tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40420744738079100442024-03-04T23:30:24.226-05:00Linda Marcille, Fine Art ~ Crow House StudioI create hand painted silk scarves, ties and paintings on silk with fiber reactive dyes. I also work with acrylic paints on paper and I have a daily art journaling practice.Linda Marcillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04698779888937666427noreply@blogger.comBlogger527125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4042074473807910044.post-76433974138699977612018-02-01T17:30:00.002-05:002018-02-01T19:16:52.689-05:00Painting On Silk With Thickened DyesOver the years I've used many different formulas for thickening dye. I have made home made print paste for screen printing on silk in the past by mixing sodium alginate with alcohol then mixing Urea and hot water with a little water softener and mixing it all together. I've tried spray starches and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sizing-Fabric-Containers-Included-Faultless/dp/B01LMPI4OK/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1517523686&sr=8-2-spons&keywords=magic+sizing&psc=1">Magic Sizing</a> , which technically is not a starch according to <a href="http://karensistekstudio.com/">Karen Sistek,</a> who happens to create magnificent paintings on silk with it. I have also used <a href="https://www.dharmatrading.com/chemicals/jacquards-resistad.html">Resistad</a> diluted with either water, for clear, or dyes. Resistad is my favorite product for block printing on silk.<br />
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The product I have used the most to thicken my dyes however is called <a href="https://www.dharmatrading.com/resists/jacquard-no-flo-primer.html">No-flow </a>which is made by Jacquard. It is a liquid starch-like product that I have used for many years in my landscape paintings on silk as well as on my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/LindaMarcilleArt?">silk scarves and ties</a>.<br />
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In this video I am painting a silk scarf with Dupont French steam set dyes that I thickened with No-Flow I coat the silk with the No-Flow and then let it dry completely. I sometimes add a small amount of alcohol to the starch first to loosen it up before adding it to the French dyes. Be sure to thoroughly mix the starch with the dye by whisking it. <br />
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The pen I am using in the video to draw the back lines is a refillable <a href="https://www.dickblick.com/products/molotow-empty-markers-and-replacement-nibs/?clickTracking=true&wmcp=pla&wmcid=items&wmckw=24527-1272&gclid=CjwKCAiAksvTBRBFEiwADSBZfFej_cT7gCMV4swSZwq0rW7TQdISkpxcw2kjFLsVT0lyE0m-1ICC-RoCbScQAvD_BwE">Molotow pen</a> that I have filled with black Dupont French dye. This method only works with dyes, it will not work with silk paints.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So fast forward to now. I recently wandered into the magical world of remission and my health has improved to the extent that I am painting in the studio again and selling my silk scarves and a few prints in my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/LindaMarcilleArt">Etsy shop online.</a> Selling on Etsy is great but the self promotion is a time suck away from painting in the studio. I'm also not sure Etsy is the right place for me to market my original paintings on silk. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That's when I got to the part of the book called "A Chicken's Fate". If I do seek after gallery representation again, can I keep from getting stuck when they press my beak down on the line.... but I'm getting ahead of myself. Read on.....</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"My father spent the summer of 1904 on the farm of an aunt and uncle who lived a stone’s throw northeast of Lucknow in Bruce County, Ontario, Canada. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It so happened that the aunt and uncle had a son the same age as my father. Story has it that when the two boys were together, they were a couple of hellers with a genius for mischief.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One sunny Sunday, the boys feigned stomachaches and so were excused from going to church. Uncle hitched the horse to the family’s carriage and helped his wife on board, and the two of them rode off to town for their communal worship. Of course, as soon as their carriage was out of sight around the bend, the boys’ stomachaches miraculously disappeared, and the two 10-year-olds set about to find something to do. Wanting to impress my father, a city boy, the cousin asked:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Do you know how to mesmerize a chicken?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Mesmerize? Uh-uh. What’s that?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The cousin led the way to a ramshackle chicken coop out behind the farmhouse. There he selected a fine white hen. He carried her under his arm to the front of the house, produced a piece of chalk and drew a short line on the porch. He stood the creature over the chalk line and held her beak to it. After a moment or so, the boy slowly removed his hands. The chicken stood motionless, beak to the chalk line, hypnotized. My father hooted with glee.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Let’s do another one! Let’s do another one!” he pleaded.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The two boys ran back to the hen house for another chicken. And another. And another. Before long, the hen house was empty, and the front porch was filled with 70 or so dead-silent, stark-still chickens straddling chalk lines, beaks seemingly glued to the porch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The boys, too, seemed hypnotized — mesmerized by this glorious example of their own cleverness. A breeze gently rippled the feathery coats of the unmoving chickens. In the distance, soft thudding hooves and the rattle of turning carriage wheels signaled the return of Aunt and Uncle. Wouldn’t they be surprised at this latest joke? (Aunt and Uncle did take a perverse pride in the boys’ escapades.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But wait! There were two carriages, not one. Behind the family’s carriage followed a small runabout driven by the preacher! Aunt and Uncle had invited their Scottish Presbyterian reverend to come to lunch (or dinner, as they said back there, back then). Worse, Aunt had already explained to the preacher that boys had not been at church because they were ill.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Upon seeing the fowl foolery, Uncle flew into an embarrassed rage, leapt off the carriage and bounded onto the porch, place-kicking chicken after chicken back to consciousness. Feathers and clucking and curses filled the air. The preacher, scandalized, turned his carriage around and, without a word, fled back to town, never to return.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The same thing that happened to those chickens can happen to you. When you join an organization, you are, without fail, taken by the back of the neck and pushed down and down until your beak is on a line — not a chalk line, but a company line. And the company line says things like:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“This is our history. This is our philosophy. These are our policies. These are our procedures. These are our politics. This is simply the way we are.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are not careful, you will be hypnotized by this line.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And what a pity if that happens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When you come into an organization, you bring with you an arcane potency, which stems, in part, from your uniqueness. That, in turn, is rooted in a complex mosaic of personal history that is original, unfathomable, inimitable. There has never been anyone quite like you, and there never will be. Consequently, you can contribute something to an endeavor that nobody else can. There is a power in your uniqueness — an inexplicable, unmeasurable power… a magic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But if you are hypnotized by an organization’s culture, you become separated from your personal magic and cannot tap it to help achieve the goals of the organization. In losing connection with your one-of-a-kind magic, you are reduced to nothing more than part of the headcount. Deep inside the Hairball.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, whenever you feel your head being pushed down onto an organization’s cultural chalk line, remember the challenge is to move out of the way, to choose not to be mesmerized by the culture of the company. Instead, find the goals of the organization that touch your heart and release your passion to follow those goals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is a delicate balance, resisting the hypnotic spell of an organization’s culture and, at the same time, remaining committed from the heart to the personally relevant goals of the organization. But if you can achieve that balance and maintain it, you will be out of the Hairball and into Orbit, the only place where you can tap your one-of-a-kind magic, your genius, your limitless creativity."</span><br />
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Linda Marcillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04698779888937666427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4042074473807910044.post-52247863820770714142018-01-28T17:01:00.003-05:002018-01-28T17:02:51.913-05:00Video Tutorial With Tips and Tricks On Steaming Silk <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I made a video showing the process I use for steaming Dupont French dyes in a horizontal steamer. So many people tell me that they are afraid to move away from using heat set silk -paints to using steam set dyes because of the steaming process. I remember how nervous I was during my first steaming using my homemade stove pipe steamer. But I can assure you it really is not that complicated and once you learn the basics you will be steaming like a pro. I have both a <a href="https://www.dharmatrading.com/tools/the-vertical-electric-steamer.html" target="_blank">vertical bullet steamer </a>and a <a href="https://www.dharmatrading.com/tools/stove-top-steamer.html" target="_blank">stainless steel horizontal steamer </a>and I have to say I love the horizontal one the best for it's no-fuss ease, reliable results, and quicker steaming times. It is also substantially less expensive than the bullet steamer. I bought my steamer about 20 years ago through <a href="https://www.dharmatrading.com/tools/stove-top-steamer.html" target="_blank">Dharma Trading </a>and they still sell them today. </span><br />
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<br />Linda Marcillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04698779888937666427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4042074473807910044.post-84032490731686159532018-01-25T15:40:00.000-05:002018-01-25T15:40:06.964-05:00Ivy & Chris Newport's Make Your Mark Workshop is Great!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been taking Ivy and Chris Newport's <a href="https://ivynewport.com/make-your-mark-countdown" target="_blank">"Make Your Mark"</a> workshop and it is mind boggling how much information they packed into this workshop. I also took their <a href="https://ivynewport.com/lca" target="_blank">"Lights, Camera, Art"</a> workshop but I will save that for another blog post. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am an extremely right brained person and on top of that, those of you that follow me know, I have neurological issues due to a chronic illness I live with. So if Ivy and Chris can put all this technological information across in a way that I can understand and put into practice I am guessing you can do it too. Having said that, it has been challenging for me and I did have to take a few days off from working in my studio to get all my social networking sites set up with all the info Chris is teaching us in the class. But now that I am making some real progress I getting pretty excited about seeing my audience and views increase. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here is just a tiny fragment of what I have learned. How to add SEO (search engine optimization) info to my site. The major importance of Alt Text tags on all your images and tips about how to add them and what NOT to do when adding them. That part took the longest for me because my website has hundreds of images of my silk paintings, silk scarves and my more intuitive acrylic paintings. I learned how to link my Facebook account and Website's ad tracking and analytics. Also a lot of info about branding and things you must and must not do in designing your website. There really is so much information packed into this class and I am only about half way through it as I write this post. There is still lots more learning and implementation to come for me and my social media sites as I work my way through the rest of the class. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the changes I made that will be most noticeable to my followers is that I created a banner with my logo, a flying crow carrying a silk scarf, using consistent fonts for all of my social media sites. Here are 3 screen shots below with the new banner on my Website, Blog and my Etsy Shop. I really love how the new banner carries my brand from one site to the next unifying them. Each photo has a link under it that will bring you right to that site so you can see the changes I have made throughout each site. </span><br />
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I finally got my studio switched back around for silk painting again and it felt great to be painting all these wonderfully light and bright spring colors on silk scarves. I was craving more vibrant color during these long cold winter days here in Vermont. I used a combination of my Dupont French dyes and Jacquard Dyes from <a href="https://www.dharmatrading.com/dyes/dupont-silk-dyes-french-silk-dyes.html?lnav=default.html" target="_blank">Dharma Trading.com</a> and I am hoping to put them in my silk steamer tomorrow for 2-3 hours to set the dyes. Two of them will be shipped out to a customer some will be going into my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/LindaMarcilleArt?" target="_blank">Etsy shop</a> and some will be going to The River Artisans Gallery in Bellows Falls to be juried into the gallery. I'm hoping to keep building my stock back up over the next couple of weeks after it got so depleted over the holidays. </div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">On some of the scarves I used Kosher salt for that awesome textured effect you get as the salt draws the dye out of the silk creating a look reminiscent of the tails of thousands of tiny falling stars. If you have never tried using the salt technique Dharma Trading has a short but sweet tutorial here: </span><a href="https://www.dharmatrading.com/gifts/salted-silk-scarf.html" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">Salt Technique On Silk</a><span style="text-align: left;"> You can also use this effect with watercolors on paper. It is great for simulating the look of grass or the leaves on trees in landscape painting. In the photo below of one of my scarves you can see the effect the salt had on the dye. The effect varies a great deal depending on the levels of humidity in the air, the thickness of the silk, how diluted the dyes are and it does not wok on very light pastel colors. </span></div>
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Linda Marcillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04698779888937666427noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4042074473807910044.post-69751306571733165732018-01-22T21:12:00.000-05:002018-01-23T09:55:16.169-05:00Free Painting Video Inspired by Misty Mawn's WorkshopI'm posting 2 more time lapse videos of one of the paintings I did for Misty Mawn's Immigrant Portraits workshop. If you aren't familiar with Misty's work you really should check her out. She gives these amazing online workshops that are so creatively stimulating. Especially for those times you find yourself in a bit of a creative block. Misty will be releasing another workshop very soon so be sure to follow her website: <a href="http://www.mistymawnart.com/" target="_blank">Misty Mawn Art</a> She is also on Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mistymawn/?hl=en" target="_blank">Misty on Instagram</a><br />
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The thing I like most about Misty's classes is how loosely she interprets her inspiration piece. In the end it will always be clear that it is her painting and not a copy of someones else work. I have learned a lot about loosening up and expressive painting from her and I'm working on integrating those expressive qualities into my work more and more. I find I enjoy expressive painting much more these days and I feel very draw to many of the 20th century artists. As a matter of fact I have some news about that coming up soon but for now let's talk about immigrants.<br />
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There is a website with some interesting info about the immigrants that came through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1854. There are lots of amazing portraits on the website and you may just find yourself inspired to do some further research on them or perhaps even paint your own series of immigrant portraits! I'd love to hear from you if you do! Here is the link to the website. I hope you enjoy looking at all of these fascinating people. I know I did and I even painted a few of them which was such a great experience. <a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/portraits-of-ellis-island-immigrants/" target="_blank">Public Domain Review Portraits of Ellis Island Immigrants </a><br />
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Here are the videos in 2 parts of me working on one of my Immigrant Portraits. I hope you enjoy them. I would be grateful if you left a comment letting me know your thoughts and clicked on the thumbs up on YouTube if you like them.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I learned that André Derain was a French artist and sculptor born in 1880 and he died in 1954. He and Henri Matisse were the founders of Fauvism. He was also friends with Amedeo Modigliani.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can view more of his art here: <a href="https://www.wikiart.org/en/andre-derain" target="_blank">André Derain</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can learn more about Modigliani here: <a href="https://www.wikiart.org/en/amedeo-modigliani" target="_blank">Amedeo Modigliani</a></span><br />
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<br />Linda Marcillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04698779888937666427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4042074473807910044.post-64272367967258871382018-01-19T12:32:00.000-05:002018-01-22T14:05:22.346-05:00New Paintings & Fine Art Print Offerings<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm excited to be offering some of my acrylic paintings in my Etsy shop on an experimental basis. I have historically only had my silk scarves, ties and prints of my paintings on silk in the shop but I have been getting a lot of requests for prints of my acrylic paintings. So I have added 4 new prints and if there is enough interest in them I will add more to the selection. Let me know what you think? Here is the link to my Etsy shop: <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/LindaMarcilleArt" target="_blank">Linda Marcille~Art</a></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This artwork was inspired by the André Derain's painting "Two Sisters"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Expressive art acrylic painting of girl in boat with raven being guided by angelic hands.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mixed media painting of a raven offering a woman a branch as a symbolic gift<br />
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Linda Marcillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04698779888937666427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4042074473807910044.post-71579300334119680392017-09-27T16:28:00.000-04:002017-09-27T16:39:34.155-04:00I am painting on silk again!Hey there! After a many year hiatus from silk painting due to health issues I am absolutely thrilled to finally be back in my studio creating silk scarves, ties and paintings on silk. Check out my new updated links below and drop me a comment to say hello. I am very happy to be back!<br />
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<a href="https://www.crowhousestudio.com/" target="_blank">My New Website</a><br />
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I am also very active on my Facebook Studio page and you can follow me there using this link: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CrowHouseStudio">https://www.facebook.com/CrowHouseStudio</a><br />
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I am not sure how active I will be on this blog but I wanted to at least post these updated links.<br />
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Lots of love being spread around the barnyard these days. </div>
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Seems the political turmoil of the day doesn't mean much to these wonderful creatures. 💗💗💗</div>
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Don's daughter, Lori communing with Scarlet, Bee and Rudy the rooster. </div>
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We brought in a Boer buck to breed our does</div>
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We called this little shelter the "Love Hut" while the buck was here with the girls </div>
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Bee and Scarlet have both been bred now and are growing their babies </div>
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under the watchful eye of Rudy Rooster</div>
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Meanwhile an unexpected love affair has developed between out barn cat, Mouzer, and Rudy Rooster<br />
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The chickens are happy to get out in the fresh air on sunny days and they are laying lots of beautiful eggs for us.<br />
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Ok, so yes, we did give our rooster a bath. Let me back up a bit though and start at the beginning.<br />
We had 2 Welsummer roosters for our 29 hens. The roosters were raised together as chicks and got along very well until one night when I walked into the coop and it looked like a blood bath. There was blood, and lots of it, all over the coop, the feeders, even the hens were covered in blood and both roosters were bleeding badly. The hens were overstimulated by all the blood and were now attacking the bloodied roosters. So we took the roosters out of the coop and separated them from each other.<br />
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When I headed back into the coop the hens were now attacking each other because they were attracted to the roosters blood that was covering their feathers. So on a freezing cold night Don and I were out there for hours using the goat brushes to comb the blood off the feathers of 29 hens. The next day I brought one of the roosters into the house thinking that if I could wash the blood off of him the hens would no longer attack him. He was so awesome through the whole bath. I really adore these Welsummer roosters and it will break my heart if I have to put them both in the freezer.<br />
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After his bath we dried him off and took him back out to the coop a few hours later. It didn't work, the hens attacked him straight away. Onto plan B. I grabbed some Poultry Wound Spray which has Tea Tree oil and other smelly things in it and Fooey, which is a bitter tasting spray meant to keep dogs from chewing things. I sprayed his comb, the feathers around his head and his wattles with the two sprays to keep the hens from pecking at him. Realizing at this point that this whole thing happened because these large breed, free range birds, do not do well being stuck in the coop but our girls refused to go out in the snow. So after getting the rooster all sprayed up with this stinky "cologne" to hide the smell of the blood we shoveled an area and spread old goat bedding hay over it in the chicken yard. I threw out a bunch of scratch grain to entice them and they had the whole area under the coop to explore. They were still refusing to come out so Don tossed them out the hatch one at a time, all 29 of them. Ugh!<br />
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The good news was that it seemed to work. The hens were so happy to be able to take dust baths under the barn and scratch in the hay for the scratch grains that they completely ignored the rooster. Until, that is, we locked them all in the coop that night. After we finished all the chores we went in to the coop to check on him and he was hen-pecked and bleeding. We put him back out of the coop for the night and today we are repeating the experiment of spraying him with the smelly, bitter sprays and leaving him out with the hens in the outside run. So far it is going well again today and we will keep him out of the coop at night for a while to protect him from the girls. The things we go through to try and hang onto this rooster. The other rooster is currently living in the goat section of the barn and sadly he will likely end up in the freezer.<br />
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Don convincing the girls how much fun it will be to be outside in the fresh air. Needless to say they were not convinced and had to be "helped" out the door one by one. Happily the second day they all came running out on their own.<br />
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The rooster with his happy hens. No hen-pecking going on while they are outside. </div>
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This is the other rooster. He is still a bit bloody as he has not had a bath like his brother has. He is currently living in the goat section of the barn.Linda Marcillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04698779888937666427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4042074473807910044.post-85925350567459761372016-12-21T14:18:00.002-05:002016-12-21T14:35:28.578-05:00Our Eggs at Putney General Store!Today we delivered 7 dozen of our eggs to the Putney General Store in Putney, Vermont. Our hens are free-ranged in the woods in good weather and they are fed a 100% organic diet. We are very happy to have been given such a wonderful reception to offering our eggs for sale at this local store.<br />
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Beth modeling our eggs so elegantly before she puts them in the cooler ;-)</div>
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Linda Marcillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04698779888937666427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4042074473807910044.post-61075711880506368102016-11-19T21:06:00.001-05:002016-11-19T22:25:29.818-05:00The Buck Arrives, New Puppy, Barn Kitten, More Eggs, Bending RebarSo much has been going on lately! We were given a new puppy, an 11 week old Japanese Chin that is absolute adorable. We named her Posey. We also rescued a barn cat from the Humane Society to help us get a handle on the problem we are having with mice stealing our grain in the barn. Her name is Alma and she is a very cute but slightly feral 4 month old grey tabby.<br />
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Today the buck arrived to breed our Boer goat Bee. We also got a delivery of 50 bales of hay in the same trailer that the buck came in. The chickens have started laying more and there were 5 eggs yesterday up from one egg a day previously.<br />
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The logger came and did a final walk through on the land. We mapped out the areas where they will cut trees and clear land for more goat pasture and garden area. Then there are all the other things that come up or need to be done on our little farm, like Don finding a creative way to bend rebar to hang a heated water bucket using the tractor or me finding a stash of acorns in my muck shoe on the front porch this morning.<br />
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Meet Posey, our new Japanese Chin puppy. She is 11 weeks old and already owns my heart <3 p=""></3><br />
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This is Alma. She is a 6 month old silver tabby that we adopted from the humane societies "Barn Cat Adoption" program. They ask farmers to keep their new cats in a large crate for 2 weeks so that the cat become imprinted on her new surroundings and doesn't run off. They even lent us a large wire dog kennel for this purpose. In the photo below Don used his hay pull to pull the crate up into the hay loft where he set it up.<br />
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This is her home for 2 weeks in the hay loft until it starts to feel like home to her. We left the small crate with a bed in the large dog crate so it would be like a little den to her. You can just barely see her peeking over her bed in the back of the pink kennel.<br />
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The hens have ramped up their laying from one egg a day to 5 eggs today! We have a light on a timer that turns on at 4:00 in the morning to help give them enough hours of light a day to lay. It is safer and kinder for the birds if a very low watt light goes on in the dark hours of the morning and does not stay on at night and suddenly go off as the he's are trying to get up onto their roost. They don't see well in the dark and the light going out abruptly may cause them to injure themselves as they try to get up onto the roost or prevent them from getting up on the roost at all.<br />
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The girls and boys wandering around the barnyard and venturing out into the road.</div>
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Our beautiful helper Clara. She is such a cheerful, hard worker and a real Godsend to us. </div>
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50 bales of hay all loaded up into the hayloft!</div>
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Scarlet, on the left, is Bee's daughter and she is too young to be bred this year so she is being kept on the other side of the fence line. She is not liking being separated from her mom.<br />
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Don needed to bend some rebar to hang a heated water bucket in the second goat paddock so he improvised by using some holes in the bucket of his tractor.<br />
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Clara, helped Don get the doors put on the goat hut. We have a buck coming in to breed Honey Bee and we needed to divide the paddock in half with electric fence. Then we needed to build a hut for the buck and Bee to be in on one side while Scarlet is on the other side with access to her stall in the big barn.<br />
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Welcome to the goat hut. Come on in!</div>
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Originally we had the door on the back but I wanted it on the side to have a higher door. Don moved it but didn't make it higher :-/</div>
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Clara putting a latch on the door. Don is just a blur of activity as usual.</div>
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This little lady jumped up on the fence to see what all the activity was about. </div>
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Mama and Daughter checking out the new hut. Neither one are going to like it when they are separated,. When we separate them just to cut hooves or worm them they beat and scream and carry on. It may be a loud and long month while the buck is here lol.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well the day came when we had to cull four young roosters from our flock. Nobody likes that day but they had reached maturity, were abusing the hens and even hurt two of them. They were old enough that we were able to determine which personalities would work best to keep with our flock and which definitely would not. The two we ended up keeping are Welsummers. They had the best mix of predator aggression for protecting the flock yet they were extremely tolerant of us and have shown no aggression towards us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We butcher using the kindest method we know. The first thing we do is go into the pen with the roosters and burn sage as on offering of gratitude. We say a blessing prayer and thank the roosters for the sustenance they will give to us. We honor their beauty, life and the nutrients they have gathered from the rain, sun and earth into their bodies. I tell them that we are liberating them from their life as roosters and that they can move on in what ever form they want to. We burn the sage smudge stick over each rooster and then begin the process of transforming them into food in the kindest, most respectful way possible. </span><br />
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Don and Clara holding 2 roosters in front of the killing cones. The bucket below will gather the blood which will be composted. These cones hug the roosters in an upside down position which sedates them.<br />
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Don is holding a Buff Orpington rooster upside down so that the blood rushes to his brain causing a sedation effect which calms the bird down greatly.</div>
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Once the bird is calm and still it is slipped into the cone which calms the bird even more by holding it in a snug embrace.<br />
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Clara is calming one of the Welsummers before placing it in the cone. </div>
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Clara placing the rooster in the cone</div>
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I do not cut the heads off of the birds or sever the trachea when butchering them. It is my belief that the resulting suffocation causes the bird to suffer. By only cutting into the carotid artery and jugular vein the bird peacefully drifts from it's already sedated state, (from being upside down), into unconsciousness, and finally, death. Until death occurs the heart continues to beat pumping the blood out of the body. It is a very peaceful death compared to other butchering methods. If you cut the trachea (windpipe) the bird flails about in panic with an adrenalin rush from suddenly not being able to breathe. I have butchered birds both ways and once I learned to only bleed the bird out and not cut the head off I noticed how much kinder the process was to the bird. </div>
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I am scalding the birds at 145 degrees to loosen the skin on the feet and the feathers for easier plucking. Clara is plucking a bird o the bowl.<br />
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Don and Clara plucking the birds in the front yard where there is access to running water via the garden hose. </div>
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After the carcasses were eviscerated and washed I put them in this strainer basket to drain the water off so they would be nice and dry when I bagged them. This helps prevent freezer burn when the are stored in the freezer. First they will spend three days in the refrigerator as the enter into rigor mortis where the carcasses will stiffen, by the end of the 3 days they will have relaxed and become tender.<br />
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We ended up with 13 pounds of whole chicken. I forgot to weigh the feet, hearts, gizzards, livers, and necks so probably over 14 pounds in all. </div>
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In our previous homesteading years we would try to use every usable part of the animals we butchered. I used to tan the hides of the rabbits and goats and sew them into various items. We used to give the hooves, ears, horns etc.. to the dogs. I also used to make stock from the bones and can it in a pressure cooker. I saved some of the lovely tail feathers from these roosters and I also saved the wings with the feathers to preserve in cornmeal and Borax. Clara is going to help me stretch the wings and get them drying tomorrow. This is my first time preserving whole, feathered chicken wings and I'm looking forward to it.</div>
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So it was a productive day and it's always a great feeling to add your own home-grown organic meat to the freezer.Linda Marcillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04698779888937666427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4042074473807910044.post-81601163141872838692016-11-02T20:38:00.000-04:002016-11-02T20:42:10.804-04:00Chicken SurgeryToday I had to preform surgery on one of our chickens. Two of them had nasty gashes in their necks from one of the roosters (Who is now in the freezer but that is for tomorrow's blog post). Anyway I've been applying poultry wound spray to both of them for a couple of days but there was a flap of skin on one of the wounds and the other hens must have picked at it and opened it way up. When I went to put the wound spray on it today I noticed that the tissue had became necrotic. The two hens that were injured were Turkens, also called "Naked Necks", because of their bare featherless necks. The roosters grab the feathers on a hens neck when they mount them but in the case of the Naked Necks there are no feathers so the rooster grabs the flesh. Then the other hens peck at it.<br />
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I briefly thought of trying to reattach the top of the skin flap to the wound but then realized the only thing to do was to cut the flap off because the skin was necrotic, dead. I was concerned about how much blood loss there would be so I grabbed a can of Bag Balm. When we used to castrate pigs we used to stuff the open wound with Bag Balm and they always healed up perfectly and didn't bleed a lot. So I gathered her up and carried her over to a quite place, which just happened to be the bucket of the tractor. I applied wound spray to disinfect the area, took a sterilized razor blade and cut off the flap. It bled a bit so I packed the area with bag balm and it looks much better. I am hoping that it heals well and quickly. I gave her some water with some apple cider vinegar and garlic and will keep applying wound spray and Bag Balm over the next few days. I have my fingers crossed that it heals up well.<br />
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After applying wound spray, removing the necrotic skin and applying bag balm the wound looked much better. I will check it tomorrow and if it is not showing signs of improvement I will ask my vet for advice. She was good as gold through the whole procedure. I really adore the temperament of these Naked Neck hens.<br />
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We were blessed to score a few bushels of organic produce seconds (Farm rejects) to feed to our chickens and goats. I discovered that if I stewed the veggies and fed them to the livestock in the broth there was a lot less waste then feeding them just raw chopped veggies. I also added apple cider vinegar and garlic. So today I stewed up another pot full of assorted vegetables for them. </div>
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Is that stewed vegetables I smell??? Bring it on !</div>
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A friend requested a custom order of 5 tea bag paintings with Monarch butterflies on them. I got stuck over at the barn for longer than I meant to be again this morning. The chickens water bucket was frozen and I needed to figure out a solution. Cleaning stalls and feeding a homemade mash of organic veggies took longer than I planned, mostly because there was lots of goat cuddling and conversations with chickens going on in-between chores. Anyway by the time I got into the studio it was getting late and I was tired so I only got one of the drawings I had done over last week painted today. It was also the first real snow of the season and that was exciting.<br />
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The drawings on the tea bags. The tags and strings have been dyed with some of my homemade walnut ink.</div>
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Butterfly number one is done. Now to paint the background. </div>
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After I finished the background I sewed the tag and string back onto the tea bag.</div>
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After being so crazy busy and fighting a virus for the last few weeks I hadn't had any time to get in the studio. I had a request to do a custom order for 5 tea bag paintings with monarch butterflies on them a week or so ago. I wasn't sure if I had the energy to take on the order with the farm chores keeping me so busy. Plus as most artists know small paintings tend to be more difficult to paint then large paintings and tea bag paintings are tiny! But then I though it would be nice to spend some quality time in the studio and with all these extra farm expenses I sure could use the money lol. I have been working on the drawings over the last week and today I finally finished the last couple. Hopefully I will find the time and energy to start painting them tomorrow. </div>
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A friend that works on an organic farm gifted us with a ton of organic veggie seconds that she gleaned from the farms compost pile. These veggies will be perfect to feed to the chickens and goats as the bounty of summer and fall gives way to the more barren winter landscape. </div>
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The goats were thrilled with their breakfast of fresh chopped veggies. I nearly froze my hands off chopping the veggies up in the barn after clearing the sheets of ice off the water buckets. We plunged in the heated water buckets tonight so hopefully there won't be ice in them in the morning.<br />
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The chickens seemed to be enjoying some of the chopped up veggies this morning too, although some were more interested in free ranging outside the run. Later in the day I made a huge pot of the steamed veggies we were given from the organic farm and I added apple cider vinegar, and a lot of minced garlic. I brought the mash out and shared it between the goats and chickens. I gave them the mash and the broth the veggies were steamed in and I think the warm food was a bit hit on this really cold day. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix3Z3UWiZttAkQpuzOYjOHXB68riQQ8x4y0pEH4JwG3USz4B62uJLns5f7_Ymm0tFEYrrIXXRrz36AWCNIlOa54576uXy9FdkWzeogzVapxwFXjE1Y5cuk2BAz-LxCYt62XEc9uOA50UOF/s1600/20161026_101131_30288031090_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix3Z3UWiZttAkQpuzOYjOHXB68riQQ8x4y0pEH4JwG3USz4B62uJLns5f7_Ymm0tFEYrrIXXRrz36AWCNIlOa54576uXy9FdkWzeogzVapxwFXjE1Y5cuk2BAz-LxCYt62XEc9uOA50UOF/s640/20161026_101131_30288031090_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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We are officially waging war on the rodents in the barn that are stealing copious amounts of grain from the chicken feeders. We have put in a request at the local Animal Welfare for their "Barn cat program". They place cats that are too feral to live in homes with farmers that need rodent control in their barns. Until we hear back from them we needed to do something quick as the amount of grain the rodents are stealing daily is alarming. Grandpa's rodent and bird proof feeders have been around for generations and they seem to be very well built. We had put off buying one for a long time because our farm expenses have been way above what we expected them to be this year. Alas, if this feeder proves to be as rodent proof as the reviews claim then it will pay for itself in short order. I will post more about it once we get it put together and start the recommended 2 week training period with the chickens.<br />
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We are bringing in a buck to breed our doe so we had to install a new line fence to divide the pasture. We also built a 2nd goat shelter so the doe, Honey Bee, and the buck have one side of the paddock with shelter and Scarlet can have the other side with access to the barn. This system will also come in handy when we wean the babies in the spring. Don built it from the cut off edged of the logs we had milled here on the property. </div>
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The girls have already been checking out the new digs. Scarlet has never been separated from her Mama so when the buck arrives and they are separated by the line fence and in different enclosures at night I think there will be a fair amount of crying going on from Scarlet. Poor baby.<br />
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The chickens are so well camouflaged in the woods that I had to listen for them to find them today. The Welsummer roosters have been really great at keeping watch over them.<br />
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I finished carving the 3rd pumpkin today, it's a raven and it is lit up tonight with the goat and rooster pumpkins tonight. For more info on carving the first two click <a href="http://brattleboro-muse.blogspot.com/2016/10/a-day-of-miracles-pumpkin-carving.html" target="_blank">Here</a></div>
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I am feeling so grateful tonight that I don't even know where to begin to tell the tale of today's wanderings and blessings. So many of my days are limited and difficult do to the challenges of chronic illness. My mind still wants to be active and involved. As a matter of fact my mind is filled with brilliant creative ideas most days but my body just can't keep up. So when I have a good day, I mean one of those rare, miraculous, energy filled, happy, creative days, it feels a bit like I have woken from a bad dream and that my healthy active life has returned after 17 long years of struggle. Today was one of those wondrous days. A miracle day. The EBV/H-6 protocol I am on is working, I'm continually feeling better and am able to get more accomplished that I have in a long while.<br />
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It also happened to be one of those stunningly beautiful fall days that make you feel like you have stepped off the planet and landed directly in heaven. I decided to go for a ride but didn't know where I was headed. I drove over towards Westminster West and the wonderful display of pumpkins at High Meadows Farm caught my eye. I wondered if I would have enough energy to carve pumpkins. I used to carve very elaborate ones but after I got sick I never seemed to have the energy. I really felt like I could do it today, I had the energy and I found that so exhilarating. So I bought 3 of their lovely organic pumpkins. They have a little cash box where you pay by the honor system.<br />
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Then I headed north and came upon the Vermont Shepherd Farm. I just had to stop and snap a photo of the sheep grazing in the field.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">I noticed that the farm store was open so I pulled in and it turned out that I was happy I did. </span>I bought some carded wool to dye with my black walnut dye and a 1/2 leg of lamb. Like at the High Meadows farm stand they too had a cash box where you pay via the honor system.<br />
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The roads home were mostly dirt roads and they all were beautiful. I was escorted part of the way by an old black lab who was unsure just which direction he was heading in, stopping and turning often. </div>
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When I got home I put the pumpkins out on the deck and got ready to carve them. I received a call from my Mom letting me know that a procedure she had undergone had turned out well. I had been praying about it all day so this felt like another miracle. </div>
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Then I began gutting and carving my new pumpkins</div>
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I told myself that I would be happy if I had the energy to complete gutting and carving at least one. I was extremely happy when I completed carving two. I was very rusty after not having carved any for 17 years. I made some structural errors on my first design but I realized it in time to save the design.<br />
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When Don came home I was still carving. He took some photos of me in my happy place!<br />
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My goat pumpkin being lit up by the afternoon sun.</div>
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Both my rooster and goat pumpkins lit up with tea candles. </div>
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It would be wrong of me to say that I accomplished this all by myself. The boys were by my side the whole time I was carving those pumpkins. They were eating every pumpkin morsel that I dropped on the deck. The little hoovers!<br />
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Don had quite a scary tale to tell when he got home, (and a cut and blackened eye to go with the tale). The final miracle for today was that my hubby did not lose his eye when he had an accident with a bungie strap that let go under pressure as he was tightening it. The metal hook came back at him and hit him right below the eye. He is in a fair bit of pain but at least it did not hit the eye itself. So very grateful!</div>
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Oh, I almost forgot with al these exciting things going on. Our chickens laid their first egg today!</div>
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