Friends, pictures, and pictures of friends. :)

To start this post out, I'll post a picture of one of my recent sewing projects... One of my coworkers gave me a brand new skirt she'd bought but then decided she didn't have anything to wear with it and thought I might like it. I did like it, very much, except that it was a little too short for my comfort, so I dug in my sewing pile to see what I could do to improve the situation. I found a skirt that I'd bought a while back at a second hand store that had had a slit in it. When I sewed the slit closed, I could no longer walk comfortably in the skirt, so there it sat. Now, however, I had just what I needed to make my new skirt wearable. I combined the 2 skirts and here is the end result: (I also made the bows out of extra fabric from the shorter skirt, the one bow that's laying on the brown shirt is a hair-bow I made and sewed onto a hair clip.)
Here's a picture of my little citrus trees: I lugged them inside tonight, as it felt pretty cold out when Jacob and I did chores this evening!

The other day, when Jacob and I were hauling in garden produce, we discovered 2 watermelons I did not realize had even grown! The large melon grew right beside one of the greenhouse posts, which is why it has a nice big crease in the side of it.

This afternoon, our friends, the Geigers came (actually, just a few of them came) to get some more Organic corn and oats for their chickens. They are trading us several chickens for the grain, so we are all happy!

I was thrilled when I heard that my dear friend, Miranda would be able to come along this time!!!!! She helped me in the kitchen for a while when the others were working on the grain outside. It's been SO long since we've seen each other (half a year, I believe), so it was such a treat to have a couple hours to visit with Miranda and her family!

Jacob and Josiah---and some remaining fruit pizza. :)

I had fun this evening playing in my new music book, "Jane Austen's World" which arrived in the mail today! The melodies are so beautiful.......

Well, Dad and Andrew will be pulling in the yard any minute now, so I'd best go make sure supper is ready. Mother got home about an hour ago, so we will soon be all together again, Lord willing, of course.

Until tomorrow,

~Cora