Feather your Nest Friday, 17th January, 2025.
I am so glad to get to sit here quietly watching the sun go down and look over the week. It is perfectly still outside. Also it seems to me January is going by quickly!
The first things I did was to use up the rest of the apricots. I did another round of jam, ate them fresh and stewed some more.
And also I shredded a heap more zucchini which I am very pleased with.
I have another bag of Zucchini. This week I will make a slice and then freeze chunks for Autumn and Winter soups. Believe me Autumn cannot come soon enough. Some of our days have been really hot. They sap your energy!
On such days I have worked mainly inside and I managed some Happy Mail!
Then the girls came to stay. We had a great time. We did tie dying t shirts, lots of crafts and then we made Honey Crackles. I big tray to take home...
And another try to deliver to Chloe and her gang...
This is how he walked out to serve them. He was so proud!
Look at that little face. 😊 They were beautiful too, I think the girls scoffed two each.
I had six chickens hatch. Scarlett had to carry a chicken around most of the time she was here.
Of course we visited Nana Pat. They both want to ride the Grannymobile.
They both fed Justice ... in various states of pyjamas and clothes...
On Wednesday my helpers were here. We were having lunch on the front deck and we heard a huge cracking sound. And boom down came a big branch of a gum tree. It had been very hot. After heat it is common for them to drop branches. Luckily the girls were not out on the lawn.
The leaves all went to the goats. It was cleaned up right away. Then on the way to town I saw so many huge branches had fallen on the sides of the roads and some over the roads but had been dragged off and cut up.
Although I had no time to sew or crochet I did have supplies come in. A friend sent me this beautiful fabric.... and I had some panels arrive for pot holders plus some cotton yarn! So I am set and ready to go! My goal has been to get sewing and producing before January disappears.
I really hope you found lots of ways to build up your family, nest, pantry and more this week.xxx
Annabel, what a lovely week with your Granddaughters, it sounds like they had a lot of fun on this visit and so thankful they were not out on the lawn when the limb came down.
ReplyDeleteYou have been very productive, even with all the time spent with the girls. Love your apricot jam.
I haven't creative this week. I decided to go to my basement and deep clean my library/craft room. Oh my! lots of work there and still not done. Just going through totes and getting them better organized took so much time.
The room is also a catch all, I found medical, canning, even canned foods, seems bags were just placed on the floor. So I went through those and put things away with like items.
Sooner I hope than later I will have the room completed. I did find a variety of blue yarns, it looks like enough to make an afghan, so I was thinking a granny square with black borders as I found black yarn.
I found partly finished crochet projects, so in the evening I sat and dismantled them to make something new.
So really in a way I have been productive though haven't created anything.
Prayers for all the Bluebirds.