HAPPY NEW WEEK!
I hope everyone has a joyful, healthy week.
I decided to walk to my small town yesterday to get some food at the general store. I heard a noise and looked back to see my neighbors' chickens lined up single-file walking behind me. She lets them run loose in the afternoon, and they had decided to follow me! I had to walk them back to their coup. The big red hen pecked at my shoe and looked at me like, "Come on, woman, let's go!" I guess they thought it was an adventure and I'm the new hen leader. LOL
Take care, all.
DIANE – Chicken tour leader! Did you have one of those flags on a pole? And did your give a travel commentary? Obviously you have a great rapport with fauna, both wild & tame.
We visited Dau#1 yesterday for a proper tour of their new house and then the garden. Lots of roses. She has set up raised veggie beds, planted peach tree, pear tree and lots of herbs. All I could think of was pruning, weeding. Rather her than me! They sound very happy with their new abode and are almost completely organized. She begins teaching next week and will spend this week prep-ing her classroom and gathering her lesson plans.
Weather has been kind and will not heat up until Friday. I have nearly won the battle with weeds in my veggie & bulb patches.
Good Morning. A terrific sunrise just now, with pinkness reflected on the remaining snow on the frosty fields. Still freezing temps here, but rising to 4 degrees today so I suppose we should be grateful!
We went to our Youngests yesterday, with about 8 pieces of luggage: many Christmas presents for them all, including those from Eldest, plus two big bags of redundant girls clothes for little Rosie from Amber, who is of course much older. We were greeted with joy & had fun watching the mad mass opening and chaotic paper fest.
Good journeys there & back, although we encountered scary fog both ways. People do strange things: saw several vehicles without lights in the fading part of the day when the patchy fog was making visibility difficult.
Sorry, not had time for comments. Many thanks to Diane for starting us off again. You are so reliable. I had a laugh at the vision of your being followed by the chickens!! I wonder what they were thinking! AQ - You've done well in your ongoing battle with the weeds. They must be tough there, able to stand the heat & droughts. Glad you managed a visit to your daughter. Rusty, your outing sounded wonderful. Its so nice to keep in touch with long standing friends, and I'm glad the trains were kind to you so that all went well. Annette, I see you're still in a clearing out mood: I sent an entire dinner service to the charity shop the other day, as we haven't used it in ages and I've been getting out some large white plates for visitors instead. Now I need to get some side plates and pudding dishes, though, in case we need matching. At least with the new fashion for all white china it can be bought anywhere.
The old set had matching cups & saucers, very pretty, but never used for twenty years. Ironically, now, cups, saucers and pretty cake plates are now back in fashion but I wasn't going to offer them to our children as I doubt they would have had a need for them. Edit: with the "new fashion" for serving fancy cakes, I mean. When I think of the several pretty cake stands I gave away a couple of years ago!