Here goes the test.....

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Chookyblue......

Keeping the love of blogging alive

Bathurst fun....

Some progress..... 

Pics all mixed up..... 

Girls from yesterday and sunrise walk with Kate this morning..... 

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Chookyblue.....

'Keeping the love of blogging alive'

Oh my %$&()*%##&* god....

See the baby plover in the water.............he is so cute...maybe 10cm high when standing on the ground.......I have seen the plovers at this water hole for weeks now so thought there could be babies......they are fiercely defensive mothers..........

So I am supposed to be going on retreat today..........lucky I packed the car yesterday..........the trip into town for work was horrendous........worst I have ever had I think.........got bogged twice.......spent more time sideways and travelling from one side to the other then on the road............2 cars had been in before me.........one of them had taken out a sign post...........

and more rain is forecast so I may not go home til I finish town work next week..........sorry about all the mud on the windscreen......

So after a 6hrs trip yesterday afternoon to pick someone up I am now in a motel on my way to the Bathurst Blog Meet........see the little counter on my sidebar.......

you should see how many million projects I packed in the car........I could stay away for months and not get them finished but hey we always need options when on retreat.............

1/2 these awesome girls (2015 pic) plus some new ones will be hanging out together for the weekend...........

I can't wait to give them all a big hug and catch up............

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

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

Who needs garden flowers.....

With views like this who needs garden flowers...... 

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Chookyblue.....

Flooded again....

A 3 km walk in gumboots is not what I would recommend everyday..........

You can't go any direction from the house without having to cross water.......

One challenge of being in the bush and trying to get a walk in.....

Atleast it wasn't slippery like it was the other day when I did a shorter walk...... 

A few things to take pics of so I can share here..... 

Hopefully back soon.....

Catch you later.....

Chookyblue......

Keeping the love of blogging alive..... 

Calves update.........

Hungry calves ready for milk.......

they suck and slobber on everything.............

Boris munching away on some grass... He has grown so much.......

a random flower in my walk around.......

Boris, Hetty and Big Love.....

Feeding left to right in each section..... 

Boris, grey boy, jo the jersey,  jersey girl 

FJ, Big Love (heart on her forehead), Spot, Fred 

Hetty, Black Boy,  No Love (probably needs a better name but she came the same time as Big Love and she doesn't have a heart on her forehead) 

Whitey wasn't on the feeder then but he is now........no pic of him..

 a sea of daisies............

 so pretty...........

the poddies found the oats......... 

 Goatie aka Black Betty climbing all over Fred.........

she jumps up on everything.........she can jump very high and she is tiny..........

look at those little horns.......

Wow where did August go????

Catch you later.....

Chookyblue.....

'Keeping the love of blogging alive'

Lucy progress and a cracked thumb again......

I didn't want to share this until I showed Sandy last weekend..... 

It is very exciting to be starting to join things together.......still got filler blocks to make BUT this is a great incentive to keep going........
5/42 joined...
I'll join sections like this then put them together.......

Mind you once you start to join things it gets harder moving it all around to stitch....... Pulled a pile of papers out today...... Most i can reuse.....

Found a solution for my cracked thumb...... The last 2 cracks took quite some time to heal.... Kept taking the bandaids off of a day as I couldn't stitch but then I would keep hurting them and slowing the healing...... then I couldn't stitch for a week or more...........

the crack is right on the point of my thumb right angles to my nail........I went looking for a steri-strip to try but then I thought of this stuff....called Hypafix......... It is something I got from the skin specialist one time to go over stitches (in skin)........it is so soft and pliable nothing pulls and it stays on pretty well considering you use your hands so much but I just run it over the top of my thumb and it holds the crack together and the best part I can still stitch..... 

probably won't worry about the strip running around to hold the ends down.........they stayed very well.........

Catch you later....... 

Chookyblue......

'Keeping the love of blogging alive'

Shopping......

I saw this kit at Stitching Between the Bridges in Tamworth and it made its way to the Chookshed...... It's the latest Tilda fabrics..... So soft and pretty...... 

I got this great tin at a shop in Goondiwindi.....  

They have some lovely shops in Gundy......

These are the best scissors and Sandy @ Shiralee Stitches had a cover with a chain...even better... This little cover is a little easy to lose but not now it is attached..... 

I've had my eye on the quick curve ruler (QCR) since it came out but finally saw it in the flesh so had to buy it.......

I didn't really want to make this pattern with it until I saw Sandy's that she is working on and I decided I needed it..... 

the rest of the shopping.............my kit and Fairy Girls kit..........some fabrics.......the spool holder and a roll of the light brown thread........

I only use Bottomline Thread for my EPP...........it is just the best...........and I rarely use more then 2 colours of thread............

Chinty Tree of Life is a present for me from me.........

Have a great weekend........

very quiet here which will be perfect...........

Catch you later......

Chookyblue.....

'Keeping the love of blogging alive'