101 POSTS TODAY!

Well today this my 101 th post since i started this blog, never thought i would get very far but am still blogging along about things i do.

Well i got about 7 good eggs so far from the chooks. Don't know if they will produce tommorrow as they had a 2 hour jouney in the car today. They get a bit stressed . they seem ok and will be going in the big chook run tonight when it is dark. That is so they don't get the 'BASH' from the others. There is always a pecking order! I went and looked in the hen house and have got four 'broody ones all piled upon top of each other. lol! I have to wait till i get 1 dozen eggs before they go under a chook to hatch, so probably a few more days to go yet.


We went to this littlle farmers market this morning and a guy there had some young pullets i was tempted to get a couple they were so quiet but friendly.... maybe in a few months next time i go to mums i will get some depending on what happens with the eggs, we will wait and see!

Here is a pic of a couple of mums huge beetroot she grew. these are the smaller ones 1lb 8 and 1lb 9, i have to cook some tommorrow and make some cream puffs, yummy!! . There is an egg in the pic to give you an idea of there size.

EGGS !

So far I have saved up 5 new eggs from my new girls (chooks). Should get a few more today. I know i have a couple of broody hens at dhome so these eggs , will be going under one of those. Hopefully they will hatch! These girls are quite quiet, so quiet one jumped in the bucket of grain!! lol! i will keep you posted.
We went to the vegie patch and picked some huge beetroot that mum had grown. The heaviest weighed in at .... 1lb 140z it is huge 2nd was 1lb 9 oz and 1lb 4oz. They must of tapped into a good food supply of compost and sucked it dry coz there was real weeny one that was just normal!! I will put a pic up when i get home as this laptop is so temperamental and touchy it would take forever!!

NEW CHOOKS.

My mum bought me some new chooks for xmas. We found an ad in the local paper and they were only 3 k up the main rd here in paeroa, where she lives. They are brown shavers. They have been in with a rooster too! So the eggs are probably fertile for maybe a week?? So we are going to save the 1st eggs and then i will take them home and put them under one of my other old girls and hopefully they will hatch.... if they do i hope there is hardly any roosters!! The man i got them off tryed to sell me a huge rooster!! He was called a 'barney velder'. and then he asked if i wanted an 'araucana' too. They lay the lite blue eggs, but no i don't want one. We will just see what happens. We will probably go back to Auckland towards the weekend i suppose. no pics, coz mr nobody dropped my camera and i don't have a nother one as yet. I really miss it! Nevermind.

MY SSCS PARCEL

This is what i unwrapped from http://vickiescrafting.blogspot.com/ It is a lovely xmas table mat for the table, there is a santa face in the centre and she has also made it so you can turn it over and use both sides which is really great! i love it vickie, thankyou. Thanks chookyblue for hosting this, lots of fun to see all other bloggers pressys too. I had to use my phone as my camera is kaput! mr nobdy dropped it i think but he doesn't live here anymore, funny that. . . . . .

"THE CAKE IS ICED BUT. . . . . . . . .

Opps ! 'Whose this ???

Why it's me , Rudolf of coarse ! ' MERRY CHRISTMAS'

THE GIFTS I MADE FOR SSCS.



This is the ornament i made for vanessa she loved it! mine hangs around all year. the other part i cannot show you. I also sent her two dogs a bandana each from the child cancer foundation , for them to wear, the same as our dog, poppy, does. She gets a couple each year, she has quite a selection of colour to wear now.lol!

sorry about the terrible colour but i cant't figure out why it goes pink when the flash is on and it goes abit too dark with it off! but you can get the general idea of what it looks like.

MY SSCS GIFTS.

Here is a couple of pics of my sscs gifts i received from vickie. one cute cross stitched tree ornament , reversible, and one to open xmas day . All wrapped up in a pretty peice of christmas fabric that can be used for a future project sometime. The other yo-yo ornament is one i had a go at from one of the blogs, it came out well and was quite easy to make so i might do some later on in other colours for next year. My swap was sent to vanessa who received it last week also. Today i am working on getting my finale bunnyhill block put together. I'm about halfway i think. No rush , just doing bits when i feel like it.

BLOCK 11 BUNNYHILL.

well i completed my 11th block of bunnyhill. It turned out quite well. Just one more to go.... wonder what it will be?? I have also been doing some more on my willowberry stichery bom too. up to doing the borders now . I just got to pick some colours then get into it.