Thursday Ramblings May 5th, 2016

Meet Mayuka. Our lovely fat cat. She brings daily gifts that the pups either play with or claim as their own. Despite being chased, terrorized and all around treated as an outsider, especially by Tesla, she is still as sweet as ever.

                                  

Ms. AM started 'sewing' again and was proud of her chain. We turned it into a bracelet and as I took the picture she spun around. Cool photo! I started on my jacket but didn't get very far. I decided to do the pattern in powder blue and white in between. I like it so far.

Then we went outside to look for red birds. she looked so cute in her Mommy and me outfit. Too bad I didn't get a shot of them together. It was Mommy and me tea today at her school.

 We had a visit from Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum it seems. Chickens are so funny, you just never know what to expect from them.

Here we are in the jungles watching the wild birds searching for rogue bugs to devour. They look like little rapters running through the grass.

Lastly hubby came out to sit with me and Flower came and visited with him. She's such a good egg.

Until later, bye

Wednesday was a Sick Day

Poor hubby didn't go to work today. He's not feeling well so Mr. M and I stayed in the living room while he rested in the bedroom.

Mr. M bounced on the bouncy thing, played games on both the tablet and their computer and in the playroom. Around lunchtime hubby came out to join us still not feeling well.

watching Treasure Buddies on Netflix

playing on the bouncy thingy while we watch wood turning videos

When its a day like today we watch our Roku, we got away from cable and dish, and things like JW Broadcast with its encouraging bible based articles, Downton Abbey and Young Indiana Jones on Amazon Prime, cooking videos, bowl and other things turning, and sawmill videos on YouTube.

Today is wood turning videos. I especially like the ones where they add resin to Banksia Pods to create beautiful things like vases but my favorite is pens. So very pretty.

Decided to make that lacy top in the last post, and based upon the amount of yarn I have should have enough to make it, lol. Decided to do a white version, summertime and white seem to go perfect together. Will post pictures of it as it progresses.

                              

Ms. AN and her ballerina friends trying on their costumes for the recital. So pretty! 

Well the Littles have gone home, time to see what the chickens and ducks have been up too and take care of a sick hubby, otherwise we would be at our meeting enjoying the company of our spiritual family.

Until later, bye.

Another Day for Adventures

Today has started out like most Wednesdays. 

Mr. M comes to visit and the chickens and ducks and guineas (we have a neighborhood flock that goes from yard to yard keeping pest at bay) get their morning breakfast and hellos and a little petting, if they will let me.

Baby chicks are still sleeping in their food bowl and puppies are still chasing Mayuka. 

Yesterday we went to a program for Ms. AN. She did a PE program with 50s music and jump ropes and hula hoops. Ms. AN was a hula hooper and I am  amazed at how she walked around hooping and even got down on her knees and then back up again. Before the program though was house cleaning day and pick up Ms. AM from school and grocery shopping. A busy day indeed!

                  

                             


The chicks and ducks got to play outside in the morning but when hubby came home he saw a stray cat. So everyone had to go back in. Poor babies. Then when we got home from the program, the light wasn't on and all the poor babies were at the door waiting for us to turn it on. The game camera didn't take any pictures just 800 file fragments. 

How disappointing. I took these earlier while I was outside.

A gathering of hens means only two things. Visiting or a worm

The pre-teens are almost ready to go in the big coop.

Since everything but dusting has been done, I thought that I would check out a pattern to make, still haven't decided yet, but Ravelry.com has some great patterns and not all of them cost.  Go check it out, its a great resource for patterns in crochet and knitting. So trying to find the perfect pattern to work on. Haven't messed with my needles since I broke my ankle in October except to help Ms. AM. Summer is coming up and I'd like to have something cool and lacy to wear. I'm kind of leaning towards this pattern at Garner Studio

A little later we'll be picking up Ms. AN from school then going to ballet class. Ms. AM isn't going to ballet today she has a baseball game. Here she is last week at her game. Hitting a great ball and her team winning!

Until later, bye.

Meet Ms. AM

She is my Grand Little #2. I also have a Ms. AN and a Mr. M and Mr. C. (No first names please). The pup is my Juliette, hopefully she and her brother Tesla and big sister MoneyPenny will write some adventures for me to share.

This afternoon Ms. AM, my Grand Little, wanted to sew. To her its sewing to everyone else its crocheting. So she made a strand of Elsa hair.

Then we went to watch the chickens and ducks. Juliette came in too and sat for a while watching. Ms. AM decided to take a leaf and make it dirty for the ducks. They weren't really interested but Flower let Ms. AM pet her.

Juliette says, today Mommy let me in to that special place with the funny looking birds, called chickens. I had to sit in her lap and watch. She said no chasing. The one time I get down and try to sniff one it flies away. Mommy said shame on me. Until another day, chicken.

Sharing leaves with the ducks. 

What could be easier, except that the ducks weren't in a visiting mood

Ms. AM got to pet Flower our oldest chick at 3 months old. 

She is also one of our resident peepers at the game camera we keep in the coop.

Here she is with two other peepers. 

The white hens are very shy until they are alone with the camera 

 A pretty fun day, even the rearranging of the dining area was fulfilling