Today one of the people I approached about fertile eggs came through, and she dropped a dozen eggs off in my mailbox on her way to work this morning (after ringing). So, I duly marked them and put them under the clucky chook. Seven, that is. Some had crinkly shells and looked like they might be double yolkers, so I didn't want any of them. One of ( Read more... )

It still wasn't very hot today. I had to wear warm clothes inside the house and outside. But I did enjoy myself in the garden and #2 chook 'helped ( Read more... )

It only got up to about 24C here today but I escaped the coolness to experience some 'real summer' down at the community market. There, they were complaining about a cold day yesterday and how cold it was down there early this morning! I got some lovely veges from the organic farmer (there's nothing like his veges) and also bought a new summer ( Read more... )

It was a cool and blustery day yesterday. Cloudy most of the day and the sun only peeped out quickly a couple of times until near sunset, when it bathed us in its orange glow for a while before it set. As well as that, it was quite windy from the south west - gusts up to 40 km/hr! It threatened to rain a couple of times, but didn't. Today it ( Read more... )

We had a cool change last night and it started raining a tiny bit during the night. It dawned cloudy and it has been a cloudy and at time slightly rainy day. I wasn't sure whether to wear spring or summer clothes out, but decided on the latter, and I'm glad I did although some people were wearing warm clothes. The supermarket was crazy...as it was ( Read more... )

Uh oh! #1 chook has gone clucky! Just when I lent my broody cage, too. As it is, if I were to put her on eggs soon, I would not be able to go away in the summer holidays. So...hmmm....not sure what to do, there ( Read more... )

Just got a call from the nurse, and she said some atypical cells were found in my pap smear. She said years ago they would have started cutting bits out, but now they just re-test in one year. It's my theory that they just let us die these days. HOWEVER, she has booked herself in to see me again when I see my Dr in a couple of weeks. Maybe I should ( Read more... )

It was a nice, warm summers day, today. It probably got up to 29C on the pergola. It's 27.3C in my office right now 7.15 pm Eastern Standard Time - we don't have daylight saving - thank goodness! The bottle cicadas sang for a bit tonight and now the crickets have taken over. I can hear a gecko on the pergola. There is a bit of a rumble of thunder ( Read more... )

Today I went up to the recycling station with old Flame and we got a screen door for the back door. Of the two bowls I wanted, only one was left. I thought up a use for them, you see :) The fan forced oven was gone. Mine isn't broken, but old. I wanted this one for a back up. It wasn't as good, but would have done for most things, I think. Anyway, ( Read more... )

Today it was cloudy and in the late afternoon a gentle mist started coming down. The chooks were sooks and wanted to shelter in the laundry :P Tom also came in. It was nice and cool this evening, so I changed my cooking plans to chicken soup and Tom had some raw chicken for tea. It is 26.6C in my office right now ( Read more... )