Of Chickens and Candles and Holes (by sarah)
This weekend has been absurdly busy, for a start I have finally been putting the attic back together after the whole roof fixing of last year! Then there were chickens! It was time to fetch our new rescue chooks - these ones are slightly less rescued than the previous lot as they came from a free range farm and so are a lot perkier than the first lot were initially. They also look better with already red combs and wattles.
It was getting dark by the time we got back with them so photos are not brilliant I'm afraid. Felix who is one of the original four, is not impressed as she is in the rabbit run whilst they settle in.
She was always quiet pecky so we shall have to see how introductions go!
We had planned on getting four hens but when we got there they had spares, so we ended up with 6. Their names are:
1) Squwashy - apparently this is something minecraft related that Jeany has picked.
2) Rose - named by Mary, she didn't give a reason
3) Chris - a chicken scheme programmer as picked by Alaric
4) Pete - another chicken scheme programmer
5) Tardis - this is my chicken 🙂
6) Firefly - this is my dad's chicken and apparently the most intellegent of all the dinosaurs.
They laid an egg on the way home and have since laid 3 more - we had fried eggs for dinner. The run looks so much better with chickens in it 🙂
The weekend also saw Alaric drilling holes in the walls.
Apparently I didn't want this part of the house! No he isn't just randomly destroying the house - he is network cabling so that we can have proper internet in all the rooms in the house etc...
Also the compressor was the best buy EVER! It now unsurprisingly has a hole saw attachment.
Last but certainly not least - Jeany has been wanting to do some more of her candle making for ages, in sorting the attic I discovered just how many candle ends we had accumulated - to be fair friends do post her candle ends to melt down.
This is her main craft activity that she does with Alaric, and it is also her little business which she started years ago now 🙂
Infact the square moulds that came with the starter kit that... erm... started it all broke, so this is the last batch of square candles until she sells some candles and buys a square mould with the money.
It was a pretty epic weekend to be honest.
Alaric, Art and Craft, Building Maintenance, Chickens, Jean | sarah | 
Mon 2nd Mar 2015 10:08 am
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