Feather your Nest Friday, 16th October, 2026.

Hello everyone.  We made it to another Friday!  My Grandchildren are all back to school.   Everyone is healing.  I am very grateful. Thank you to everyone who prayed and for your kind messages. 

My downfall is I did not reply to comments last week.  I am really sorry because I appreciate your comments and kindness so much and usually I reply to all or almost all.    But each break I got this last week I slept.   It is as though I could not sleep enough and I slept like a log.  Then at night, no problem, I slept like a log again.   And this was very healing and calmed my nervous system down a lot.   I began to feel much better.  I do apologise though.

We have had some true Spring days and I have flowers!   Getting a garden really going form nothing and in sand took a few years.  But now I have lots of flowers in my garden beds.

 

I wanted to continue to sew even if just a little bit.  So... I started some pot holders for my own kitchen as mine are pretty worn out.  I dug through all my trims and ribbons and found a braid that matched these.

I also did some more for the gift cupboard.  This trim is very old.   But it matches!    I am thinking.very much on how we can have supplies and resources...  we just need to do the nextt step to turn them into assets. 

For Mum I made afternoon tea and sent her home with scones.

I made back to school treat boxes for my older Grandchildren and Honey Gingerbread so they had one tin each.   Plus Butter chicken, raita,  lasagne and spaghetti.    

In the garden I have been picking bunches of broccolini.   I have never grown this before.  It was an accident as I had expired seeds which were sold for sprouting.  I threw them in a couple of garden beds and did not expect them to come up.

Not caring and not expecting anything is key to making every single one come up.   I then began to thin them out by potting them up and sharing them.   

Chloe got a lot of them.    So we are both harvesting broccolini.     Tom considered them his plants as he did most of the planting.

Now they are harvesting he eats them up and insists everyone eat every last trace since there was a lot of work to get to this point.   So next thing Chloe had him in charge of cooking them.  Great success and my best success on seeds ever! 

I have a huge amount of broccolini leaves and many are going to the chooks but I plan to turn some into green power too.

It was a special day so the kids made pavlova (with Mum) too.

The boys came over yesterday.    We harvested a whole heap of celery....

And a whole lot of Silverbeet.

Some with holes and snails went to the chooks so they got a big feed too.

The boys collected the eggs and fed the chickens.

We collected some big sticks to use as new perches.

A couple of weeks ago Tom asked if he could have an old roller.   I don't think it had rolled or moved in twenty years.   So I said sure and my helpers used the tractor and trailer and Tom took it home.  😊

This week he got to roll something!! 

It was a  pad for a little garden shed.   Never has a boy rolled something so happily (or for so long) as this.  I asked him how long did he roll that thing for?   He said "about eight hours."

Lots of sunshine was enjoyed.   And the cows are in the driveway eating down the jungle and having a wonderful time.

On Chloe's track I saw a pair of Echidnas but I was not quick enough to get both in the photo... one went back into the grass.   But they poke along and are so sweet.

Since some ready made meals came out of the freezer I have freezer space.  Today I went to the butcher.  I stood and looked in the window.   I had ideas.  But it was $187 for a beef roast.  Other ideas did not seem to work out much better.  So I walked away.   

There are stressed people everywhere.  People in need.  The lady at the supermarket check out (who is always cheerful) was crying.  I asked her was there anything I could do to help and she shook her head unable to speak.   My friend noticed the same thing. 

But also...we went to Mass and were showered in love and took eggs and books.... Mum passes the books she reads on to a lady and I take her two or three a week.   She lights up every time! 

My seedlings are doing well.  This sunshine will do them good.  

So overall it was a much better week.  Once again I was told to read Psalm 91 every night before bed.  I am bad with numbers but I knew it!  And that is very good advice and I intend to make this my new habit.xxx