G'day people.
Sharon/WO, enjoy your warm day. It's been cool here over the last few days, I thought we were finished with winter. I hope the parent-teacher night is productive for you.
Linda, school can still be respite even when your student is at home. If she gets into a routine and works well, all you need to do is shove food at her when you eat your lunch, and enjoy the tranquility. No more calls to fix a problem at the school, no more having to change your plans because the school calls you in. For me, that is freedom!
We had a quiet day today. I dropped in on a friend I haven't seen for several weeks. We had a long chat, she gave me a black wool coat she can't fit into any more. I had it rolled up in my scooter basket as I left, but I'd only gone a short way when the wind was too much; I had to stop and put it on. I've stayed in it for the rest of the day, except when I was gardening. When I came home I put in some new plants in the garden. I have a brick wall I've been training some star jasmine up in a diamond pattern, three bushes needed replacing. It's all in bud and when it flowers it will smell wonderful. Roll on spring!
Tomorrow I have a couple of medical appointments to follow up on my breast cancer treatment. I should be home mid-afternoon, I have more planting to do. The new chooks are settling in well although two of them have not yet learned how to perch at bedtime. I just checked up on them, including one who has put herself to bed underneath the feed hopped (where they often lay eggs). No eggs, but it let me see how they are settling in. Barely a murmur of protest at my torchlight in their eyes, and our two old hens are snuggled up to the new ones as if they've been best friends for years. I'm happy!
I had to go in the chookhouse tis afternoon to dig out some compost and manure for the new plants. I dug it through the sand that passes for soil on our property. But where I had dug in the chookhouse turned the earth a little, and the new hens are catching on fast, they investigated quickly in case there were some special treats (worms etc) unearthed in the process.
These are the first farm hens I've had in decades. Up til now, our hens have been the wilder-type home-bred bantams. These new ones are placid by comparison. Not like our wild, feral lot that will hunt down the funnerlweb spiders and try to snatch a magpie out of the air. These ones see a magpie swooping, and duck. Tragic!
Enjoy your Thursday.
