Good Morning Boys!

Yesterday we took a drive up to Nairne, a pleasant 45 minute meander up into a small village in the Adelaide Hills. I wanted to visit a Waldorf shop called Head, Heart and Hands to buy some craft materials. I bought the boys some vivid, soft chalks from Germany and drew them this picture of Dorothy the Dinosaur from The Wiggles. The chalks are equally effective on a blackboard or on paper.

Last night I made these Window Stars from kite paper after seeing some on a blog by Hind's Feet. These stars are the most simple eight-sided ones but I hope to progress to some more complex ones. They looked so colourful in the afternoon sun.

I picked our first bunches of broccoli today and look forward to cooking them. I am marinating lamb shanks in red wine, garlic and onion, following a blog called Zucchini and Chocolate. We will have our lamb shanks with the broccoli tomorrow evening.




Oliver is a master of opening locks and doors. He was very happy to find that we had moved the chook tractor and let the chooks free range while we cleaned the coop and put in new straw. It was just the opportunity he needed to investigate the tractor further.


I wasn't quite expecting this role-reversal though! Isobel looked quite bemused!


Here is Stella enjoying some of the stimulating play equipment we have provided for the chooks!

When I let the chickens out today they all headed for a mulched area of the garden. They all banded together and started scratching the ground with obvious pleasure. Dirt was flying everywhere. They all then formed a sort of chook-scrum, huddled down in the earth and had a little nap.

Poor Dragon is still very much the outsider. She remains at the bottom of the pecking order and can only watch such scrums wistfully from a distance.

I have to say that Ines is a very forward chook. She is a very friendly and engaging girl and follows me everywhere. I was doing the washing up and before I knew it she had come through the window and onto the kitchen sink.
In a flash she was off to make herself a cup of tea. My long suffering husband Inger thought we should draw the line at chooks in the kitchen. He was not all impressed that I reached for my camera rather than the chook!! No more chooks inside!!