Sun and rain.
Dawn's rosy glow on our wee house. Note the solar hot water collector on the roof.
We took Isabella for a stroll on the beach for her birthday.
Here's a picture of how I make bread without an oven. On the (horrible, Chinese) woodburner . Worked a treat!
The chickens are behaving differently... they're growing up! The cockeral is making some very strange noises - his voice is breaking, and the hens are begining to cluck. Exciting. Rob said he saw a saco rabo (mongoose) crossing the land the other day, so I am a bit concerned, especially since two of the chickens decided to sleep out for a couple of nights. This morning when the cockeral caught the two naughty birds he really gave them a concerned poke and peck. The other day we saw them all perching in the olive tree in front of the house!
It's been a bit of a miserable week for chickens and humans. Wet and windy, with the odd day of balmy spring stuff. But it is a lot warmer. Soon the garden will go balistic (she hopes).
Today, we took off to the Algarve, just because we felt a bit of cabin fever creeping in. We went to look at an electric bike and have a go. Quite an amazing sensation to be powered up-hill on a push bike! If I get one it will save a lot on petrol consumption, but I'm a bit scared of the speed they can go at!
The dome has been leaking so we have covered it in a tarp and Rob is designing a roof for it made from hessian and cement. I'm very excited about that. I've read about such roofs and seen a photo and it looked very pretty, draped concrete :).
All the cabbage seedlings have germinated quickly and soon I will have an abundance of young plants , brussel sprouts, red cabbage, green cabbage, brocolli, etc.
I also put some seeds of madder in pots and they too have come up. I am hoping to have a dyer's garden down near the hammock.
It has been a good week for spinning and dyeing. I spun a load of brown Alentejo sheep wool, and have dyed some shetland using lichen off the olive prunings. Made a nice yellow colour.
So, all in all a good if somewhat stormy week.
Great images of your life.. Love and hugs :-)
ReplyDeleteOur grandson not yet three (three months to go) found a little container of seeds (at my house while visiting last week) he had collected in the fall on one of our neighborhood walks. I'm not sure what prompted him to want to give up this collection, but he insisted that we leave them all under the front bush for the birds and squirrels. He asked if I knew the squirrels names. I guess that comes from watching Mickey's Club house and seeing Donald Duck, Daisy, Goofy and other 'animal' friends conversing.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your piece of sky and land.