My ordinary day… a day in my life

Another 14th of the month and I am tracking my day again. It has been fun to look back at each one and see how similar they are!

I was up at 7 AM, it is Sunday after all, greeted by my sweet husband and hot coffee. I spent some time drinking coffee, visiting blog friends and listening to the ducks and hens chatter loudly outside my window. They have become ever so bold and come right up to the door letting me know I need to get out there and feed them!

In the kitchen I put on eggs to boil, we have a lot of them, so egg salad is in the near future and start the wheat bread. Although I have kept the mixer in the cupboard in the past I felt having on the counter island in plain view and easy to use would keep me motivated in the bread making dept. I also ground a week’s worth of wheat berries last night and put it in the refrigerator. Hauling out both the grinder and the mixer everytime I want to use them seemed to intimidate my bread making!

DH is outside “tinkering”. I can hear his sweet sounds and I am getting ready to have a blueberry muffin and milk as a quick breakfast. It’s after 9 but my stomach doesn’t want food any earlier!

After a bit I wander out and talk to my DH while he bends over his tractor and then head over to feed the ducks. They quack and run towards me and then away. They jump into the pond and swim to were they know I will drop their grain and wait patiently while I move back enough to suit them! Then they dive into the feed. Next the adolescent chicks need feeding they are in a pen in the greenhouse. But I have come to realize they stay in the pen because they want to ,not because they can’t get out! They have some feathers now and fuzzy tuffs on the backs of their heads. I collect some eggs and head back inside.

DH makes us mid morning coffee and I work on dolls while takes a 15 minute break before heading out again. His has invited me to see the places where he has several downed trees and has put in a crude road in order to get them out. It is on the back 40 acres of our property and I don’t get out there very often.

We have a wonderful walk in the woods and ooh and aah over the many trees that will be this years and perhaps next years firewood. We dream of a small open plan house setting down here in the quietness of the woods just big enough for the two of us with a large Finnish fireplace that would heat the whole house. Ah such dreams. He snaps my picture in front of what he tells me is the largest tree on our property. He should know since he has roamed these woods over the last 22 years searching for bucks and cutting down trees.

Lunch is wonderful, freshly cooked wheat bread and egg salad with a fresh picked tomato on top. Yum.

I settle into my sewing room for a stretch of work finishing a blue eyed doll. I have a book on cd that I am enjoying listening to while I work. My doll will have pj’s and dress with a pinafore. I am trying something different for the pj top and have to spend a lot of time tweaking it. Finally I am satisfied. When I hear my DH come in from mowing the back field I come down. He has stopped because the rain has started! We catch the tail end of the Red Sox game and enjoy a bit of conversation. Then I head back to the sewing room. I am very intrigued with the book I am listening to so the sewing comes very easy.

Because of the rain and the shortening days it is dark by 6:30PM and I head down to close in the hens. They are laying fast and furious and I collect another 7 eggs. It is already dark out and quite wet.

Sunday night supper is a ‘do it yourself’ deal and DH has already fed himself. I will make myself something quick and easy and download some pictures I took today for this blog and then play some online Scrabble before bed.

My friend just called to tell me her sister in law might be here to see the dolls I make tomorrow. I am prepared to do some custom orders now that it is getting close to Christmas.

It has been a wonderful day!