Jetstreams and prepping

Lots happening here as usual...........

Working on Lucy but run out of creams and blue squares I need to make the fillers with and put around the Lucy blocks.........

So its cutting, gluing and prepping bags to sew.........

Talk about prepping I'm trying to up my walking in preparation for March Charge a Cancer Council fundraiser...........

I headed out the gate and looked up........OMG the sun was not up yet but a jet and its short jetstream were catching the rays.............

Here it is further away.........it was a stunning sight and thinking of my walking and working out distance goals to go to I decided to walk the loop to the sheep yards...........I know if I go down and back the same way it is 3kms but I was not sure if I did the loop..........it's just under 4kms so glad I did it now..........

Dust catching the sunlight about the 3km mark.......the sheep had just crossed my path heading to water at the dam..........

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NOW BACK to the MARCH CHARGE for cancer...........

I am walking.......I have registered to raise funds.........

I am walking for many people in my life...........

ones I have lost - my sister, my nan, my uncle, my aunty, mums cousin, dads cousin, my great aunt, one of my best friends, Mr Chookys grandad, friends mum

Survivors - BIL, cousins grandson, friends husband

Fighting now - FIL for the second time, 

many others to numerous to mention but these are closer ones

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In blogland I know of friends who have battles to close to the heart

my friend who lost her husband to lymphoma

my friend who's son is currently battling melanoma

  my friends mum battling lung cancer

my friend who beat breast cancer

another friend almost clear on cancer

another friends who's husband battled cancer 

So WALK WITH ME

but most importantly 

sponsor me......

Crazily I said I would walk 93kms avg 3kms/day.

I usually walk 1-1.5kms sometimes 2km if I have time.......I walked 4km this morning and my knees are hurting (they are crap) but you know what my sore knees is nothing compared to cancer so I'll just live on panadol or nurofen if need be for the month........

Any amount of support you can give will all add up..........

if you have someone special tell me and I will walk for them too..........

I don't normally ask for anything like this but cancer affects way to many people and it is not just the person who gets it it is their whole world affected......family, friends etc....

Out here in the bush there are pretty much no services so you have to travel great distances just for treatment and Drs............

 

See what the Cancer Council does here

####  SPONSOR ME ####

please.........

leave me your email and I can email you a link if you can't find me online

Is anyone else doing this challenge?????

Catch you later.......

Chookyblue.....

Keeping the love of blogging alive

So much fun.....

What a wonderful day with the girl............

3 fruits and eggs???? does it cut it....delicious...........lemon meringe pie.........

Helen and Maria........

Me and Teresa..........

Nola, De and Michelle.........

Susan and Teresa...........

Michelle and me...........

delicious lunch...........

Anita, Juanita and Cheryl

the whole group............

Lynda, Marilyn and Maureen...........

Shopping lunch chatting..... Blog meets are always so much fun......

Thanks so much for meeting up girls......

Catch you later.......

Chookyblue......

Keeping the love of blogging alive

Road trip EPPing......

Got Lucy all over the back seat with me.....

Catch you later......

Chookyblue......

the journey.............

Life is a journey and you never know where it is going to take you..........

10 years ago on the 19th I started a journey..........

when I started the journey I didn't know where it was going to take me.........

who I was going to meet along the way........

the things I was going to do..........

the opportunities I was going to have along the way........

how long the journey was going to be.........

But the journey has gone on for 10 years.............

1800 posts (2 posts ago).............

and countless friendships around the globe......

posts made of sewing...........

blogmeets.....

SAL's......

quilt drives..... 

retreats.....

farming....

nature....

Chookshed birthday parties........

 but generally my crazy life.......

so.......

It's up to you...........

what are your memories of this crazy part of blogland where Chookyblue calls home.........

Catch you later.......

Chookyblue.........

Keeping the love of blogging alive

Dust storm now.........

I went out to check the chooks and the sky to the west looked a bit funny............

that's because a dust storm was coming............

its been pretty ordinary for an hour or more now............and the wind has swung to the south but it is still strong and very dusty.............the temps are dropping though.........36 deg now............

Just before the dust hit  I took this pic..........hanging out in the sprinkler...........only about 10 varieties of birds in this photo........amazing......normally this would  never happen.......

Catch you later......

Chookyblue.......

Keeping the love of blogging alive

Hell.....

How could a day start so nice.................

sunrise was spectacular to the east............

and to the west the full or almost full moon was setting............

EDIT this shows the temp in the Chookshed this morning it was 48........

Its been over 41.9 since 9.30 this morning currently 46.4  ............ with the most terrible wind.............the poor birds in the garden are struggling once again.....yesterday was 45.4 but not windy like today just breezy.........

I have hundreds and hundreds of birds seeking refuge in the garden............

the garden is fried............lawn not too bad but everything else looking burnt.........

This is just some...........i have seen about 50 at once of magpies, 100 grass parrots...........so many birds all hanging out together and only the magpies don't play fair..............

Some of the other birds around Gulahs, Cockatoos, Crested Pigeons, Eastern Rosella, Mallee Ringnecks. Tawny Frog Mouth, Kookaburras, Sacred kingfished, Black faced Cockoo-shrike, Willie Wagtail, Yellow Rumped Thornbill, Noisy Minor, White Winged Choughs, Apostle Birds, Magpie Lark aka Peewee, Magpies, White faced Babbler, Grey Butcher Bird, Crows

Also a couple more I can't identify........

Don't tell me to stay cool as it is difficult in these temps............I keep going out to check my chooks and I have one little spray on for the birds in the garden and one in the chookyard for the chooks and more birds...............

It will cool soon hopefully but we have to make it thru catastrophic fire conditions for a few more hours before it cools down...............lets hope we have no more fires in NSW as crews are working in terrible conditions as it is and thinking of the farmers being burnt out near Leadville as we speak with the fire out of control and currently burn................

We have set a new February maximum temp record...........

Catch you later................

Chookyblue..............

Keeping the love of blogging alive

Feathered friends....

the chooks are feeling the heat ........

they pant........

and hold their wings out like birds when they get hot.......

poor things have been so hot for months now........

I went to collect the eggs and feed the cooks this afternoon and found a baby Black-Faced Cuckoo-Shrike........

there was a nest in the top of the gum tree in front of the shed........somehow it made it's way into the chook yard............and into a cage...........we got it out of the cage and managed to pick it up and take it out of the yard and put it into a low tree branch...............Mum was hanging around in higher trees and they were constantly calling back and forwards to each other...........

she fed the baby a few times............hopefully this one survives and it can sort of fly so hope it makes it thru........with the extreme heat and the nest almost in full sun all day it is a wonder it survived.........one baby was dead on the ground last week........not sure if it just fell or the heat was too much but atleast this one is still alive...........they nested on a different branch in the tree last year too..........

Clearly no sewing is happening at present with all these random farm/nature posts......but it is another part of my life I love...........

Catch you later......

Chookyblue......

Keeping the love of blogging alive.............

Love the morning colours......

First light before sunrise the best time of the day.......

Catch you later......

Chookyblue......

Keeping the love of blogging alive