Feather your Nest Friday, 16th December, 2022.

I am posting late at night because we had a beautiful party to go to.  I had such a nice time!  After being out it takes me ages to settle down and ever be able to go to sleep.   I am in bed with a cup of tea and happy to look back over the week. 

As we get closer to Christmas I have been making extra treats to gift and share.   I made Coconut Ice which I make every year.  

The pink velvet ribbon was an op shop find and the pink roses were from my friend Wendy.  I dried them ready.   It is delicious too!    I got nine generous pieces wrapped to give and various odds and ends for us.

The recipe for this is here.   With the price of butter being so high this is a sweet treat with no butter at all.

I also made Honey Gingerbread.  I made this with gluten free flour and it turned out just as well.   We really love this.   I gave a tin full to Mum.

This recipe is very easy and it rolls out to cut into shapes so well.   You can find the recipe here.

My cows came up to the fence and got their biscuits.   Not the homemade ones though! 

I am studying their bellies.   Laffie definitely is pregnant.   She has a pretty good side bulge going on.

I will be so excited when they start calving!  Maybe we will get a set of twins?

 

Early in the week I had a day trip away and skipped a day collecting the eggs.  It is cool weather so it doesn't matter too much.    When I went to collect the eggs the next afternoon there were 72!  This is an all time record.   I can tell you 72 eggs are a heavy load!!

I might be far enough ahead on eggs to freeze dry some!

I made a lovely rice salad.  Also I cooked a ham.  Because it's Christmas time hams are a good deal.   I baked a ham and we got several meals from it and many lunches.   Plus still going.... by the end I might chop some up and make a Quiche....    or...  a Zucchini slice as I also have a heap of Zucchinis getting close to ready.  

My garden is going quite well with so many seedlings up.  I have been saying this for several weeks but each week there have been more.  It has not been hot so I have been able to keep them coming on.  If this all continues I am going to have a lot to harvest.

I bought myself a Christmas present.   It is a print but the artist has added hand painting to each print.  She is a local lady very close to here and the flowers are local gums.   So to me it is a perfect picture to have in our home.   I saw it and just loved it.   It is just so true of the bush here.

It really feels like Christmas.   A Christmas party added to this and on the way home some of the farmhouses had lights.   We watched a stunning sunset and drank moscato overlooking beautiful vineyards.  It was hard to take haha! 

How did you build up your home this week?  How are your Christmas plans coming along?  Let us all think of someone extra,  even a small gesture can mean such a lot to someone.  xxx