garden update.

We had an awesome thunder storm the other night, I had just gotten home from work when it started and I was a tad bummed as I work on the 8th floor at the hospital there would of been some awesome sights from up there!

The garden loved the big down pour... Im not so stoked tho... now I have to mow the lawns!!

Heres a few pics of the garden now, still not harvesting much from it, the chooks attacked the sliverbeet, the spinach, brocs and lettuces all bolted so I biffed them over to the chooks. At least now three out of four are laying so I guess its not all a waste.

The chooks went on a rampage when I was raising seedlings so I ended up planting unknown seedlings randomly in the garden a couple of them were sunflowers, this one has a massive head and is short.

This one has multiple heads sprouting off the stem! and doesnt seem to have a middle just lots of petals.

Everythings pretty crammed in there... at least theres no room for weeds (that I can see any way!) The cornflower has gone crazy and I cant for the life of me recall what its good for! Will have to google....

My spaghetti melons have gone on a rampage.... Its a point I dont know if I should cull it or leave it! I havent even tried it before so no idea if its worth eating or not.

My poor corn is fighting for a spot, and tomatoes... welll they might be in there somewhere... There was celery once upon a time...

It had even hooked itself on the neighbours garden trellis and had grown to their house *blush* so I yanked that off. Its growing towards the fence keeping the chooks in and to the other garden...

But it is fruiting 'ok' Ive harvested one (but not cooked it, will do that tonight, will need google for that too...) and theres three massive ones growing that I can see, chances are theres another one or two hiding.

I wish they were watermelons!!! Next year....

Strawberries are on their third round...

The plums are ready! I cant decide if I can be bothered making them in to jam or not tho??? Why is jamming season the hottest season when you dont want to be standing over a hot stove!

New edition updates

Its been such nice hot sunny weather in Hamilton this week, its wonderful. Jakes been cooling off in the afternoons after care by jumping on the tramp in the sprinkler, keeps him entertained for ages. He cant use the tramp without the sprinkler at the moment, it gets way too hot and burns ya feet!

We have EGGS!!! Only one girl tho, Ive been giving the other three a lecture every morning about earning their keep, Im wondering if they are nesting somewhere instead of the nesting box? Jakes loving collecting the egg every day he calls it "special egg from chooks bum" Shes laying bigger each day, at the moment they are pretty small, the first one was tiny! (and fair enough too... Im sure if my first child was small and not 9lb 7oz I would of managed it better too! lol)

And Jake got some new babies today, hes such an animal lover and is so caring with the hens and cat I decided to let him get a couple of zebra finches. He spotted them at the pet store a few weeks ago and loved them! Thankfully he has cheap taste, they were $9 each, the other birds for sale were $30 upwards. I think he likes how flighty and action packed they are compared to the bigger less moving birds. He chose the only white one, was set on having it (poor pet store girl had a mission catching it!) and said he wanted a random grey one (bet the pet store girl was glad about that hehe). They are wonderful birds, sing lovely tuned songs, it is very cute and relaxing to listen to them. :)

The white one got out of the shoe box when I went to transfer them! Dammit, I knew that would happen, thankfully Id closed off the hallway and kitchen. I had to wait for her to land on the ground and chuck a towel over, got there in the end!

The new year

Its been a week or two since my last blog, Not much new to update, have been busy at work so that takes most of the day away and with my low iron Im to tired to anything crafty in the evenings. But oh well.
New years eve I was getting ready to go out, putting my face on and what not and Jake asked to put some on so I gave him my eye shadow and lippy...
Well turns out eye shadow wasnt standing out enough for him so he used my lippy on his lips, cheeks, nose, forehead, eyelids, eye brows.... I dont even put make up in half those places! He then annouced he was pretty and ready to go out to grans for the night and proudly showed everyone there his master work, I wasnt too worried at the time as it ment he wasnt around my feet while I was trying to get ready but then well, the Lippy set like cement to his face. Was a time consuming mission to get off, which made me late leaving and he still has a small dot on his eyebrow...

And Ill finish this blog with my chooks... as you can see my fence contains them well...