EPP update.............

Really i could have posted this pic a month or more ago.........I just hadn't taken it.............but I haven't added to this one for ages...........I got stalled as I run out or papers...........I decided I wanted to get all the blocks together to layout my mix.........over the last week since I got the other correct papers i have been doing lots of gluing............prep does take time.........

Now to put some more blocks together...........Susan I only got 4 done but I did all that gluing..........

It takes about 15mins to sew a block together if I don't get distracted........

BUT I am easily distracted.....

Catch you later

Chookyblue

the sky...........

Kylie did this post about September Sky.....I snapped these last week.......

the wild "rape" in the foreground doesn't get as strong a yellow as the sown "Canola"

....an early morning passing spot of rain........

Just a glimpse thru the trees driving along I jammed on the brakes and backed up to the perfect spot to take this one.......

have you snapped the sky lately?????

Catch you later

Chookyblue

Bathurst blog meet...........

On to happy things today.............dreaming about the 4th Bathurst blog meet.............

Only a few months now........21/23 Nov 

it's going to be even bigger and better this year........

we're having a big sleep over......I can't wait........

I wonder if we will get any sleep........

Catch you later

Chookyblue

Indy........

If your here for quilting leave now..........
It was a day of all days when you came into the world.............barely breathing when you were born but we got you going.......the adventures of your birth are here..........

first drink.............

first steps............

life in the garden in the early days.........

your favourite hang out right at the chookshed gate where you could score some milk and a pat..............

You met the cows............

And Curly Pops (the other special girl)

You slept on the lawn and looked adorable............

Life started to get busy and Charlotte joined you..........

And a pile of other babies..........

you were still the "golden child" even when you busted my foot.......

You don't always get special babies like Indy...........she was growing up to be a sook just like Curly Pops...........

But now your just a precious memory in my life..............
Indy got sick and had been given some medicine but just kept going down hill...........
Poddies are never as strong when they don't get colostrum from the cows............magic powers in mothers milks............

I'll just keep this memory of her in the last 2 weeks playing at the chookshed........her favourite haunt and where she also died........Yes your just a calf but you were a special one.........
Goodbye Indy
Catch you later

Chookyblue

Help....do you have a bread maker..........

Can you help.............does anyone have a bread maker book floating around there house............

This is my machine..........it makes 3 different size loaves................I've had it for years..........

I can make a loaf but don't have the measurements for the pizza dough and bread rolls etc..........

Does anyone have one and a recipe book to go with it floating around in the corner of the cupboard.........

I would love a copy of the recipe book...........

Catch you later

Chookyblue

bits and pieces...........

Driving around over the last week.....the sky has been amazing...............

at the end of the road you can see the sun on a bright yellow canola crop..............

This is the wild variety called "rape"........doesn't get quite so yellow but it was stunning................

Our delicious meals the other night.............

Sitting on the deck with Janice @ Jannimary sewing on Sunday morning..............

Checking out the big house dam yesterday with the bits of rain it is finally FULL............Party........so happy about this.............house water is secure for summer..........look at the big clear blue sky yesterday.........

yippee the papers for the BIG epp project have arrived.............and a new glue pen and Sandy added a bit of blue to put into my quilt...............

Catch you later

Chookyblue

reporting in..........

Peg @ Happy in Quilting and Susan @ Oh to Sew........i'm reporting in as ordered.demanded requested.......

Peg said to just sew something...Susan said I had to make 3 blocks in the week just 3............

I made 4 and a flower for another secret project..........;)

And since I have extra diamonds and waiting for my jewels (apparently special jewels-  got the wrong ones) I started some blocks from my scraps.........technically NOT a NEW project as the spares have been sitting in a basket waiting for extra papers..........

Catch you later

Chookyblue

animal adventures............

This is my passenger I had last week...........mum was down lambing...........got her up and standing then she wanted to run away from her baby...........so we threw mum in the back of the ute and baby in the front and brought them home...........

over night in the yards together and all was well.........here they are a few days later..........

last week Boy Wonder and I had to do some cattle work......Mr Chookyblue was away...........

Here I am trying to get one of the bulls in......he was not cooperating............

Yes he is taller then my little ute I was in........in the end we got  the other bulls in but this one was left in the paddock..........I wasn't taking him on and we were running out of time............i'm sure if Mr Chooky was here he would have just walked in for him............

Checking some cows.......yep this is the back end of Curly Pops

thumbs up yes she is pregnant...........

Here's  Boy Wonders "new" ute.............the Brumby has been parked in the shed for a few years..........

I feel like i'm sitting on the ground driving around in it..............lol...........i haven't driven it for about 8 years...........bit of a fix up of the gear box and a few other minor repairs shes running well again.........

all kinds of jobs are being done...........with the new independence of driving everywhere...........

"just got to go fix that fence", "just going to check this, check that......"

any excuse to go driving............one advantage of being a farm kid............driving all around the farm......

taking the cows back to the paddock last week.............
9mls last night..........just keeping everything damp which is great..........bring on the green...............

Catch you later

Chookyblue