Feather your Nest Friday, 22nd July, 2022.

It has been a week of food and chickens judging by the photos on my phone!  It is cold and I have hit Friday afternoon feeling tired.   With so many experiencing heatwaves I will not complain about our temperatures.

Some of the ways I built up the house, garden and pantry included:-

I finished planting out the Aloe Vera from my Uncles place.  They look great in the garden and I have four in pots to trade with. 

Two big pots, also from my Uncle, were filled with good soil ready to be planted up. 

I picked a bunch of celery and dehydrated it over the fire place.

The lambs were "promoted" to one bottle a day.  They are five weeks old now.   

The incubator had two lots of eggs going and they were a week apart in due dates.   The first lot were chicken eggs and I got five chicks.   The second lot (which were hatching up until yesterday)  gave me five Bantams.  These eggs were from a friend.    They are so cute and different a bit like when the Quail hatched! 

They were full of surprises!  To give you an idea of the sizes here are two Bantams with a week old regular chicken...

I think the next round in my incubator will be more Quail.  This is so much fun! 

I continued on the new baby meal delivery service.   

The Broccolini was from our garden.

Another night was lamb and veggies.

I made Honey Gingerbread biscuits.

Also I did a couple of bigger cook ups.   These both gave me meals plus freezer meals.

First was Chicken Enchiladas... to freeze I assemble them but don't cook any further.

I got 18 Enchiladas all up.

The next day I did a big pot of spaghetti sauce.   I delivered one lot as a hot ready to serve dinner.

I also made up a couple of Pasa bakes.  Cheese sauce is a great stretcher of the meat sauce.   All of these meals were yummy cold weather food.  My ready frozen meals have increased too. 

We have some early signs of Spring.   Wattle is coming out and several bulbs are flowering.

Lucy has been really sick with Covid.  Please pray as she has Fibromyalgia and Migraines and the combination of all three has been just terrible for her.  

Baby Chase is beautiful and doing well.  Little Thomas is so sweet and patient,  he has been a little star.  

I am planning some follow up posts to  Turn a Little into a Lot and Ask and you Shall Receive.   To remind us I am going to ask you how was your week?  How did you build up your home or pantry this week?  Did you find ways to turn a little into a lot?  Did you pray and did you put your needs out there!?   This reminds me of when I wanted Quail eggs.  I did ask around my circle but had no luck.  Yet when I posted the request online I had a reply in under an hour and collected the eggs a week later from my nearest town!  WHY hadn't I asked before!?   Whatever will help you, ask! 

Yesterday I was watching a You Tube video... it was Jess from Roots and Refuge Farm.  The video was called "Yes I am concerned about food."   Over time I have found Jess to be very encouraging and positive.   Always positive.   Something she said was just lovely.  Here it is:   "we need to be focused on making sure there is no shortage of food in our own home and we can do that but it's time to take it really seriously..."  "because I feel pretty confident in my ability to keep shortage out of my home but I want to walk with you to keep it out of your home also..."     

That is what we are doing together and the more we learn the better!  It is amazing what we can do in a week, with a plan!   xxx