A few mornings ago the day care children and I dug up the last of our potatoes. Today after adding manure and straw we planted the bed with broad beans. Broad beans really are my favourite thing to plant with children. The seeds are big and easily handled and the sprouts are extra exciting because of their large size. Everyone had fun poking them into the ground and saying 'bye bye, well see you when you sprout!' (except for josh who was saying 'night night, see you in the morning!)
After that I let my chooks out to stretch their legs. The chickens don't free range all the time because they are rather mischevious....
See what I mean? she is heading straight for our newly planted broad bean seeds! They realy seem to be able to sniff out newly planted seeds
Lucky they lay us so many delicious fresh eggs. Weve been eating so many scrambled eggs lately, theres just nothing better on these cool days. They are best served with home grown tomatoe sauce from our local craft co-op (yes aj, I got some more. hope your enjoying yours too!)
now that the hot weather is over our rainbow chard has sprung back to life so soon we will be cooking more
egg and rainbow chard slice
On the weekend Anneke and I checked out a local market that is being held at my new favourite cafe. It was lots of fun an I got some ridiculously cheap plants (yay me!) Im contemplating setting up a stall and selling some hand made goodies there one day. If only days were just a few hours longer so that I would have more making time...
I am thankful to say, now that Hansi has gone on to school Im feeling so much more relaxed with one less child. I swapped my days around and now have monday mornings off. Im enjoying my days so much more now that im not quite so buisy. Now... must resist the urge to accept more work (ill try, its just so hard to say no to looking after more little ones, there all just far too cute:)
Thanks for the peek at your naughty hens. My husband and I are trying to figure out if we should do chickens this year. We don't have property, just a double lot in town. We already have a large corner fenced in for our rabbit. They could co-habitate nicely. But they would need to do some free ranging outside the bunny yard. Our garden looks to be at risk from your post. We'll be doing some more thinking. Love the glimpse of your heart for the kids in your writing.
ReplyDeleteYum, sauce is so good, will need to get more net time i visit and go back to the cafe for a strawberry smoothie and apple crumble. did Benny like his brownie? what a great idea to have a stall, wonder which cool person suggested that lol i think you would do really well, everything you make is gorgeous. hope to see you again soon AJ xoxoxo
ReplyDeleteLovely to see your hens and your garden. Your post over at Donni's was wonderful. So warm and sincere. I have always said that those children at your daycare are lucky to spend time with you. Blessings to you, Karen, on your journey.
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