Check on this giveaway

Jennifer is having a giveaway
http://feathersinthenest.blogspot.com/2009/11/christmas-give-way-for-special.html.

Chiloe's Giveaway

Just wanted to post this that Chiloe is having a giveaway. Take a look at her blog http://chiloescorner.blogspot.com.

Canning

Spent most of August through November canning.  I canned, grape, plum, white peach jam.  Made applesauce, picked cabbage, pickled green beans, hot peppers.  Made salsa, froze green beans.  Will post picutures of everything on my multiply site.

Karyn of Teakettle Corner giveaway

Karyn of Teakettle Corner is sponsoring a giveaway, the winner will be picked on New Years.  Take a look,  someone will be a very happy winner. http://theteakettlecorner.blogspot.com/.

Everything thats happend

Got all the Christmas Cards sent out for family and cross stitch friends. Have to finish shopping for Christmas. Now that we are living in the middle of nowwhere, going Christmas shopping has to be done in one day or two trips. Not like where we lived before, everything was so close. Hope to do some stitching after the Christmas Holiday. We have two new furbabies, one is a white and orange kitty, I named him Sassy Kitty, that's all he does, if he's not sleeping. And our second is a 5 year old Pomeranian, she is black with a little white at her mouth, her name is Shanti (Shawntea), I just love her. She belonged to my niece, but she couldn't have her at her Condo, (no outside pets new rule), so of course through my nieces tears, Auntie gave in. My niece got her from a breeding farm, where they kept the dogs in cages and just keep breeding them, with her being black, she is suppose to be a rare color. So my niece adopted her had her fixed. Her only drawback is she doesn't like men. Ya hoo!!! At least I can say she will be mine. It seemed with our other dogs, I potty trained them, then they went to my husband.

Started on an SAL, but the fabric was cut too short, so I had to order another piece, needless to say I haven't started it again. I am trying to work on ones that I had already started.

The weather has been bitterly cold. We had snow Tuesday night and then lost power, Wednesday snow and blowing wind and no power, Thursday power came on about 6:00am, snow and blowing wind and cold temps, the high was 20 degrees. Either Monday or Tuesday next week we will hit 32 (heat wave after this cold stuff). This weather is January or February weather in Michigan. The other horrible thing is everything is frozen and icy. I had convinced my husband last summer to build an outhouse, glad he did, it was cold, but aleast I didn't have to go behind the barn and freeze. It just wasn't us without power, the town before us and all of our town was without power, schools were closed too.