What has been your highlight today, no matter how big or small? Come share 🫶

Is Wilbur your finch app ?

I'm doing quilting. My head is all scrambled and I want to do millions of things at the same time.

@Cuddlebear @Chasingsunsets @Bunniekins @AlwaysMyself @ENKELI @Glisten

@PeppyPatti hey PeppyPatti i wish you could do a quilt for me! i have always wanted one but never talented enough to make one.xx

@Bunniekins tonight I'll show you what they look like before they are quilted up. They are just squares but together a bit weird then heaps of sewn by machine embroidery stitches outside the square down the line inbetween

The squares ....

It's pretty easy.

The expense is different coloured expensive thread.

The design on the whole quilt.

The time it takes to do a quilt is crazy but very enjoyable. You just think your life is about measuring and patience

,❤️🌿🦋🐞🪴🐶

Wanna cup of tea ?

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@PeppyPatti hey PeppyPatti i would love a cup of tea please 🙂

can you take photos as you go with your quilt i cannot wait to see the final product xxx

@Bunniekins @Chasingsunsets @PeppyPatti @Cuddlebear @AlwaysMyself

Today's climax was fertilising the fruit trees and cleaning my pond filter.

The filter has been running for near 5 months and accumulated much debris. 20 litres of slushy fertiliser, i know all fruiting plants love it. So i cleaned it today. Physical labour wise this was no big deal, maybe just over 10 minutes of physical labour, but it took a lot of time emptying and filling up again with clean water. All up the filter contains around 850 litres of water. Most of the water i could add to the pond, but some of it, became very dirty cleaning, and i had to get rid of and replace.Luckily we have a bore, as well as free rain water, so water is no issue for us.

Fertilising the fruit trees was a big job, my wife and me did together. We have many fruit trees, (30+) but can not give them granulated fertilisers because all trees are visited by ducks, chicken, Guinea fowl, and Geese, and we know pellet fertilisers harm birds, so we liquid fertilise them.

However to do this five times the labour, and many times heavier work, but well worth it getting tons of fresh fruit throughout the first months of Summer and the Apples at Autumn, without harming any birds. (for apart of our own birds we have many other species of wild birds visited us as well, especially in the latter Summer months, when water all around has become more scares but our dam is still full of water and things to eat. We get cranes, spoon bills, swans, wild ducks, Ibises as well as various types of coots and other swamp birds.

Wild Australian chickenRoos live on the back of our blockDucks on the raft we build for themyoung lifeOnly a month awayThis is what we re looking forward toFirst harvest last year.Huntsman like our placeBlack cockatoos love our pine trees.

We have different peaches, apricots, oranges, mandarines, pears, Kiwi fruit, Nash apples, as well as lots of different time fruiting plumbs and also early plumb-cots, they are yummy as.

We ate our first blue berries. Only just a dozen, between us both, but they were yummy. i love fresh blue berries. They are my favourites.

Hi everyone!

Haha @AlwaysMyself! I love pigeons, funny to hear about your wolf hound! My girl also does care about birds but she interest in trying to chase a kangaroo but I don’t let her and she does listen to me which is good.

Hey @Cuddlebear thinking of you and hope things start to get easier for you! 🙏

Wow @PeppyPatti you have an awesome range of quilt fabrics there! How’s the quilting going?

Wow @DownMoreThanUp you have been so busy! Love your garden, look at all the life you have there. Those baby birds are very cute. Do you know what type they are?

love the raft the first bird, his feet were huge! Everything - all the fruit, so amazing!!

My highlights today was seeing the male fig bird and also a female fig bird. Must be breading time soon!

At the shops I also brought some socks with a frog face on them they were cute!

both in the tree above

@Chasingsunsets "Those baby birds are very cute. Do you know what type they are?"

They are the singing honeyeaters. We got lots of them. They love bathing in our waterfall stream, as do these little Finches. Although they are only recently coming back in more numbers, for after the neighbours left, they also left their cat behind, who came and got a lot of our Finches while bathing, for they were not used to a cat at our place, until i managed to chase it away, hitting it with a stone, while it was trying to catch more birds. (Throwing stones is how i chased a tiger snake away from the pond eating our frogs, as well as a crane who kept coming early in the morning after our gold fish. Luckily i'm a good shot.)Finch

Honeyeaters

highlight was finishing therapy at 12 comung back inside and waking up at 7.30 haha, finally caught up on some sleep!

@DownMoreThanup the australian chicken pic is called pukeko in NZ, dont fly a great deal and always round estuarys, you must make some good jams with so much fruiy!

@AlwaysMyself wolfhounds are beautiful dogs so smart and loyal, always wondered are they big shedders?

Hope all had good days

@DownMoreThanUp
Duck pontoon ✅

Duck eggs - yum 😋

Real live Pokémon Kangaskhan

The best fruits I have ever seen 🙌🏼😍 Love Kiwi 🥝 fruit 🤤

Where’s the horses?

Miniature cow?

Goat 🐐?

@AlwaysMyself and @Bunniekins I will definitely make a thread with my recipes. Watch this space lol!

That pigeon is pretty too, I haven't seen one like that before.