posted by Lily on chatter, chickens, cooking, family

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I meant to post this last night … but fell asleep watching a film with Julian and Hannah … so we can pretend it’s still Sunday can’t we.  I’m sure it is somewhere in the world :-)

Lots of kitchen time … stocks for the freezer made with the sun parched herbs from our garden …

homemade sausages – Jules is fixated with perfecting the pork & herb sausage – I wanted a wee bit of apple too – but no, first we have to get the fat vs. meat vs. meal blend just right – apparently herbs don’t contribute to this …

our second bread and butter pudding for the week – stale challah, home laid eggs (sigh of admiration for my dear little feathered girls), and homemade wild plum jam (hopefully pick more on Tuesday!) …

the nailing and digging and layering on top of more chicken wire (actually using mouse mesh – much stronger, more durable and neater to work with) – we dug it down about 15 centimetres, laid it out flat about 15 centimetres, then heaped the dirt back on and packed it down with rocks – think perhaps the site of our chook run was once a rockery, we keep digging up more and more rocks!

visiting cousins – sitting in the late afternoon shade, lots of playing with Fu, silliness, laughing …

and very dirty feet – does the dirt accumulated on one’s feet = the amount of effort put in? Oh please say it does :-)