Day: November 18, 2012

Turkey Tracks: Some Favorite Recent Pictures

Turkey Tracks:  November 18, 2012

Some Favorite Recent Pictures

Three of the grandchildren and son Bryan have birthdays in September.

Remember the socks I was making out of leftover yarn?

Birthday socks–worn with very feminine white nightgowns purchased at a local Camden store:

Ailey Enright, the youngest grandchild for the moment, will be two the 25th of November.  She belongs to Bryan and Corinne, and she is intrepid.  No matter how cold the water, in she goes…

Bryan and Bowen (Mike and Tami’s oldest) were learning to surf.  Guess you will likely outdo both…

I love this one, taken on this same cold day.  Cousins–the oldest and the youngest:

Charleston cousins at Halloween:  the children of three families are represented here:  Mike and Tami, Bryan and Corinne, and Joey and Meaghan Kelly’s Meyer is in the red costume:

Talula is going to be a designer/artist of some sort.  She put this costume together herself, but got help with her eyes.  The photo is by Tara Derr Webb, who is clearly a mentor here and who is, herself, a working artist, a budding farmer, an amazing cook, and a gifted photographer.

Morning with Daddy:

Ailey with Uncle Michael:

Here are the Mike and Tami kiddos painting pumpkins with Uncle Joey and cousin Meyer.  Joey is Tami’s brother, and he’s so good with all these children.

First day in a new school.  I made the dress Mina is wearing, on the left, some years back.  Each girl had a matching dress, and I thought they were long outgrown.

Meyer Kelly on his quilt.  I love nothing better than to see a quilt I’ve made being used and loved:

Ditto, Owen Black on his quilt:

That’s all folks!

 

Turkey Tracks: Fox With Foot Fetish

Turkey Tracks:  November 18, 2012

Fox With Foot Fetish

We’ve had a few chuckles over this information.

You might remember that we lost two chickens to a fox about six weeks or so ago.  Our whole neighborhood had seen her/him from time to time.  Susan McBride and Chris Richmond, up at Golden Brook Farm, thought for a few days fox had gotten one of their sweet, new barn cats.  And, they breathed a sigh of relief when they took their crop of meat chickens to be slaughtered without any loss along the way.

Things died down, then neighbor Marina Schauffler sent me this post:

In case you’re in need of a little humor, here’s an update on the neighborhood fox thief. Your chickens aren’t the only victims. I have now lost FIVE shoes to our fox friend. I kick off shoes on our back porch and noticed that one (then two, then three) were missing, but thought the boys had knocked them off or moved them. When a hiking boot went missing this morning, I hopped online and found that there are foxes with a foot fetish—who steal shoes for their pups to play with! One in Germany got nicknamed Imelda (after Imelda Marcos) ‘cause she ran off with 120 shoes in one community! I have to laugh (even though it’s going to be costly replacing them!)—I wish I could have seen her hauling off the half-pound hiking boot!

My chickens are loose again.

So far, so good…