It Was A Snap!

I did get the little "snap bag" made last week.  When I make something new, I like to make just one so I get the process straight in my mind.  I used the pattern by Stitchin Sisters.  I borrowed the pattern from one of my quilting groupies.  These little bags use old metal measuring tape to create the snap closure.  DH brought me about 10 feet from the shop to use.   I learned a lot making the first one and hope to get some more made for some Valentine treats.  It was quick and easy.  It took me longer to cut out the pieces than to sew it together.   There is a tutorial for one here too.

I've been in a "January funk" this last week.  It has been overcast and super, super cold. It has snowed off and on the last 3 days.  High winds a couple days blew the snow around and into the shelter belts. It was -18 this morning, but at last the sun is shining.  It is amazing what sunshine does for me.  I see on face book that a lot of people take extra Vitamin D in the winter time.  I'll have to look for some next time I get somewhere that sells that kind of thing.  When it is so cold I just want to wrap up in a blanket and vegetate.  Rocco loves when I do that, so I'm appreciated by him.   Linda sent me the book, The Quilter's Apprentice, so I was reading instead of sewing.  Thanks, Linda, it was a good read.

Peanut  had a successful surgery last week.  She was back to wanting outside in two days.  I worry about her naked tummy and getting too cold.  She whines and nags until I give in and let her out.  At least she comes back sooner than before.  I thought maybe the surgery would slow her down, but so far not a bit.

These three shared some snacks together the other morning.  "Bad Cow" walks over the cattle guard gate, which is suppose to keep her out of our yard.  She likes the corn and oats that get spilled by the grain bins.  She was joined by a cotton tail rabbit and a blue jay.   The pheasants and deer like to stop for lunch too.

I ran letters to the mailbox this morning, so I took a sunny day picture coming back.  The snow doesn't look as stacked up as it does in towns, because we have more room for it to spread out.

The cows were all waiting for "Meals on Wheels" to show up.  I don't want to come back as a cow in my next life--not a South Dakota cow, anyway.  They don't seem to mind as long as they have a lot of food.

Well, I hope to get over my funk and back into my sewing room.  With the sun shining it should help warm it up in there too.