Feather your Nest Friday, 17th September, 2021.

We had beautiful Spring weather all week.   This had me outside a lot.  

Some of the ways I built up our home and got ahead were:

I dehydrated a bag of mushrooms I got on a really good deal.

I made two light fruit cakes using Dad's favourite recipe.

Each day I did a little bit of sewing.  This way I made a dress for Scarlett.  She asked for Kookaburras.

And a skirt for Harper.   I have a lot of plain t shirts to get out too, the ones I was given and washed up.  Some of these will go with the skirt just nicely.

I altered a little skirt I found that will fit both the girls. They share clothes as they are the same size. 

I was given 10 huge garbage bags of shredded paper.   I used most of it to mulch around the fruit trees and then watered it in.  It was enough to do all the trees then fill some nesting boxes for the chickens.   I am amazed how many free resources there are.  You just have to get word out to the right places! 

Our bee man gave us a tub of honey. 

I planted out 12 pumpkins,  8 Zucchini,  10 Tomato plants and tomorrow I have more to go.   I am doing a lot of weeding at the same time.  The goats love all the weeds so it is a win win.   I've given myself a bad knee from all the digging... but I notice the goats love the root systems as much as the tops of plants and this has kept me digging and making my knee worse! 

After watering today I covered some of my seedlings with old door screens until they get a bit bigger.

I planted up a Cucumber patch.  I really hope I can grow these successfully! 

Chloe gave me some pots so I filled and stacked them for an extra herb space.

Today I noticed the first Sunflowers are peeking through from my plantings last week.

If we could get some rain it would be wonderful.  The forecasts says yes so really hoping as things will do so much better with some rain on them.

All this outside work and the joy of some sewing made for a good week.   There is nothing like fresh air and sunshine to give you a good nights sleep.   No the news is not good.  So many people are impacted terribly,  separated from family,  loss of jobs and businesses and more.  Overall everyone I speak to is anxious and does not like the direction things are going.   I always talk about keeping our homes as a haven.  So much we can do at home and then in the community to encourage and help.   

Our neighbours and community really need our support. We can be a thousand speed bumps in the road to their ruin if we:

Support local businesses.  Get to know the people.   Frequent the small shops.

If you can't do that see if you can do online ordering from these small local shops.

Do you have farmers markets, local farms, road side sellers... support those.

Give help to local needs.    There are so many!   If visiting the lonely is not allowed write letters and send cards.  

We live in a world now that to be kind you have to be tenacious! 

Ok so tenacious we shall be!  

Now I have a secret.

Coming soon!

Now how did you build up your home, add to your pantry or garden? xxx