Ribh's D'Coopage

[Ribh]

@Aussie-Chookmum: I just saw you have added your location. I'm an ex~Sydney girl & love, love, love the Blue Mountains! One of my favourite books [The Waterlily by Kate Llwellyn] is set @ Leura. Sadly she never kept chooks. I think they would have helped with her angst.

 

[MaryJanet]

Hi @Aussie-Chookmum ! I'm looking forward to seeing your photos

 

[Ribh]

Ta~da! Our first waterlily flower!​

 

[Kris5902]

Ta~da! Our first waterlily flower!​

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So pretty! I love it

@Aussie-Chookmum... welcome, I also can’t wait to see pics of your feathered friends! Chickens, and sunsets, and flowers... oh my!!!

Easter is exhausting... but good to spend with family. I’m glad I’m not the only one to suffer “city-shock” every time I have to go back.

 

[Ribh]

So pretty! I love it

@Aussie-Chookmum... welcome, I also can’t wait to see pics of your feathered friends! Chickens, and sunsets, and flowers... oh my!!!

Easter is exhausting... but good to spend with family. I’m glad I’m not the only one to suffer “city-shock” every time I have to go back.

There is a reason I live where I do. How were the family shenanigans? It sounds like it might have been fun...?

 

[Kris5902]

There is a reason I live where I do. How were the family shenanigans? It sounds like it might have been fun...?

I was very stressed, dinner was ok. We were required to buss the tables and wash up... I was worried about my chicks, especially my bottom boy who I penned separately in the run for protection before I left. It was an eat ASAP, so I can wash up for 20 people, so as I can go make sure my 62 chickens are all up for the night. I don’t mind doing my share, but I don’t appreciate being treated like hired help. And am not a huge fan of “formal” dinners to start with. Yeah, I hold my fork in my right hand and knife in my left... get over it. I also bat and golf left, despite being right handed.

Hopefully this will be the last year of the “egg hunt”. Three people were short their bags of chocolate. Likely due to the dogs (everyone seems ok though! Thankfully) four outdoor dogs, two outdoor cats, and all the raccoons, birds, and rodents, I don’t know why hiding bags of food in the garden seems like a good idea...

I would’ve loved a quiet relaxing dinner with friends. That’s what I miss about the city (aside from convience), getting together with friends after work for a pint. The relaxed quiet of a good scotch and the murder* edit: *murmer! I’m not a total psycho!!! Darn you auto correct! of the late night crowd at the local pub (I worked the late shift, so aside from Friday and Saturday, things were usually pretty low key by the time we got off work).

 

[Ribh]

I was very stressed, dinner was ok. We were required to buss the tables and wash up... I was worried about my chicks, especially my bottom boy who I penned separately in the run for protection before I left. It was an eat ASAP, so I can wash up for 20 people, so as I can go make sure my 62 chickens are all up for the night. I don’t mind doing my share, but I don’t appreciate being treated like hired help. And am not a huge fan of “formal” dinners to start with. Yeah, I hold my fork in my right hand and knife in my left... get over it. I also bat and golf left, despite being right handed.

Hopefully this will be the last year of the “egg hunt”. Three people were short their bags of chocolate. Likely due to the dogs (everyone seems ok though! Thankfully) four outdoor dogs, two outdoor cats, and all the raccoons, birds, and rodents, I don’t know why hiding bags of food in the garden seems like a good idea...

I would’ve loved a quiet relaxing dinner with friends. That’s what I miss about the city (aside from convience), getting together with friends after work for a pint. The relaxed quiet of a good scotch and the murder* edit: *murmer! I’m not a total psycho!!! Darn you auto correct! of the late night crowd at the local pub (I worked the late shift, so aside from Friday and Saturday, things were usually pretty low key by the time we got off work).

It's been a while but....really? That's how you hold your knife & fork? So do I ~ & I'm right handed. Well, for most things, just not eating. lol

I dislike most things where I can't just up & leave. Checking the chickens several times before bed is a given round here. It pays to be diligent though we are lucky so far as predators are concerned.

We were supposed to go into town [as in right into Brisbane] for lunch @ a fancy restaurant with extended family but neither of us could face it after church & begged off. We are still under the weather from it all, which must sound so silly to your average urbanite, but our days generally operate @ a much slower & quieter pace & town quite literally makes us ill.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

@Aussie-Chookmum: I just saw you have added your location. I'm an ex~Sydney girl & love, love, love the Blue Mountains! One of my favourite books [The Waterlily by Kate Llwellyn] is set @ Leura. Sadly she never kept chooks. I think they would have helped with her angst.

I read "The Waterlily" when I first moved up to the Blue Mountains! It's appropriate you bringing it up considering what's blooming in your garden right now

 

[Ribh]

I read "The Waterlily" when I first moved up to the Blue Mountains! It's appropriate you bringing it up considering what's blooming in your garden right now

lol I re~read it every so often because the language is so beautiful ~ but of course she's a poet! Like I re~read Monkey Grip. Someone else who should have kept chooks...

I think the Man has visions of doing *waterlily honey* when we get our beehives going ~ as well as propagating & selling ~ waterlilies that is..

 

[MaryJanet]

Monkey Grip is such a moment in Australian literature. I'm a huge Garner fan