Farm animals. Gosh I have lots and always share mainly on Monday Portrait So this time I am heading down a different path to what may be the face of a modern farm.
“Yes, they chose pink for me as I am the prettiest chook in the show.” “I don’t mind have a bit of a make-over as it’s just for a bit of fun for the kids plus it is a good promotion for the Rainbow Farm”
“I am stuck with green. Boy do the others have a good laugh!” “Like how come you have lettuce instead of feathers? Do you lay Brussel Sprouts?” “I’ll be glad when I get home and get a wash”
“This is madness!!!” “You have to get me out of here!!” “I keep seeing these weird looking chickens!!”
“I don’t see what his problem is.” “Do you?”
OK, you talked me into it. Here’s a bit of cute to finish
This post for #WalkingSquares is one for the weekend, Sunday in particular. My titles and dates will be skew whiff for now on in. Not good for OCD. As I said up and into the garden in the morning before we head off to a Pottery Studio for the day.
A quick once around and loving the plants wonderful nix of colours. The little Tricycle lives on
A couple of the neighbours came to say hello
The Gallardias are adding colour in patches. I should have used more flowers to get the full effect, sorry.
Too many lovely roses so here’s just one of my favourites, Double Delight
Off on the drive to the Pottery Studio. Lucky there were signs in the garden to show the way. It is a fabulous ramshackle garden with a few trimmed parts as well.
Had a walk through the shop and chatted to people while waiting for the Raku pottery kiln to be opened. Have a look at the link while we wait
Time for Mick to open the kiln
Here is a look at what was cooking at 1,000 degrees. It was a very warm day, in the low 30’s so being near a kiln wasn’t a good idea. The things I do for you!
Thick gloves and long tongs. I would be using them as well
Then it was over to a drum with sawdust in it and a bit more sawdust was added
Of course it all caught fire. A lid was put on the drum the reduce the oxygen and increase the carbon which make the firing patterns different. Sorry again. The pots didn’t come out of the drums while I was there. It was still 600C in the drum!
The walk back through the garden was one last look around. There were Superb Fairy Wrens hopping in the garden beds as well Wanderer Butterflies flitting about the ramshackle garden. The climbing rose was huge.
Other parts were neatly kept in little clearing with spots of colour. I love the mix of Zinnias.
Can you find your emotion among this lot? No responsibility taken for any mental scaring, they are your emotions. Perhaps I can facilitate some change. Try and stop for a while and appreciate the colours or patterns of the photo that builds a flight response or just stop on the photo that makes you go aahhh and soak up the emotion
A Wanderer Butterfly coming to rest on my besties hand for a while
Having help when I really needed it while working under my car
Having chickens hatch
Having a critically endangered Regent Honeyeater visit my garden
Taking a super bad photo of a very shy and almost rare (in my area) Regent Bowerbird. One quick photo and it was gone.
Having a Eastern Yellow Robin come and sit on the back of a chair while you are having a bite to eat in the garden. He came around often at my besties old place. We called him Bobbin
Finding a Nobbi Lizard at one of my favourite places, the Raspberry Lookout, after the fires of the Summer of 2019
Discovering a Hakea flurolenta on my place for the first time. I haven’t seen it since those fires but hope it may return in time.
Discovering the delights of Paris and Venice for the first time
I often go outside to do things around the house such as splitting firewood, or a bit of gardening, work on the car for instance. Sometimes I get asked “Where have you been? You’ve been gone for ages and lunch/dinner is ready.” Or “What has taken you so long? You were just going to split a wheelbarrow of firewood.”
Well, you see I have some helpers. Oh, so you have helpers I hear you say. So it shouldn’t take you very long to do stuff if there are helpers!!!
My helpers are always there whenever I go outside, ready to be with me to see what they can do to make my jobs a lot easier. Yes, everywhere I go they always tag along to make sure I do a good job.
This is how they help in the garden.
Just so you know I had put a small plant in the garden right there.
“Did you say something?” she said.
At the chopping block. I am always telling them to watch out as a block of wood flies off the block.
“Hey. Got any white ants or bugs up here?” If I stop to get another block to split, there is always a chook up there!
Now you would think that working on the car, compressor going, the sound of air tools and perhaps a bit of language from me, would be not the place to be wouldn’t you?
“I think I’ll settle in here for a while.”
I love my chooks and don’t really mind with their “help”……most of the time.
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