Feather your Nest Friday, 2nd April, 2021.

 We made it to April!  I survived April fools Day unscathed.  Andy is home from hospital and doing well! 

Now I am so ready for a "normal" week.   I do not have a lot to report other than getting through the week one step at a time.   If I could offer anything of help it would be that my diary with each day mapped out, looking at each day and what I needed to do that day made me feel organised.   Then repeat.   Truly to "do the next thing."   

Somewhere in the middle I had a couple of days at home.   They were pretty busy with animals and garden watering as we've had a last hoorah of warm days.

I have often mentioned how Eddie and Scout play.  It is not easy to capture photos but they didn't see me and I took a few.

Scout never gives up on the idea of Eddie playing ball.  And she still gives Eddie one of her blankets to sit on every morning.  It amazes me.  I would love to know what they think! 

Mum called over and I made her Gluten Free Scones.   They always look whiter than normal scones due to the whiter flour.   But they are beautiful.  I send her home with them to freeze.

I had a basket of apples that really needed using quickly so I got them into a big stock pot and made up apple puree.   The chickens and Eddie got the peels and cores from this lot.

Before I headed back to get Andy I made a Banana cake for the girls.   I stayed with Lucy's family over night since they live only 20 minutes from the hospital.   This was lovely.  I got a whole evening with them all and could read to Harper and Scarlett and do the baths.  Sidney is crawling around and he is just the most beautiful little boy. 

Harper declared the cake was "the best cake she has ever had."   Then she kept eating and stopped and said "Nan Nan Bel this really is the best cake ever.  It must have been the eggs."    This is sweet because when the girls have been here I say we have to go and collect the eggs then we can make a cake.    If I am there I say how my hens laid the beautiful eggs then I did some cooking.   

Later I cut the cake up into slices to go into Lucy's freezer.   Harpers school lunch box was washed and ready to re load.  It is one with little compartments.  So I carefully cut two pieces of cake and sat them into  two compartments.   Then we added dried pawpaw to another.   So the lunch box was partially made up.

In my days at home I also made up a big pot of spaghetti sauce and added several grated zucchini.  It made such a lot.   I sat some in the fridge knowing after the trip home from hospital we would be tired and that would be dinner.  I took both the girls a big container full.   I think they would get a couple of meals by the time you added pasta or whatever.

When I am cooking now I save all the egg shells.  When the jar fills I smash them down and keep going.  I think my zucchinis needed calcium this season so I am going to add these to the zucchini patch.  

I am really tired today.   Last night Andy had a scare and I had to take him to the hospital.  I was able to take him to our nearest town half an hour away.    Everything was ok.   I was driving home at about 9pm and I hit a Kangaroo.   At night there are deer, Kangaroos and Wombats as the main risks.  The roo was already dead on the road which is some consolation as I don't feel so bad.  My car has damage.  But we made it home.  By the time I got into bed I was so grateful to be home!   As I was saying, bring on some normal days! 

I hope you have a truly Blessed Easter.  Let's have a break and be grateful and consider. I love you all for your notes and prayers. xxx