These are our six newish hens safe in the chookyard, with our rooster, Tina Turner, outside the yard but wanting to visit them. He, and our other three roosters, have not been given visitation rights yet and I have advised the hens not to make eye contact with any of the guys until I have given them the ‘birds & bees’ talk, hence this photo!
Oh yes, and they are all also watching the goose olympics.
Godfrey: FOLLOW ME, EVERYONE!
Bubble (whispering): Baby Turkey, I have a plan. We’ll humour the old grouch for a few minutes and then we’ll pounce.
Baby Turkey: What does ‘pounce’ mean?
Bubble: You’ll see.
Gang: Oh no – not again!
Geese: Since when did Daffy lead the way?
Daffy: I’m the one most terrified of Godfrey.
Godfrey: That’s it – Hup, two three four, hup, two, three, four! Come on, turkeys, keep up!
Bubble: You grab his wings and I’ll peck his eyes out.
Baby Turkey: Oh, is that what you meant by ‘pounce’? Yes – let’s do it!
Uluru: You seem worried, Okami.
Okami: I am.
Cattle: Those furry things were okay but not sure about the weirdos.
Okami: It’s okay, moos, I am looking into the problem.
Emery 1: Keep eating, girls. I just heard those moo things refer to us as weirdos.
Uluru: Thanks for the leftovers – they’re great! So what are you going to do, Okami?
Okami: I am going to have a quiet word with Julie.
Now that the Emerys (emus) are big enough, we have been able to transfer them into a larger area to join Okami and Uluru, the alpacas. This is the first time I have ever seen the alpacas a little feisty. Today, whenever the Emerys ventured near to the alpacas, Okami, the biggest, would hiss and Uluru would copy him. This caused the timid Emerys to zigzag-sprint all over the place – hilarious!
Uluru: I don’t like this situation, Okami.
Okami: Just ignore them and they might go away.
Uluru: Yeah, but they’re too big to get through the fences now.
Okami: Good point. Okay, let’s just hope this is temporary.
Uluru: I’ve never heard you hiss before – it was amazing!
Okami: I’ve never heard me hiss before either, Uluru, but I never cease to amaze myself. Now keep eating; we don’t want them getting our food too.
Uluru: Would you like me to chase them again?
Okami: That’s a good idea; you chase and I’ll eat. Off you go.
Okami’s ears are always up.
Uluru’s ears are usually down ….
…. and sometimes up!
Phoenix 1 thinks their ear antics are a sign of immaturity.
Remember, several posts ago I put up a photo of a Harley Davidson that was actually a cake and my little guessing game resulted in lots of complimentary comments to the cake maker, my good friend, Julie (another Julie, not me)? Okay, so if you don’t remember, here is the picture of Julie’s husband, Barry’s 50th birthday cake, courtesy of Julie (both the picture and the cake itself).
Yes, I know it is difficult to believe that this is a cake (Ants and I were at the birthday party briefly and I even touched this bike, but still couldn’t believe it was a cake!) And even now it seems almost inconceivable that someone could do something this creative and fool an intelligent person like me -ha!~
Julie is not only the madcakelady, she is also a person without guile (and I am yet to meet another one as guileless), a wife and mother, the definition of a smile and a very good friend. And her husband, Baz, is Anthony’s favourite friend. When Ants turned 75 and was still living here at home, over a year ago, I threw a massive party and guess who made the cake (actually she made a couple as well as those profiterolly things) – Julie did!
So, for you cakey types (I don’t like cake but Julie still loves me), she needs a vote so you have to follow her instructions below. Now, I don’t usually do this kind of thing on the blog but I have made a special concession for our very own Made Cake Lady! The following is a copy/paste of her facebook request:
Ok my wonderful friends – I have entered my Harley Davidson Cake into a cake competition and need your help
This is a big one going into a draw to share in $7000 worth of prizes but cant win without your help – could you please use the link to “like” my cake everyday.
You can vote more than once but only once a day PLEASE HELP ME…
PLEASE USE THE BELOW LINK TO VOTE OR IT DOESN’T COUNT.
Vote For My Cake!
www.cakerevolution.cweb.com.au
Simply ‘Like’ my cake and you could also win a $1,499 Kenwood Chef Mega Pack!
Okay, I have now done my bit of unusual blogging and I think you can see, from the photo below, why I love her!
Yes, I posted these photos some time ago but just wanted to remind myself; Mathilda’s piglets above and Vegemite’s below. By now those piglets will be MASSIVE!
Feeling a bit nostalgic!
Before replacing my pig passion with birdiness, and before Mathilda experienced her growth spurt, I purchased another little piglet – Vegemite – who happened to be Mathilda’s half-sister. This worked out beautifully because our dogs (two miniature – yes miniature – dachschunds) hated Mathilda, so she was a bit lonely. Mathilda and Vegemite adored each other.
However, it wasn’t long after the above picture was taken that both pigs became bored with simply nibbling grass and began to dig and I mean DIG! For those of you tempted to get a pet pig, let me tell you pigs dig; they dig with their snouts and they dig fast. In the space of a few seconds Mathilda and Vegemite would dig holes the size of small craters. I could have planted a forest if I had wanted to.
So, in the face of Husband’s and Son’s fury, I was forced to…
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Odd friendships (Emery 2 and Baby Turkey)
Intimidating friendships (Bubble 1 and Uluru)
Alliance friendships (Tapper and one of the guinneas)
Fashion friendships (Tina Turner and Phoenix 1)
Uneasy friendships (Queenie and Phoenix 1)
Terrifying friendships (Doc with the two Bubbles)
Supervised friendships (The Bubbles, Baby Turkey and Jack)
Childhood friendships (Zaruma 1 and Bubble 1)
Avocado tree friendships (Phoenix 1 and King)
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