Feather your Nest Friday, 23rd April, 2021.

 It was a lovely week, full of good things.   We had rain and the girls came to stay as it is school holidays. So it was all go but lovely.

Some of the ways we built up the home this week were:

I cut Andy's hair for him.

I continued to plant everything my neighbour gave me.  And I can report the fig tree I planted from digging up a bit at my sister in laws has sprouted fresh new leaves.  It is off and running!


It is exciting to see when something takes off...or when something comes up as is the case with my carrot patch. 

I made two slabs of banana cake with bananas that needed using up.  I iced and sliced one then cut it up and froze it to send home with the girls for school lunch boxes.   I kept some which they ate while here.  The other I made gluten free and sliced and froze for myself when I have a sweet craving.

I have 10 new chickens!  I ordered them from a lady along with four point of lay hens for Chloe.  Mine are four weeks old.  I have never bought them this way before.   I have an old cage that was my Dad's.   It is just right as it is low but roomy and protected.  To get ready I set it up with hay, lots of it as the weather was cooling.  I had two big blankets to cover it at night.   The hens are the cute/ugly stage!  



They are quite tame and will be super good to handle as they get older.   I am very pleased anyhow as I hope this ensures eggs for a long time ahead. 



The girls had a good time.   They helped with everything so happily.  I had them do as much themselves that they could.  So they fed, watered and helped me wrap the blankets around the chickens at night.


I take every opportunity to teach them.   The first night when we put away the chickens that free range... I said how we must know how many chickens we have and count them twice before we shut them up for the night.   The next evening they both counted twice and said "ok, they are all there we can shut the door." 
I told them if one is left out it might be taken by a fox in the night.   If one is missing we go looking for it. This is the story of the Good Shepherd right there!  

We collected the eggs.  I stay out of it and they have done this enough times they don't break any and they know where to look.   



Back in the kitchen we packed the clean eggs into cartons and washed the dirty ones.   The eggs are packed with the pointy end down.   Much debating was necessary with some eggs as they were fairly round and which end was pointy needed long consideration.   But they packed the eggs ready to go into the next cake!  :)   As they were doing this I got on with other things.    I thought I bet many adults don't know how to pack eggs.   Then Andy walked through and asked why they were considering each egg so extensively.  I explained.  He said he never knew that.  I rest my case. 

We went to see Aunty Chloe and little Thomas.  Chloe took us to see her Alpaca's which the girls love!  Then we picked figs.   Already fig picking experts the girls got quite a few each.  I dug up several small fig trees.   Chloe's are the beautiful big fat purple figs.  I took the spade with me.    It was tough digging!  We replanted one of these trees right away when we got home.   The rest went into water.   I would love one of these trees growing in my orchard. And I already did a trade with someone... fig tree cuttings or root systems for roosters!   I decided I always have at least one broody chicken.  I should be hatching chickens.    My specifications are a rooster must be friendly and docile.  Roosters that chase you are no good.  My friend tells me she has very good roosters with nice manners.  So we made a deal to swap eggs and fig trees for one Pekin Bantam rooster  (as I have two Pekin Bantam hens) and one bigger rooster suitable to breed with the laying hens.   This is all lined up for next week.  

The girls and I took paper bags and cardboard boxes up behind the house to collect pinecones and sticks for Mummy's fire.   For anyone who has a real fire a box of kindling is a welcome gift of help.  Our pine trees have the hugest pinecones I have ever seen.   I picked up one and said "look at this beauty!!"  and explained the idea was to help Mum start a new fire and take them home for her.   Within minutes the bags and boxes were full.  "Look at his beauty!" was declared over and over when a big pinecone was found.  I watched and saw Harper with her foot on sticks to break them up into smaller sticks exactly as I do.  


A couple were very tough and we stepped on them together.  I noticed how thrilled they were to learn and help.   This reminded me of how my Nan B was in regard to collecting wood.  Dad and I were out one day picking mushrooms and it was so much fun.  I said to him how much Nan would have loved it!  He agreed and said how Nan could go collecting wood and pick up a stump and say "isn't this a beautiful stump!?" and I knew what he meant.  She loved collecting!  (A stump is a chunk of wood usually that has been a tree stump.)  The joy of being outside and achieving something.  The happiness of a good day when you put your head on the pillow.  All so wonderful. 

We  also went over the dirt track and the hills and valleys to visit Nan Nan Pat.  They both said it was the worst and most bumpy road they ever went on.  I put my foot down on hills so we went whooshing down and the screamed with delight lol. We saw lots of deer.  I was explaining how the male deer have the antlers and that they fall off every year and grow a new set.   We saw deer with huge antlers!   As the grass was very low at one point I thought I spotted an antler in the paddock.  I veered off the track and circled around and low and behold yes there was an antler.  I said watch out the window!  They both saw it and were so excited.  We collected this antler and they decided it would be a present for Dad and he would for sure love it. 

Mum had made us sausage rolls and had lunch all ready and the girls were "starving" apparently just in time.    This was a beautiful day.

Yesterday Mum came here and we took the girls home together and saw Lucy and Sidney as well.  Another nice day! 

So that was my week.  I am excited for my swaps coming up and the prospect of my own chickens. 

I hope you had opportunities to add to your pantry, garden or home in some way.  I would love to hear! xxx




















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  1. It sounds like a wonderful week!

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  2. What a beautiful week. The girls will remember what they learn from you forever, and then pass those lessons on to their children, and the love will continue. Wayne took me away for a week, to get away from well everything really. Our year so far has been dreadful and I was about to fall in a heap, so off we went. We ended up in the Buckland Valley, just out of Bright and it was glorious. I found three new to me op shops in Bright and Myrtleford and collected lots of jars for Hannah and doyleys and tablecloths and table runners for both of us, and a great find for 25c - a pair of long steel 5.5mm knitting needles! I had been looking for them, now my long steel set is complete. As we were travelling around I was always looking for things for Hannah's new house to help her get started. Lots of Tupperware brand canisters and a large lettuce thing and a butter dish for hard cheese (I use mine for hard cheese, it's ideal). We camped on the river, and had a very friendly kookaburra visit us every morning and afternoon. We could hear deer on the other side of the river at night, it was close to this spot that we had a big buck use our 4wd as a scratching post one night, didn't get that close this time. We collected firewood every morning and had a roaring fire to keep warm at night. Roast beef in the camp oven, with veggies and gravy; steak over the fire with veggies; even good old jaffles for lunch. And the continuously boiling billy for tea and coffee. The forecast was for a very heavy dump of snow on Wednesday night and I was a little excited but it missed us! No phone, no internet unless we went into Bright, no TV - it was bliss! I took knitting to work on while I was sitting, and it was so nice to sit and listen to the birds while I was knitting in the sunshine. Then this afternoon on our way home we felt the hand of God protecting us. We were almost home, about an hour and a half away, and a car going the other direction lost a 9kg gas bottle and it hit the front of our car, we drove over it, it bounced up between the car and the camper and then the camper rolled over it. I thought the camper was going to tip over it bounced so high and landed so hard. No damage - to us, to the car or to the camper! It could have been awful, as we had oncoming traffic on one side and a steep drop down a bank on the other. The three cars behind us all managed to escape any damage too. Now we're home again, I'm about to head to bead and get off this computer. Cath xxx

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    1. Oh, boy! So thankful God protected you, Cath🙏🏻

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    2. Dear Cath, Wayne knew what you needed! It sounds like a beautiful time (in spite of the near miss on the way home!) and finding new op shops and such good things! This is my idea of fun too! I hope you are feeling better overall from it.
      I am keeping the TV off. This alone improves my life. I am sorry the year has been so bad for you. Last year and this year have, it seems, been incredibly difficult for so many. Not just due to corona virus etc but it seems everything else like health and family, economic/jobs and more. It is overwhelming.
      Have a good and restful weekend Cath. With much love Annabel.xxx

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    3. I am so glad that you and your husband are ok, Cath! What a fright.

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  3. Hi Annabelle, what a wonderful week you have had. So lovely read especially in light of your previous ones.

    Just a word of warning make sure that your hay and chook food has not been sprayed with anything related to the Chemical Grazon. It's been used in the USA on grass crops eg corn and hay. It causes no harm to animals and passes straight through but lasts indefinitely in soil. There was a commercial compost company in Victoria that reportedly had their products tainted with it.With the amount of grain that was imported recently to feed livestock there is a good chance that there is wider spread issue now in Australia.
    I would hate to see all your hard work undone.

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    1. Dear Diinaus,
      I have been learning about Grazon from Danny on Deep South Homestead. But I had not heard of it before that. I am lucky that my hay comes from my brother and I can know what he uses. He grows hay not very far away from us. I wish these terrible chemicals were never used. I dont like to use any poisons here in my own garden. Thank you for mentioning it as it helps educate everyone to be cautious. With much love Annabel.xxx

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  4. That story was just so beautiful! This could be an Aussie version of
    “Little House on the Prairie”!

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    1. I second that Rachel! :)
      You had a wonderful week Annabel.
      We are enjoying beautiful weather here in my part of the UK, but the ground is becoming dry now and I think the farming community is hoping for some rain soon. I heard they were experiencing similar in parts of the US?
      We took a trip out to a local garden and had a picnic. Planting veg is continuing and much to my youngest Childs protests, so is home ed ;)
      With lighter evenings, my son and his dad play their version of Wimbledon most evenings right now....they call it 'yard tennis'!
      Wishing you a wonderful weekend.
      Much love
      Heidi xxx

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    2. That is about the nicest thing you could say Rachel! Thank you!

      Dear Heidi,
      Good job on still planting and teaching at home. That makes you a pretty busy Mum!
      We are the opposite and now the evenings are so dark!! I love that your son and his Dad are out there playing and enjoying the evenings!
      I had such a restful day today, I hope the same for you!
      With love Annabel.xxx

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  5. How wonderful that you are teaching the girls so many things. They are at the age that they soak it all up like a sponge. I just love that you are passing on great ways of life.
    Sounds like you all had some great adventures and wonderful times.

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    1. Dear Cheryl, I notice how the girls quickly copy what I do and ask so many questions! I want to teach them to crochet next!
      Have a lovely weekend! With love Annabel.xxx

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  6. Hi Annabel (and everyone),

    Annabel, I so enjoyed reading about your time with the girls and seeing all the lovely pictures! It has put a big smile on my face this morning. What a nice visit you had, and I have learned something about how to pack eggs, too.

    It has been an unusual few weeks for us as we are back working on-site - our workplace is phasing out work from home - and it has been an adjustment with less time at home outside of work. We pulled a bunch of weeds (our neighbors have hemlock, which means we have hemlock! and pull it as quickly as we can to prevent it from going to seed), trimmed our bushes and trees, and cleaned up the rest of the yard from winter, putting down some nice soil for flower seeds around the fence line. We'll see if my saved zinnia seeds from last year grow! I've also been packing our lunches and baking ahead for bread for lunchtime sandwiches and treats for after dinner conversation with a cup of tea (this week is chocolate chip bars); I roasted up a big turkey breast and made a batch of spaghetti sauce so there would be dinners in the freezer. My husband changed all of the air filters in the house and did some maintenance on our car, saving us a bundle.

    We had a moment of "excitement" that truly seems to have been somewhat miraculous in its resolution. A few weeks ago we brought a new kitten into our home; her name is Zoe and she is so playful and exuberant (and a good snuggler). On our first day back to in-person work, we returned home to a very odd smell coming from our living room. Miss Zoe had knocked over a table lamp onto the floor, knocking my knitting project bag off the side table, too. These lamps have a pull chain to turn them on, and she had somehow managed to turn the light on, too. The lit light bulb was pressed right up against my knitting bag, which had scorched horribly (and scorched the yarn inside - I knew wool is not supposed to burn well, but here is definitive proof!), but it did not set alight and our home was fine aside from a really spectacular odor - easily fixed with some open windows! It gives me chills how easily this small accident could have gone horribly wrong, and I am so thankful all is well! (We now unplug those lamps before we leave for the day.)

    For fun, we have been reading books from our home library and also having an "at-home" movie date with fresh popcorn and a dvd from our collection. (We have also borrowed them from our local library.) It has become a fun tradition for us to do this every weekend! I've also been working on some knitting for gifts and cross-stitching for home decor when I have a few minutes free. Those minutes really do add up and I can see progress after a few days of "a few minutes" of stitching.

    I hope everyone has a good weekend.
    <3
    Kathy

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    1. Dear Kathy, This is interesting as I am wondering if some businesses will keep work at home... but for you this will mean quite a new routine again.
      It sounds like you will have beautiful flowers around your yard. I love flowers.
      Right now I am thawing a frozen turkey breast! Doing the same thing! We think alike! I love Turkey!
      Wow you are so blessed that lamp didn't cause a disaster! What a scare. Wool is good stuff!
      Your weekend tradition sounds beautiful. And the minutes do add up on projects I have especially proven this with crochet and sewing. Its amazing.
      Have a lovely weekend! With love Annabel.xxx

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  7. Lovely post! I could visualize you and the two girls on your adventures ;). Also read a reply by Cath Armstrong, how fun to see her name there as well. You two are bright stars in my frugal world, so I greatly enjoy reading your comments.

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    1. Thank you soo much! Oh what a compliment! Thank you! xxx

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  8. Thanks so much for your post. My first attempt at a comment doesn’t appear to have worked so here is try number two! Loved the writings of your time with the two girls. Wow, they are so cute and growing so fast ;). And I was so happy to see a comment by Cath Armstrong! You two are bright stars in my frugal world!

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    1. It worked... I just sometimes take a little while to put the posts up. Thank you for posting! xxx

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  9. What a wonderful story. Brings back so many memories for me. Spending summers on my Grandma’s farm where I learned to churn butter, cook on a wood stove and help with the plowing. Due to a mean rooster, could not collect eggs unless grandma was there. One day the rooster attacked Grandpa and we had chicken and dumplings for dinner. 😉 God bless you and yours. Stay safe and healthy.

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    1. Dear Terri,
      Thank you! We spent many summers with our Grandparents at the beach. They rented a house for a week every year. We enjoyed that so much! Crockpot conversion therapy is what I call what happened to your rooster! They can be mean and really hurt so I dont have much sympathy if they are this way!
      With love,
      Annabel.xxx

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  10. Dear Annabel,

    What a lovely recounting of your time with the girls. I felt like I was right there with you all, too! They are such cute and helpful little girls. It's amazing how much little ones can really do, and how much they want to be helpful and useful, if we just give them a chance, and make the effort to teach them! I am excited for you about your new roosters. You're right, nasty ones are no good, and those ones are often awful to the hens, too...we once had one that had the feathers off the backs of all of our Barred Rocks on a continual basis...they looked awful and laid poorly, too. So a "friendly" rooster is a much better deal!

    We've had some beautiful spring weather, and I've got some radishes up in a raised bed. It'll still be over a month until I can plant the main garden. I worked on pruning some roses, and found a chunk that was growing far out into the lawn away from the main plant, so I dug it up and transplanted it to the opposite end of the flower bed...here's hoping! Getting close to painting the kids' room...we had a big clean/toss out yesterday, and will do another one in the next few days. Hoping next weekend we can have everything moved out and just blitz the painting. (We'll see if my goal becomes reality! :))

    Hoping you have a lovely weekend!

    xx Jen in NS

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    1. Dear Jen,
      Thank you. Life is so busy that time seems to be the most valuable thing. To be able to take the time to do things together, explain and teach... well I really see how important this is.
      The rooster you describe... he would be off for crockpot rehabilitation fast for me. I am hoping g the ones I get are nice. They were hatched in incubators and are meant to be nice anyway!
      I remember when you painted your room the pretty blue. The kids bedroom will be lovely ... painting seems to cause a spring clean and re arrange all in one! With much love, Annabel.xxx

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  11. Hi Annabel,
    What a lovely week. I feel lately like I blink and it's Friday again. Lots of garden work to get things ready for spring planting. My strawberry plants came and I need to re-vamp the bed for them. We got five inches of snow on Tuesday night, really, really late for snow in Ohio, but it melted off by the afternoon. So wonderful that you are teaching the girls so many things. I was the same with my grandparents, helping and learning. LOL I loved the comment about the careful consideration of each egg. I do know the reason why. How lovely to find a deer antler. I've looked in the fields nearby each autumn, but no luck so far. Blessings, Laura

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    1. Dear Laura,
      The weeks are going past fast and the months... I feel the same.
      I hope your strawberry plants survived the snow ok. Ok the eggs... it is something to do with lasting longer and yolk distribution. I wondered a while ago if it was a myth or true so I checked they do last longer this way.
      Have a lovely weekend! With love Annabel.xxx

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  12. There's nothing like a visit with the grandchildren! We had two of ours here last week and loved every minute, too!

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    1. I am glad you got to spend time with your Grandchildren Lana. I know they would have had a lovely time! xxx

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  13. Lovely post, Annabel! What wonderful lives and foundation you are helping to give those little girls. I love how they learn from you and mimic your actions. Passed down generation to generation...what a tremendous gift.
    💖Mary in SD

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    1. Dear Mary, I was encouraged in scripture and Bible studies how a Grandparent can influence many generations. This made me think about it. I was very influenced by my Grandparents and this must have been many things they had passed on to them. So it is true. I love this! Have a beautiful weekend! With love, Annabel.xxx

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    2. So true! Your post made me remember my paternal grandmother. She introduced me to rhubarb when I was little. She had it growing on her farm. (I've been a great fan ever since!). I also remember her putting out a cookie sheet with water in it "for the bees to drink". At the time, I thought that was a strange thing to do...now, I think it was lovely and considerate. We were little city kids and these memories are from brief visits during Summer time. They lived in Missouri. 💖Mary again ;)

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  14. Such wonderful adventures you have all had this week!

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    1. Thank you Chipmunk! I hope your new week has been going well! xxx

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  15. Hi Annabel, What a great week it sounds like you had. Glad you fig tree is doing well and congratulations on new chickens. It is so much fun sharing with your grandkids teaching them how to do things. They are adorable. In the house we lived in before here a couple of our grandkids enjoyed picking raspberries. Now that we have just a courtyard we still try to grow a little fruit and now it is the great grandkids that I am having fun sharing with. Your baking always sounds delicious. Nancy

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    1. Dear Nancy,
      I would love to pick raspberries. I think the closest thing I have picked is Mulberries. All berries are good! A courtyard can still be quite productive so that would be really nice. With love, Annabel.xxx

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  16. Dear Annabel, thankyou for another lovely post. My grandmother went to heaven when I was just 11. I learned so much from her following her around her garden, the kitchen and her chooks. I am in my 40s and will suddenly be doing something in the garden (that I don't remember knowing) and realize I learnt it from her all those years ago. I can still picture her making seed holes and myself dropping seeds in. So I loved hearing about your grand girls helping you and you teaching them. Your legacy will be far reaching Annabel. I have had a good week too. My house is clean and I spent two whole days in the garden catching up on planting and repotting. It feels good. Earlier in the week I attempted to get ahead with meals. One morning I made your Impossible pie for the next day as I knew I had a school meeting. I intended to make fried rice later in the day for that night's tea. Late afternoon a neighbor asked if we could help install their big bird aviary. Well it took longer than anyone thought. I was so grateful and happy to walk through our door late and be able to serve your Impossible pie up in five minutes. Today I baked Anzac biscuits (I used Wendy's recipe from My Abundant Life blog) . I doubled the batch so I have plenty to share. I then used Rhonda's from Down to Earth blog basic muffin recipe to use up some over ripe banana's on the bench. Lastly I made a Toblerone cheesecake to share with neighbors tonight who are making homemade pizza's for our tea. Also yesterday I went to an opp shop and found a full ski suit in my daughter's size - even though I wasn't looking for it. It is a nice purple color. It was near the register, as I looked at it I remembered she is going on a school camp - skiing at the beginning of July and would need one. I thanked God for literally putting it in front of my face as I had not thought that far ahead yet. At $25 it was within my budget. I also found rainbow wool - now I can crochet a rainbow blanket for my niece's birthday who requested just that - a rainbow blanket for her bed. Love Clare

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    1. Dear Clare, It is beautiful you still learned from your Grandmother and remember so much. It was great you got so much done and lovely time outside planting and potting etc. I have had days like that now too with such nice weather for it.
      It was lovely you could help your neighbour and still get dinner on the table! That was good!
      It was amazing to get the ski suit when you needed one. Quite likely alter you could re sell it even!
      I am wondering if the rainbow blanket is for the niece you mentioned before. I have been praying for her. If you tell her the meaning of the rainbow that could make the gift even more special. I am sure to get the children to know Gods message in the rainbow so they know what it really means and how beautiful that is. I would love to see this when you are finished it will be gorgeous!
      Hope your week is going well! With love Annabel.xxx

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  17. Hi Annabel, those little girls are growing up with such wonderful memories. They are learning so many new skills and having fun all at the same time.
    I have been on a road trip with Katie, Jared and Sue, Jared's Mum. We went to a big baby wares store further down the coast. Thankfully we had a good trip both ways. The kids were able to get all that they needed to start the physical setting up of the Nursery. Sue and I had fun looking at all the baby things with both of us getting excited at the prospect of the upcoming Grandie arrival.
    I was completely amazed by how much some things cost. One very simply looking pram was 1
    $1650. There was a young woman there with her Mum and that is the pram they ended up buying. Some of the baby sleeping bags I have made were on special for $60, reduced from $85. This was for newborn size. Oh my goodness.
    I have made curtains for the caravan on old Irene. This machine handles the rubber backing and the various thicknesses of the fabric so much better than my electric modern machine. I collected half a bucket of passionfruits off the vine and this became two bottles of passionfruit cordial. Tomorrow I plan on picking Rosella fruits and making more jam. There are a whole new flush of flowers so there will be more fruit. This is the last lot of jam making. Any new fruits will be collected and dried for a delicious Vitamin C rich tea for Winter. Add is some dried lemon balm and it will be wonderful tasting health boosting formula.
    The kids decided the cot Bluey made for our now almost 5 yr old Grandie, wasnt for them. He is still going ahead with refurbishing it. It will either go in our house for bubs visits or we will sell it. He is also working on the finishing touches of a new potting table for me. He is waiting to get the right steel mesh from the tip for the table top.
    My folks came to stay for a couple of days. The drove up in Dad's 1930 A Model Ford. We sent them home with apple pies((Home made), pumpkin, bak choy, eggs, fruit bread and plenty of biscuits. I packed them a picnic bag so that they could just stop at a nice park and have lunch on the way home. I also sent them home with an old thermos of ours so they could have a cup of coffee.
    We will be found in the driveway for the dawn service tomorrow for ANZAC Day.
    Lest we Forget.

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    1. Dear Jane, The trip would have been very exciting. And eye opening! Lovely for the young couple though.
      I had my own eye opening shopping experience this week in a menswear store. I looked at jackets, scarves, wool jumpers etc. Most jumpers were around the $300 mark and sleeveless vests around $150 plus. Scarves $80. The more I looked the more I kept going out of curiosity!
      It is great how your old machine is so helpful. She has a new lease of life!
      The vitamin C tea would be good. Another good thing to have.
      It will probably be very handy to have a cot at your house for a couple of years. I have found having a cot has been really good.
      I know your parents would have had a wonderful time! What a nice week. With much love, Annabel.xxx

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  18. Dear Annabel,
    What a wonderful week with your grand daughters. I love how willing they are to learn everything you have to teach them. Just reading about your week and seeing them reminded me of all the things my paternal grandmother taught me about gardening, preserving food, baking etc. She had such a green thumb, like you. She was not shy about knocking on someone's door if she saw a rose bush or other plant that she would like to grow and would ask if she could cut a slip, which would then be put in her garden under a mason jar and a rose bush or other plant would take root and grow.
    It has been a productive week here. I made 4 dozen English muffins for my husband using the recipe from Bigger Bolder Baking. For myself, some gluten free flatbreads for sandwiches using coconut flour and arrowroot flour. I, too made your Impossible Pie for dinner one night this week and froze the leftovers for another meal.
    It was served with salad and rice with pesto. The sweet potato slips that have been growing are now detached from the potato and are in water rooting getting ready to be planted. We washed all the windows in the house . We made a trip out to the farm for eggs and then drove through the orchards to see the apple blossoms. Thankfully, the freeze we were supposed to have didn't happen and the blossoms were safe. I have been feeling a nudge to have more meals premade and in the freezer so that's what I've been doing . Wishing everyone a good week ahead. Blessings, Cookie

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    1. Dear Cookie, I am glad you have such nice memories. Im not sure if I have a green thumb but I keep at it. I am learning!
      I have never grown sweet potatoes. I would really love to try. I will look into this!
      There is nothing like sparkling windows! Your drive to the farm and thought the orchards sounds like a perfect day to me.
      Good work on the meals. I am doing the same. I think I should do some chicken soup too as we are going into winter weather. I have been plating up whole ready to go meals and freezing. It is like insurance!
      I hope your week is going well! With much love, Annabel.xxx

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  19. Dear Annabel, I love that the girls came to stay. What precious times you are all having.I will never forget the times with my grandparents. I wouldn't trade that time with them for anything in the world. The time that you spend with them now, will be carried inter hearts forever and will make a lasting impression. I thank my parents and grandparents for where I am today, who gave me so much time. I gratefully received two pairs of shoes for my youngest from freebie list. My husband chicken proofed a vege bed and we planted it out. We have sweet potatoes growing well. I keep feeling a little on edge about what is next. But then I think of all I can do to keep the fires burning at home so to speak. Good food, routines, rest, fresh air and time in the garden, as well as stories and hugs in bed. Love to all Bluebirds

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    1. Dear Lily, It sounds like you had wonderful Grandparents! You have treasure memories and it is so nice to hear this.
      It is so good your veggie garden is planted. I hope it is all looking good. You know, I always think of the phrase "keep the home fires burning." It is usually the best thing we can do. I agree with your wholesome and good list. These are the things we need. Fresh air, sunshine and happy days. We might work hard but it is a good feeling to finish the day feeling happy with what we achieved. We sleep well then! Lovely. With love, Annabel.xxx

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  20. I cannot stop smiling over your time with the girls and all that you did together! What a lovely post...I almost forgot that I was also reading of all the frugal things you'd done, too, lol!

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    1. Thank you Terri! Yes we managed to do a lot together and none of it seemed like work! I hope you are having a good week! xxx

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