RIP Curly Pops your one of a kind..............

You came into my life and the blog way back here in October 2008

you stole me heart way back then.........

who knew you were going to be so special.........

you should have died then..............

you even starred on one of my cards...........

Sept 09

always coming to say hello at the garden fence........

March 11

even putting up with Boy Wonder's antics...........

April 2011

Your first baby "Cocopops" nearly killed you.......an expensive bill at the vets when others would have died..........

August 2012

Your second calf Cops...........

Feb 2013

You survived the drought and all the drought feeding............

Dec 2013

Jan 2014

your 3rd baby Lollipops..........

And you had your 4th baby earlier this year...........I took a photo of you when I introduced you to Jan@ The Little Red Hen but I can't find it............

Sadly your time came..........you were always going to die on the farm because we would never sell you..........I just never knew it was going to be so soon and from too much nice green feed...........

your one of a kind.........not to many get hand reared and I could always walk up to you in the paddock and give you a hug..........

in my whole life there is no other cow like you........

Curly Pops blog life is in this link..........

Catch you later.......

Chookyblue.........

blog buddies "g" list.....

Click on this link Blog Buddies and you can see the previous A-F posts I have done............ basically lists a bloggers I like to visit..............slowly I will get to Z......... I haven't posted since June 2014........ Gail Pan Designs - one of our wonderful Australian Designers..........one day I hope to get to one of her workshops........ Gone Stitchin' - Chez aka Dory is a great Aussie blogger......she runs lot of swaps online too.........been so lucky to meet her and share many laughs............ Granny Loz - Another Aussie I have had the pleasure of meeting is the delightful Loz............a little bit of life in her patch of Australia and of course quilty/sewing goodness........ Grits Life - a German blogger who has made an award winning quilt.........she does lots of beautiful things on her blog.........lots of blue quilts too........always love visiting to see what she is up to........... Gum Valley Patchwork - Linda used to have a dairy farm along the great ocean road in Australia..........she is now retired from the dairy farm and runs a patchwork shop and makes award winning quilts too......... .........take care til next time.....Chookyblue.........

Baaaaaa...........

No we haven't started lambing yet but one of the neighbours has and this lamb didn't find her Mumma when they left the yards............

She moved in last night...........Slept in a box beside Boy Wonders bed last night...........been in the box in the kitchen all day........so far she is very quiet thank goodness...........no name yet......

This pic is for Teresa @ All things Vintage............raining again today.....yippee........I left work early as our dirt road is a mess at the moment..........someone took a truck down it weeks ago when it was not dry enough.......straight down the middle they went........we usually drive down the side to look after the road as we are lucky if it is graded once a year..........Teresa likes wet bush roads......Teresa you can have mine....you would have loved it this arvo.....a few kms back I had ended up out in the paddock after loosing it..........

lucky my boss gave me an early mark.........

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thanks to the random person who sent this envelope............

I asked for it I have forgotten who I asked............but thanks.......

Catch you later........

Chookyblue.........

Chicks...

The chicks have almost doubled in size when we did there measurements yesterday......  12 days old..... Still cute....
I'm feeling normal today finally.... Thank goodness the shortest day of the year is almost over........
Chookyblue......

explained absence............

struggling to get into the posting mode.........struggling to do much other then bookwork..........was wondering why then realised i've travelled about 2000kms in the last week........no wonder.........a fair whack of the kms were racked up with an over night trip to Sydney..........I used to do it when I was younger but it kills me now............

 random pics from Chookblue blog archives.......lol.....

above is my phone screen saver.........1/2 inch hexies............

Below are dough sticks.......might have to make a wood fire outside tomorrow and cook some......filled with butter and golden syrup............yummo...........

Anyway I have lots to share from before the Chookshed party then the long weekend so will try and get my butt into gear and share it all..........how did we get to the 20th of the month since it feels like it was the 1st yesterday...........blink it is gone...........haven't even been getting anything done really of a night as tooooo tired eyes don't work then.............I  have lots of blog posts saved in Feeldy to open and comment on................

oh well lifes good so no complaining..........

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

More rain....

Chookyblue

Me again and the SSCS.....

HI everyone......

seems my thoughts about the SSCS Swap in the last post are confirmed by those who commented.........

no blogging = no SSCS............

it's unfair to expect someone to make a gift for you in a bloggers swap and you not be blogging...........

Anyway I have heaps more to tell but been busy with other life stuff so will be back later in the week..........

I'll leave you with the photo of the latest agriculture project.........

measuring, weight etc

we used to buy tissue boxes with cute chickens on the outside.........

Catch you later........

Chookyblue

Thinking.............

About the SSCS.................

I will be checking if you are blogging this year and if not you won't be in............I know lots of you rarely blog and lots of you are great bloggers............this year it will be the deciding factor if your in or out...............the dark side does not count in the SSCS Swap...........once a month is what you need to do as a minimum so it's not much 2 posts would be great........but you can't expect to join a swap and have someone make a present for you and you have not blogged for months...................

Oh and if your not sure the SSCS = Secret Santa Christmas Swap.........

things going as they are now it will be running...........

no sign ups accepted yet though..........

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

and the winner is............

So many fun posts from the weekend but the Chookshed party took on a whole new meaning for Anthea @ Hibiscus Stitches when the Chooky family came to visit............you must check out her 3 posts...............post 1.......post 2........post 3.............

She had some visitors..........

Mr Harold Blue, his wife Hen-rietta and their chickens James and Penelope............

also Grandma Violet who likes a glass of red........

I'll be in touch to get your email and send something off...............

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Long weekend here so that means the family is together and visitors and lots of activities...........

early to bed tonight............

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

tHaNkYoU eVeRyOnE...........

Wow...........what a party..............so so very pleased so many of you joined in the fun...............I think I have visited all your posts............so many happy party goers all around blogland..........

lots of sewing, mojo's reinvigorated, drinks and nibbles, birthday cake...........so much fun.........

It ended up being a wet weekend here but not too cool........

23mls of rain.........

Mr Chooky had to drive the girls out so they could go home...........

I am so exhausted..............Googy Girl and Kate are night owls and kept this little Chook up well past dark........you know the saying "go to bed with the chooks" well I go much earlier then those girls.......

early to bed tonight..........

the sun is shining today but it is absolutely freezing.......

Winter is here with a BANG............the whole week is going to be freezing.......

frosty night and very chilly days...........

I will do a draw from the party goers in the next few days and let you know who that is soon......

If you haven't checked out what everyone did at the party the links are in the previous post to this one so check everyone out........

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