Feather your Nest Friday, 18th April, 2025. Good Friday.

It is Good Friday and Easter weekend.  Before Easter I prayed that I could learn and grow during Lent and concentrate at least for a little while each day on some study and prayer.

Well... there is the saying about be careful for what you pray for as indeed I was delivered a whole bunch of lessons in humility and appreciation.  They have not been lost on me at least!   Sometimes lessons are not easy ones! 

It is still dry and it has still been like summer.   I didn't think the paddocks could be worse but they are.  I actually avoid looking.  

Suddenly this week I felt unprepared for Easter Sunday!   Then I remembered!  I had dried and candied a whole heap of figs from Chloe's tree.   They taste delicious and so chewy which is good!

I got busy and dipped these through chocolate and packaged them up.   It gave me about twenty gifts!  And I still had spares!  

In my imaginings these would be expensive in a store.   Today I had a guest and was able to send them away with two dozen eggs and a box of chocolates.  This felt so good!

These were so easy to do, so delicious and inexpensive... I will make them again next year as long as the tree has figs!

Easter eggs have become so expensive.   Over in The Tuesday Afternoon Club this was a subject.  There is no rule you have to buy Easter chocolates.   Over the years I have made fudge, muffins,  slices,  brownies....  all sorts of things for a fraction of the price and fed many more people.

As you know Mum and I collaborate to give the Grandkids/ Great Grandkids warm pjs and things for winter, since Easter usually marks the cold season.   I have these ready too and am so pleased with how nice they are.   So I was prepared after all!  

I set up my worm farm!  I never fancied this until I felt God dropped a worm farm at my feet and I felt I should do it.  It turns out it is actually fun and not revolting as I thought!    I officially have worms.  haha.  

I did all the things... soaked the coir in water,  set up the container and filled it with worms...  when I bought these I was so hoping they came in a can (can of worms) but they came in a box.   

I had shredded paper, compost and things to feed them.  So we are off and running!

I needed to buy more hay.   I rang a guy that has sold me hay before.   So he arrived and my helpers were on hand to unload it.

The pile on the left is my compost pile.  I was able to give away a whole trailer of compost as a gift this week and it made no visible difference.

I am set up for the weekend.  The ute is connected to the trailer.  Or vice versa?  The trailer is loaded with hay.   All I have to do is drive out in the paddock, push the bales off and yay.  I am sure I will get some great photos as the cows chase the tractor so I am sure they will help my unload the trailer.

I am getting a bucket of eggs a day!

Over the weekend there is a man I know plus his mate at the cabin.   He arrived with gifts.  Three brand new (larger size)  fire extinguishers and a fire hose on a reel!   Fabulous!   And also a big box of veggies...

Today I made a menu plan...  mostly cooking I will do after the school holidays and with no kids here... and then I got celery into the freeze drier and I plan to fd most of the cabbage also.

My cook up was Lasagne.  I made three, one of them GF for Mum.   The next day I sliced hers into eight dinners and wrapped and froze them.  She always cooks for everyone else  so now she will have some easy meals.

More seedlings are up.   I made a trellis with the mesh Mum gave me.   (This is for some of the peas.)  

So the week turned out better than I thought!   

This is the verse that keeps coming to me this week... "ponder the path of your feet."   

Have a very lovely Easter and long weekend, I hope it is a break if you are tired and a time with family and friends too.xxxx