief.

On today's agenda is a list of things to get done. Sometimes I do best if I write myself a list of things to do. Its not a long list, but I'll get way more done with it! LOL

I do have some plans to get some more crocheting done today as well. I want to finish my current crochet pattern I've been writing, so that hopefully by Monday I'll be ready to start the final process of getting them posted. YAY FUN!

That's about it from this funny farm!!!!