Say It With Parsley

I had a lovely afternoon catching up with a friend – also a ‘down the road- across a couple of paddocks-neighbour’.

I got a message that a tray of brownies had just come out of the oven, so I really put my skates on to get down there ASAP!!

“Have another one” “Noooo – I am trying to walk off some of my excess muffin top you know?” “Oh go on” “A small piece…” “Sure” “mmm… maybe the middle sized piece!”

Cindy and her family are planning on heading off on a Grand Adventure at the end of the year! They bought a whacking great bus and are refitting it into being a motor home & spending a year travelling around Australia!

I hadn’t been introduced to the bus yet or seen the progress so it was pretty impressive to go in and check it all out!

The roof of the bus has been raised and it really feels incredibly spacey inside. The little kitchen seems very workable despite being compact – well… it seemed bigger than I expected to find in a bus with full sized stove and good sized fridge!

The kids bedrooms have good space for their things, privacy curtains and are separated from the main bedroom by the bathroom and shower – small but impressive spaces.

I must say I am a little envious about the disappearing pantries!!

Such an upcoming adventure for them – will look forward to following their progress around the country!

In Other News.

Its still Raining.

And Blowing a Gale!

But the last two mornings we have started out with the sun throwing colourful sparkles from the chandelier in the hallway

Today in a fit of extreme optimism I put a load of washing on… Then as it got closer to finishing, the clouds also got closer… so I chickened out (rightly so) and hung them under cover on the veranda.

Its actually amazing how far along dry you can get the clothes even on a wet day. They didn’t take long to finish off in front of the fire this evening. (We don’t have a drier so there is no choice about just shoving them in one to do the job.)

I also made the chickens a pot of mashed potato – mixed with a bit of milk and some other leftovers

Pip decided he needed a taste of course

The chickens scarfed it down like no-ones business! The new girls are yet to get into the swing of things when it comes to gobbling up scraps, but I am sure they will get the hang of it soon

Our girls lay fairly consistently – even through winter. Granted, we don’t get three foot of snow (Actually we get no snow) but even other local chickens don’t do as well as ours I hear… might be something to do with the warm food and general spoiling? Or maybe we have just been lucky.

I sold three dozen yesterday.

I sell ours to family/friends at $4 per doz. which I think is a really good price. Supermarket ‘free range’ (FR eggs are often not exactly that free range either) can be up around $7-8 per dozen.

What do people pay for free range eggs around your end of the world?

Time for me to snuggle down in bed – going to grab a Terry Pratchett book and read while listening to the wind and rain howl outside.

The occasional extras can be seen on my facebook page

Cheers

PS Pip was so happy I got out the clothes horse again – his sleeping place of choice in the cooler months – on the top rack of the apparatus, right in front of the fire! I got loud purrs, kneading paws and several concussing level head-butts!! 🙂