Ribh's D'Coopage

[Ribh]

They probably appreciate you for it too! "We have fun at Grandma's and I know where I stand"

We never wanted to visit our paternal grandparents growing up. They were from the "children should be seen and not heard" generation (My Nana was born in 1901). We were expected to sit quietly while the adults talked or play with a small box of broken, 20 year old toys. The back yard was pretty dull too.

My maternal grandparents were like that. It was very dull & my grandmother always got upset that we didn't like visiting. My favourite aunt's place was a much better deal. She had a tree house in a Jacaranda, an outside dunny, a bath tub full of water lillies & gold fish, bees, chcikens, cats, dogs & a wonderful garden full of great cubby holes for children.

 

[drstratton]

I've very pleased with this latest bunch. They are super chill as well as really pretty & have melded well.

I'm so glad that you are enjoying them so much...they are all so adorable!

 

[drstratton]

Happy Caturday!
Marlow.

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So pretty...I wish I still had my big boy so that I could share Caturday pictures!

 

[drstratton]

My big girls braving the wet.

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Portia.
For some reason I'm having trouble getting decent photos of her.
She is going through her gawky teens.
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Her feathering is amazing.​

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Sorry. For some reason we've doubled up.​

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All of them are stunning gawky teen stage or not...

 

[drstratton]

And I busted Alpia tossing bedding over her shoulder this morning while keeping Luna's egg warm!
Hope we are not about to do another broody round.
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I hope not...for your sake as well as hers!

 

[drstratton]

Our first lot of tadpoles have all morphed into striped marsh frogs tok~toking away happily in our yard.

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Our next lot of eggs is under way.
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How fun! We have sand toads & some sort of tree frogs on our property.

 

[drstratton]

I have an excess of eggs just now so tonight's dinner was floating island pudding.
If I leave out most of the sugar it's almost healthy.
The white forms a soft meringue & the yolk is used to make the custard.
Yum!
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I used to read about this whenever I reread The Friendly Persuasion.
In the end I had to look it up & try it for myself.
It is beautifully simple!
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That looks so refreshing! I will have to look it up!

 

[drstratton]

I am a great Morai!
I take the kids for the day, run them ragged all morning & they both crashed for the afternoon.

While we waited on the tide coming in we hunted frogs & tadpoles & looked @ the new eggs. The kids were enchanted.

The lad was enraptured to find soldier crabs & puffer fish trapped in the swimming enclosure. We looked both up on google when we got home & proceeded to watch videos. Before I knew it the lad had joined his sister in slumber land.
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They are going to grow up with such awesome memories of you and the adventures you had together...

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

My maternal grandparents were like that. It was very dull & my grandmother always got upset that we didn't like visiting. My favourite aunt's place was a much better deal. She had a tree house in a Jacaranda, an outside dunny, a bath tub full of water lillies & gold fish, bees, chcikens, cats, dogs & a wonderful garden full of great cubby holes for children.

Yep, that's the sort of Grandma I want to be. Like you and your Aunt.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

How fun! We have sand toads & some sort of tree frogs on our property.

Ooooh, I have never heard of sand toads before. Do you have any pics?