Happy Girl Gang Wednesday on Sunday this week

Here's why it took so long to get a post up

Here we have 7 straight run (not sexed)

Buff Orpingtons and 7 straight run Bantys)

I got to sit outside the post office and wait 

for the pouring rain to stop the day they

came before I went into get them.

I stopped at Coop to pick up their Chickstart

and got them quickly home and under the

warming lights.  The one in the bottom picture with

the black spot is a Silver Laced Wyandotte rooster.

The raccoon got my first one out of the big house

when he killed all my bantys.  I do NOT like raccoons 

and now I shut up the chicken houses when I feed

the barn cat.  That way I don't have to worry about

Jeff maybe being late.

 And happy almost 4th of July.

Our Vintage book on sale for half price

 this month is Liberty Garden

and this is one of the quilts in the book.

Besides the large quilt here there is a medium

quilt and quite a few small ones.

Liberty Houses, Liberty Pumpkin, Liberty Eagle

and Liberty Urn.

The BOM pattern on sale this week is

Flags of the American Revolution.

Since I'm posting early this week because I was 

too busy to post last week, I'll post again Wednesday and maybe

give you some more history about the flags.

Flags with a rattlesnake theme also gained increasing prestige with colonists. The slogan "Don't Tread on Me" almost invariably appeared on rattlesnake flags. A flag of this type was the standard of the South Carolina Navy. Another, the Gadsden flag, consisted of a yellow field with a rattlesnake in a spiral coil, poised to strike, in the center. Below the snake was the motto, "Don't Tread on Me." [Available from FlagLine.com.]

Similar was the Culpepper flag, banner of the Minutemen of Culpepper (now spelled Culpeper) County, Virginia. It consisted of a white field with a rattlesnake in a spiral coil in the center. Above the rattlesnake was the legend "The Culpepper Minute Men" and below, the motto, "Liberty or Death" as well as "Don't Tread on Me." [Available from FlagLine.com.]

In December of 1775, an anonymous Philadelphia correspondent wrote to Bradford's Pennsylvania journal concerning the symbolic use of the snake. He began the letter by saying: 

I recollected that her eye excelled in brightness that of any other animal, and that she has no eye-lids. She may, therefore, be esteemed an emblem of vigilance. She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders. She is, therefore, an emblem of magnanimity and true courage. 

It was probably the deadly bite of the rattler, however, which was foremost in the minds of its designers, and the threatening slogan "Don't Tread on Me" added further significance to the design.