Sloooow time of year

It's become a bit scarier this year and for the most part, very real.
The store has been slower which means less income and it's going to be a struggle to pay the bills this month. I can't wait for the terrific St. James Farmer's Market to start. I visited with some people in Rolla today and thats all we talked about was when the farmer's market will start. The people are great there, vendors and buyers. My crafts typically sell very well and I hardly ever go home with eggs that my chickens have given me. This year Ed has decided we will be selling veggies as well, he's been working on the garden already when the temperatures and ground have allowed. He's trying to make room for 100 tomato plants.

We sold out of stethoscope covers at the store, so made a bunch more tonight and got some patches sewn on shirts for some area deputies.

Great wishes to all and anyone who's struggling like us, keep your head up!

One of my new projects, not necessarily an adventure......but once I get off my butt, will be posting some things on etsy. You will start seeing how adverse we really are! This is one of the first projects I've had time to do where I got to combine sewing and embroidery. My mom swiped this for herself about 2 minutes after the pictures were taken.

1200 watt wind turbine

It works! After several trials and obtaining a snorkel lift, the wind turbine will charge a battery. No electricity from any outside source, just wind powered! This one is approximately 30 feet tall. Ed had to dress it up so he went with chrome tread plate for the motor cover and tail fin. It's kind of blinding when the sun is just right. He picked one of the colder days of the year to work on the thing too, but thats Ed!

I have a video of it posted on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/user/Chinook203

Here is the windmill. This test wind turbine was put up on the property around 2am today. We are already reworking the blades some.

Windmills

I've been lax on posting. And no new rock pictures, I really need to get busy with some pictures.
I've had some questions on what to do with rocks besides landscaping.
Visit www.rocktumblinghobby.com There is a ton of wonderful people there that can help with polishing, cabbing, and tons of other things. I'll help with what I know, but the majority, I learned from the people on that website.

In the last week, Ed has been working on a windmill. He's actually been planning this for a long time. The prototype was put up tonight........well, this morning at about 1am. It's short, but looks like a wind turbine. I'll get some pictures and hopefully a video of it spinning tomorrow.

We've had some requests on buying our drusy. We eventually hope to have a website cataloging every piece that is available for sale. As for now, we sell on ebay through ebay ids: mo3fan and rocknutt459. We also have some listed on http://www.blujay.com/mo3fan

2008 Rolla Rural Fire Department Haunted House

Kristine, Joe and Mom

Ed and Brittany

Dinner Room - This room was set up with stuffed "dummies", then there was some empty chairs where we had others dress as dummies. It was a lot of fun.

Spider purchased from a party store, then set up on a pneumatic prop that was motion activated.

A static prop in the spider room

Grim Reaper in the Cemetary

My first beloved tombstone

We are finally done with this year's Rolla Rural Fire Department Haunted House. Well........except for cleanup! We didn't do as many people as we expected, but we had tons of comments that we did even better than last year and lots of comments that it was the best. There was a total of 4 haunted houses in the Rolla area this year, I hope they all did well!