No Crazy Parties!

Hello!
Thanks for all the messages, well wishers and updates of whats happening in your area. I do enjoy reading snippets of your lives when you get the chance to swing past the comments section
My birthday was, of course quiet and low key.

Jeff got in a little late so we didn’t go for a walk… he was pretty done in.
He got me an awesome present… a merino long sleeved top to add to my hiking wardrobe!
I picked up a couple of merino tops a while back and I adore wearing them on the trail!
So happy to have another lovely one- its so comfy (Yes I was wearing it today!)

I really didn’t do much at all! I think I was on the phone to family for a lot of the day which was lovely. A big ring around catch up!!
I did manage to bake myself a cake.
I planned to make some soap but… just didn’t quite get there and I was dead keen on having some cake!

Support chook is branching out in her eating habits.
I was ‘donated’ a few bags of meat that… well… went funny in someones car because they were pregnant and forgot about it and she was horrified and upset and needed to offload the sorry package.
I chopped it all up small and froze it in bits…
I cooked up meat and potatoes and tempted Dianna with it. She eats the meat and leaves the potatoes (Progress)

Our other girls aren’t nearly so selective haha – greedy guts chooks!

Dianna (The Huntress) also seems to really like baked pumpkin!! Go figure!
Really went for it (That was just in some scraps and she honed in on it)
She is getting heavier. She still forgets how to drink properly from her container. So I let the hose drip for her to get what she wanted. Its a little tedious!! She pecks a little at the wheat now too.

But slugs!! Oh the slugs!
I collected her late tonight to pop back into her cat carrier… but as I came up through the top garden with my head torch on I could see lots of slugs… so I put her down and she woke right up and got into clearing all the slugs in sight.
Can’t say I’ve ever been spotlighting with a chook before!!

I’ve decided to set myself a little challenge. Jeff is on board (Has to be two of us in this).
I will pop back to the supermarket later this week and collect a few things that we will store or freeze and top up on food and kitty litter for Pip, then see how long we can last avoiding the supermarket.
We’ve got lots of food, stored or preserved – or frozen, so we don’t usually go to buy heaps of stuff generally anyway. Often its just staples that we can’t do ourselves.
A good chance to work through the freezers and be creative.
So… it will be interesting.

Thats about all from me.
Hope you are all doing well in your part of the world!
I’ll leave you with a photo of some gorgeous sunflowers that my lovely cousin Fiona dropped off to me!
It was so awesome and so weird. We are having a long distance chat over the driveway, she put flowers down and ran back so I could collect with the ‘wash your hands’ instructions!
Was a lovely boost to my day!
Cheers