Thursday 31 October 2013

it's great day!!!!!!

Just going to draft a few sheep before I go to town work..............yippee............gotta love being a farmer...........
.........take care til next time.....Chookyblue.........

Tuesday 29 October 2013

*&%$()**^^%$%^$............

Why does everyone think everyone needs to visit istagram, facebook and/ or whatever else too........
.......it s&^^%$&# me.............
"check my pics on istagram"
"like me on facebook"
blah blah blah.........
I don't get it..............
I only need to waste me time on one thing so i'll stick to blogging.....not doing anything else....
And don't assume everyone wants to follow you in a million locations online.......

.........take care til next time.....Chookyblue.........

Saturday 26 October 2013

a present & 9 patches..........

Thanks so much for all your lovely comments on the last post.............it was very last minute decision to do "drought drinks" but we had a great time and lots of neighbours were able to come.........and all very happy to gather.........mind you some of my neighbours are very close and others 20-30mins away......it was a nice way to end the week..............the last few weeks have been horrible.............windy dusty days.........some very hot others cooler.............the paddocks are getting pretty bare........it's miserable to look out...............depressing driving to and from work...........and no rain is  forecast.........looking at selling some more cattle...........some sheep going tomorrow............
Mick and Janice also join us for drought drinks as you can see here....I do hope they went to bed earlier then me...........
i'm very flat today.......tired...........i've dawdled around and achieved not much...........
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In what had been a horrible week a nice parcel arrived in the mail.................
Thanks so much Susan @ Susans Sewing Space....................check out this post I think there may have been some conspiring going on..............just saying!!!!!!
In My Garden by Natalie Bird
And Susan even got Natalie Bird to sign it for me......so very thoughful.......
for those who were at the table I am thinking about it............
And believe it or not I have my nine patches finished...........really dragging the chain but just when I thought I was finding some time to sew again I got sick and started fulltime work..............but they are done and will be in Monday's mail..........i'll do another post about them soon so you can see them better........
I still have heaps to show and tell and I still haven't forgotten you Rachel but the net has been slow and nothing working right.........heading to a neighbours for dinner ...........sheep work tomorrow sorting them up for the sale yards........need to check their teeth and make sure they have an ear tag.......so once they are on the truck i'll have a shower and get some posts together............
have a great weekend...............
Catch you later
Chookyblue

Friday 25 October 2013

drought drinks.....

Crap week at work....
Was going to host a girl's night in for cancer but never got organise
Internet has been slow because we over used it
It won't rain everyone is feeling so down about that sooooooo....
last night I decided to have drought drinks with the neighbours hope you join us......
Ok got to go and pop a bubbles.... Cheers......


.........take care til next time.....Chookyblue.........

Sunday 20 October 2013

Chicken bites with Satay sauce.................

Yesterday Mr Chooky brought home some chicken thighs............he didn't look too hard but is was already cut up into lots of little bits............would be better if he cuts the bits next time but anyway so long as I didn't have to cut it up............

He also brought Kan Tong Honey Chicken Asian Meal base......(not to bad.......we served it with rice........
Anyway we had too much chicken for that so having read Simply Joolz blog (she has heaps of good food) early in the day she posted a satay recipe so I decided to do that for lunch.............
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toss the small bits of chicken (about 300g) in a beaten egg.
then toss in corn flour....
pop some oil into the wok and throw the chicken bits into the wok.............ok well place gentle incase the chicken drops into the oil and splashes oil all over the floor (if you do this get your husband to wipe it up)
toss the chicken around in the oil until they are nice and browned............drain onto paper towel.........
While your cooking the batches head to Joolz blog and check the recipe for the Satay sauce...scroll to the bottom of her post........
I couldn't find the chicken stock so use beef and forgot the lemon but what was runny and looking yuck turned into a lovely thick sauce very quickly............just as Joolz said.........
I loved this and will be doing it again soon......pretty quick and simple..
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I have lots to tell you........
## final summary of a big project.........
## desilting..........
## haven't forgotten you Rachel either.............should have that together soon too..........
## Getting excited because it's 3 weeks until the bush bloggers bash in Bathurst..............heaps of girls coming....man there's going to be some chatting......and shopping.....and eating and heaps more chatting.......OMG so excited.......new bloggers to meet too can't wait........
Are you coming??? If not you should be!!!!!
Catch you later
Chookyblue
PS if you need a LOL
got an email from a friend........
I have not been feeling the best...anyway went to Doctors
Blog tests done...and because of my symptoms he wanted.......


it was a very serious email but I think she meant blood!!!!
...she's definitely a blogger don't you think......

Thursday 17 October 2013

fires.............

OMG what a day has unfolded in the Blue Mountains, Southern Highlands and Hunter areas.....there may be more I am unaware of...........
No fires near me thankfully but thinking of all the people in the areas affected..............homes/businesses are lost numbers unknown at this stage............everything is still to out of control to assess what has gone......not sure if any lives have been lost but the emergencies in numerous areas are far from over with new areas being affected......they winds have been horrendous again today over most of the state........this has fanned all the fires that have started...............
.........take care til next time.....Chookyblue.........

Sunday 13 October 2013

Paradise...........

36degC
Stormy
No rain only a couple of spots to make dust stick better
Oh yeah dust with the rain spots
Dust storm
Some lighting but no fires that I know of
No power
A shower in gravity water flow cause we have no power
Burrs blowing up on me on the bike cause it was so windy when I went to check a dam
A hot house because there's no power and to much dust to open up even though it has finally stated to cool down outside
Yep I do live in paradise!!!!!
Catch you later
Chookyblue
PS the power just returned so I can add some pics now...............
Inbetween the bad dusty times it was still dusty in the sky..........

then it got lots worse........ 
I can still hear the wind is bad outside...........

23.6.........

I thought it was warm last night...............and still this morning..............yep it's 23.6 degC overnight that's a warm night......the temps are up and down all over the place at the moment.......supposed to be 35 today.........
.........take care til next time.....Chookyblue.........

Tuesday 8 October 2013

hemming.............

Yep pretty boring pic...........hems on school pants x2............BORING.............and it was the only sewing I have done in the last week or more...........thank goodness Googy Girl showed me how to hem on the machine..............once I remember the way to put the fabric all is good............
My voice started to come good on Saturday and then went again.................it was a struggle talking to customers at work today...........thank goodness it wasn't too busy...........and no one was hard of hearing.............i've sounded very odd for 2 weeks now..........with it almost disappearing mid sentence.....deep and raspy or nothing...........totally over it......
the family are happy as I can't yell at them........lol.....
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School holidays are over and it's back to reality.........
Boy Wonder has done all the work with Mr Chooky in the holidays so I have had a break from that............still no rain and nothing forecast for a few weeks......optimism is disappearing.........
.........take care til next time.....Chookyblue.........

Saturday 5 October 2013

hey......

Feeling much better......not 100% but functioning again...
...i'll just stick the pic up for the Bathurst bush bloggers meet as a reminder.........or incase you missed it the first time.

There's blog girls coming from all directions to join in 
.......most will be travelling more then 2 hours (up to 6hrs) to get there for lunch.....
......but hey that's what you do when you're out in the bush........
.......some are coming over the mountains from Sydney too..............
car pool with another blogger...........
20-30 bloggers should be there.........I can't wait..........

Anyway if you haven't let me know already if you are coming or interested leave a comment so I can add you to the email list as things develop.........
SAT 9th November aim to be there from 10am
meeting spot, lunch location etc to be determined.......
BUT we will be going to The Home Patch - essential stop.....

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Anyway its a long weekend in NSW, SA, QLD and ACT so i'll just relax and enjoy that and the end of the school holidays and I'll get back to any email, blog stuff next week............

.........take care til next time.....Chookyblue.........