Apple Butter Frolic, Tired of Imports, Jonesy!

Well it's Monday! I got some cleaning and laundry done this morning and then decided to head out to do some errands. While I was out I passed a country type store I hadn't been in for a while. Maybe it's me - but I'm getting tired of the stuff that is out there. So much is imported and expensive to buy but cheap in looks - Know what I mean? Anyway - I was a bit disappointed as this store used to have a higher quality of items I thought but so much was the imports now. Being a rug hooker, I was extremely disappointed to see they had "hooked-rug" rugs, pillows and items - i say this lightly as they were the cheap import. No quality at all in my opinion. Anyway - i did see one item that I had to have. Yes it's sort of cutesy but I found it fun. It was a "kit" to make a spider out of your pumpkin. The eyes, legs, and mouth are included and it is metal. So on my way home there is a farm around the corner selling pumpkins, Indian corn, hay bales, corn stalks, gourds, and the like so I stopped to get some pumpkins to make my "spider". Oh and it was the honor system - yep they are still around here - everything was priced and you put the money in a box yourself!

So here is a pic of my Spider Pumpkin - I think I am going to leave him on the table rather than put him outside - Will have to get some spider webbing and bittersweet or something to swirl around him - haven't decided yet!

Last nite I decided to try to hook - Jonesy was immediately on the bed - guess he's telling me with that tongue sticking out that no way am I hooking when he's ready to play - he is a character for sure -

I tried anyway - so here he is relaxing on my rug -

Got him off the rug and now he's in my woolies -

Finally he decided to lay back on the old quilt and watch Amazing Race with me while I hooked - Such a cutie -

I have to say - he still has big paws but he hasn't seem to grown for a while - we are wondering if he's going to stay this small! I know he's only about 6 months old and still has growing but he seemed to go like a weed and now has been at a standstill - that's okay - he's my baby any size!

On Saturday - I demonstrated rug hooking at the Apple Butter Frolic in Harleysville, PA. It's a celebration to show you what it was like living on a PA German farm.

There was a ton of food to select from - things like fresh scrapple, corn pies, sausage sammies, funnel cake, ground cherry pie, shoo fly, funny cake and more. There were a ton of demonstrations going on like shelling corn where a dog powers the treadmill, also corn binding with horse powering the treadmill, they were cutting down cornstalks with the horse, there was a display of vintage tractors and old-time farm equipment, beekeeping, quilting, fraktur painting, milk painting, and much more. Thank goodness the weather was good - it rained for about 5 minutes in the morning than the sun came out - it warmed up and there was a nice breeze!

Here's a few random pics from the day -

Oh this is the homemade ice cream I had to have later in the day (Rasperry and Vanilla) MMMM real cream!

Hard to see but this was the corn shelling with the dog -

Here's a pic right beside my table - the woman was doing frakturs -

And here's a pic on the way to work the treadmill for the corn binding -

So that's what I've been up to the last few days!

Looks like I'm getting the hairy eyeball for being on the computer when someone wants his dinenr - better go feed Jonesy before my ankles are gnawed off!

Have a wonderful week!