Rain Rain Go AWAYYYY

 It's raining its pouring... Seriously it's POURING down rain here and it will not stop. The amount of times I have tried to convince the dogs to go out and go potty.. And then followed them around inside until the pawprints are no longer everywhere... I would like to submit AGAIN my claim with Mother Nature for this to stop. I would like to say first and foremost, thank you for stopping the landscaping portion of the weather week and leaving our trees alone. I guess I should have specified more and asked for the INSANE weather events to stop all together. SO with that in mind, can you please stop flooding everything?? And I do mean EVERYTHING. Basement? I think you mean our indoor splash pad. 

Driveway/Front Yard? NOO you mean our new water feature! 

It's a pond AND a raging river! 

Garage? OH you mean the holding place for rainwater! We got it all! 

SHEETS upon sheets of rain keep falling from the sky. I think all the plants are good now! No one is parched! We can move onto sunny weather next if you wouldn't mind. Partly cloudy? I'll even take "gee it LOOKS like rain" without the rainfall. Not asking for too much I don't think. 

Our rain gauges are overflowing!

Rain Rain GO AWAY!!!

Stay dry out there!

And always remember, if you see a flooded road, turn around and don't drown! Seriously the flooding out here is DEEP!

Always,

Amelia

Happy Birthday Blossom!

 Today is Blossom's 15th Birthday!!!

15 years young and as tail-wagging devoted as ever

From faithful doggie ready to follow you everywhere

To relaxing on the deck and enjoying the summer breeze

Our sweet Blossom is always there and ready FUR love <3

Happy Birthday to YOU sweet puppy!

We love you Blossom Possum Puppy Paws!

Always,

Amelia

Chef du Jour

 The Yesteryear Acres garden is cranking out the biggest best zucchini ever!! They are so good my Dad has to battle the deer nightly to keep them away from our tasty crops! One of the bucks was going to charge my Dad over the zucchinis until Hickory came to save the day (his chuck it ball hahahah) and started running towards the garden. 

With having to pick so many Zucchinis at once in order to make it into our own tummies, we have been making ALL different kinds of zucchini recipes! 

And here to help with this tasty task... 

Our resident Zucchini Expert Chef du Jour... Thatcher!

Time to get baking! 

Thatcher says it Zucchini bread day!

Expert mixing assistance

Applesauce quality control

A tough job, but someone's gotta do it

Last Mix Dance Party!

Into the oven

Now the hard part... Waiting!

DING! Ahhh the perfect Mini muffin

and Mama loaf!

With zucchini to spare for "Caterpillar Dinner" (roasted Zucchini night!)

Bon Appetite! 

With a happy tummy,

Chef du Jour Thatcher

Always,

Amelia

<3

Bedtime Buddies

With our bedtime routine somehow getting longer and longer, the Havanese have decided to join in on the fun of trying to get two monkey toddler butts to bed

Our night goes a little like this...

Alright! It's time to go upstairs and get ready for bed!

No one listens to me but the dogs

"I am always ready for cuddles in bed"

~See youngest toddler crawling into chewy box in background~

AT LEAST 10 minutes of "NAKEY KIIIIDS" running up and down the hallway with INTENSE giggling and tippy tap of Havanese paws following the padding of running toddler toes... I finally wrangle said toddler toes into the tub for a good scrubbing

Toes must be checked by our supervisors of course 

Toes pass inspection- WHEW

Then I STRUGGLE to get "CLEAN NAKEY KIIIIDS" back into garments and into their respective rooms. Thatcher goes down first, darkness, bottle, and books I have memorized at least 12 times over by now and then to sleep. *PLEASE NOTE- All doggie collars must come off at this stage! DO NOT make the mistake of one doggie tag jingle or Thatcher WILL sit right back up and start giggling. This bout of giggles will end in tears...

Once Thatcher is asleep, I get to turn my full attention to Hazel which consists of 6752348763248923 questions of WHY she could have asked all day, getting in and out of bed to do XYZ all by herself all while Kipper is my portable therapy heating pad and awaits for story time part 2 to begin

"HAZEL BEAAAA. Kipper is ready for his story! Do you want to read it to him or shall I?"

Thankfully 'Kipper' is just SO tired that Mama should read the book and 'he' needs tucked into bed before we start. 

MMMHMMM 'Kipper' is exhausted and falls to sleep 3 seconds after Mommy closes the door.

Finally we get downstairs NO SOONER than an hour and 20 minutes later and I get hit with this...

STREEEETCH

Aaaaahhh. Sooo when are we going to bed?? 

Always,

Amelia

P.S. Thank goodness for a lap full of happy Havanese!

Keep Them Coming!!

 Here at Yesteryear Acres, receiving ANY notes, emails, messages, letters... ANYTHING with a PUPdate on it and it's automatically my favorite piece of communication :) <3  So PLEASE keep them coming!!!

Mia dropped a note to say things in year three of 'puppyhood' are going GREAT!

Her family says they are SO happy with her and they love how gentle, playful, and well behaved she is. PLUS Mia is amazing company <3 

AWW Good Girl Mia!!!

Thank you for the mail Mia!

Always,

Amelia

The Final Rose Y Acres Studio

 Our rose quilt is complete and happily at its new home! To make our order go as fast as possible for the new bundle of joy... 

We implemented super team work!

From piecing the top

To setting up our long arm

Mrs. Y Acres Studio super sewing skills seized the day!

Then I was tagged back in with bobbin winding

And quilting!

Teamwork makes...

The dream work!

Squared up and ready for our binding to be placed

Tag Mrs. Y Acres you're it!

Go Mrs. Y Acres GO!

The final rose FINISHED in record Y Acres Studio time!

Back to me for packaging and shipping!

One quilt ready and off to it's new cozy FOREVER

'Sweet as a Rose' is on the way!

Happy The Final Rose Studio Sunday!

Always,

Amelia

Brave Little Caturday

Look how BRAVE our little Devon Rex kittens are

I am going to get this HUGE GIANT bird!

Where did it go?

There it is!!!

I am going to need some assistance

You distract it while I pounce

1, 2, 3,  Get it!!!!

I think we might have to work on our timing

Paws UP for bravery!

Happy Caturday!!!