Finally got more seeds planted and put into our little green house. Lettuce and snow peas and something else (I think beans) have popped through in the garden. Here’s a couple of photos of our “yard” (the rest is the pool area and chook yard).
Category: Garden
Chickens in the garden
Today Amy had her friend, Aaron, over for a play so I decided it would be a good opportunity to get into the veggie garden which has been rather neglected. I pulled out all the stuff that had gone to seed or was almost out of season. I’m left with capsicum, mini-eggplants, parsley, and the last of the lebanese cucumbers. I fetched 4 of our chooks and put them to work. They had so much fun digging through the garden and eating all the bugs they could find. I loved sitting watching them. Was probably a nice change after their backyard – which is just a big muddy quogmire.
Unfortunately my heel spur is not much better and I’m still in considerable pain. Had a nice weekend with the family. On Saturday Kevin didn’t work and we took the girls for lunch at the food court, then to see “Meet the Robinsons”. We all enjoyed it. Then at night we watched “Jump In” on Disney. This was a lot of fun and it was quite amazing to see all the double dutch jump ropes tricks. Then yesterday we had the Burkes over for lunch. It was a lovely afternoon with all the kids playing so well together.
River Cottage
Kevin and I have been watching the UK series River Cottage www.rivercottage.net . Great show. Hugh’s main purpose is trying to educate people about where food comes from – he breeds his own animals for slaughter and while I still don’t believe we need to kill animals for food, I think his message is something that everyone who eats meat should here. The show we watched last night was called River Cottage Treatment and he has 6 chicken eaters come live at his farm – he shows them how his chooks live then takes them to a battery farm (where the chooks can barely walk – some can’t), an organic farm and a free range farm. By the end of the show even the hardest case is convinced to buy free-range or organic chicken. And it took the death of one of his own chicken to convince her that the animal that died for her dinner deserved a decent and humane life.
On a personal note the whole sugar thing has gone out the window but it’s something I still want to persue. At the moment I’m really concetrating on getting the house organised and under control. OUr veggie garden is growing really well – probably due to the “bit” of rain we’ve had the last few weeks and our chooks just keep on growing. Still trying to work out how to post a picture. They are just the cutest girls.
Another website I’m enjoying exploring is http://www.happyfoody.blogspot.com/
Overdue update
Well, it’s been a while since I updated. Life moving along pretty swiftly. Had a nice weekend. On Saturday I went for a bike ride in the morning, got some fruit & veg, pottered a bit, then had my book group in the afternoon. Kevin (with the girls help) made another veggie garden. Poor thing, he was so exhausted. I would never have asked him to do it on his own. A friend was supposed to help but didn’t and Dad was out for the afternoon, and so was I. It looks great and I feel very loved that he made it for me. So of course, Sunday was spent buying seedling for the garden, then planting them in the afternoon. The girls also got fitted for their snow suits – they look so cute – and we had lunch at Chili’s. We finished off with a spa – looking out at the new veggie garden. It was a really nice weekend.
This week has been going as normal – except Amy has a cough and has been waking me up at 5am with her coughing. So I’m feeling pretty tired. Getting everything organised for the snow trip – we leave Friday morning. Then we’ve got Christy’s party the next weekend so it’s pretty busy around here. I’m off now to do some scrapbooking while Christy is at preschool.