Which egg?

Question:
Which one of these girls has the least experience in laying eggs?  In other words, which egg indicates the youngest layer in the brood?

Answer:

The smallest yolk.



Good Friday...

Thanks be to thee, my Lord Jesus Christ,
For all the benefits thou hast won for me,
For all the pains and insults thou hast borne for me.

O most merciful Redeemer, Friend, and Brother,
May I know thee more clearly,
Love thee more dearly,
And follow thee more nearly:
For ever and ever.

Prayer of St Richard of Chichester - 1197-1253

Two hens, an egg... and then... Miss Inquisitive...

Marmalade...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmalade

Homemade the old-fashioned way...

Yes! Hubby bakes bread and wants to perfect his technique!

I'm game! Yum! Nothing like the smell of freshly baked bread...

and fresh ground coffee!

Happy chatting with my mother...

When my mom and I get chatting we talk about all kinds of things... and love to talk about the family trips she took us all on when we were kids... This evening's conversation included the following topics:

Which flag in the world has a bunch of bananas on it?  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Fiji.svg

Nile River... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile_River


Panama hats... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_hats

Iguacu Falls... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iguacu_Falls

Amazon River...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_River
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Negro - Amazon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_river

Uruguay... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay

Lake Titikaka... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Titicaca

Lima... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima

Moon Valley... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valle_de_la_Luna_(Bolivia

Yellow Fever... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_fever

Mountain sickness...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_sickness
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altitude_sickness

Wow! We covered a lot of ground! And we have both decided to put a world map on a wall in our homes, so that we can refer to it, like we used to when I was a teenager...

...we touched on Mauritius and decided to leave that for another day! Lol !

Thanks Mom, for all the happy and very interesting memories we've made! xx

Chichester Cathedral...

We went to Chichester Cathedral today, to greet and pray for our new Archbishop Welby.

The atmosphere was just wonderful! May God bless him. Amen.

The picture above was copied from the BBC News web page.

This is a little video recording I made of the 'Archbishop-to-be' as he walked

toward the entrance of Chichester Cathedral. Today's technology! Amazing!

 NB: The person talking in this video is not me, but a lady standing just to

the left of me, talking to someone else - it is not my voice you are hearing.

Easter Tea... Looking forward to it!

The three little eggs were layed by my sweet little new hens.

The hens are only 20 weeks old and they are lovely, a great joy!

Rooster... & Patient...

When one goes out for a drink in the local pub, one never knows what could happen next… Yesterday, hubby had been rehearsing a wedding with a couple getting married today and phoned me up to say to meet them all at the pub, across from the church. I did so and after the soon to be married couple and their family left, we met up with our neighbours who were there, too. We were chatting about our hens, which we both keep and I was saying about how my girls (hens) were pecking each other, literally to death, when… a man sitting at the bar next to us politely interjected and said, he had two Bantam Cockerels who needed a new home, would I and my lady friend be interested! No charge! Well, we both jumped in with a resounding ‘Yes!’ and will be fetching them this morning! Hopefully my ‘hen-pecking’ days will be over! Watch this space…

...Say ‘Hello!’ to Arnie, my first ever cockerel – a Bantam… Isn’t he the beezneez!

Here he is with the girls…

2 Sept 2012

And here is my little patient who is now the third of my ‘hen-pecked’ victims… I don’t think she is going to survive… so sad! She’s mainly staying inside the sick bay… But yesterday, Arnie was introduced to the remaining three girls one of whom is the bully and he sorted her out so swiftly… so, hopefully that will be the end of the bullying. Fingers crossed+

My poor little girl… x

4 Sept 2012:  My little baby girl died in her sleep last night… xxx

A little about me...

Married to the Ministry

Christian Faith

Love my babies: 10 x Hens & Mr Roodeldoo, Dog, Cat

Love:  my family – United Kingdom/South Africa

Love:  Quilting, Crochet, Knitting, Photography, Traveling/Touring, Reading, Writing, Music, Films,
Little House on the Prairie, The Waltons, Nature, Bumble Bees…

Find TV violent and boring – rarely watch it.

Enjoy browsing ‘Antique Junk Shops’, Craft Shops

Admire the Amish

Dream of going to America

Would love to… own a Chevrolet Pick-up Truck and a Caravan… …live on a Farm…

Tan' Malie se Winkel...

When I was growing up in South Africa, 'Tan' Malie se Winkel' is a place (shop and restaurant) on the Harbeespoort Dam, to which my mom took me, my brothers and my gran, for Sunday outings. It is a time and place in my life I remember fondly... and some of the best days spent with family! Thanks mom. x

 View returning home after our happy day out...

...perhaps, someday... I'll go there again...x

New hens in the house...

Above are the new hens (x 7), which I brought home last Saturday... and Mr Roodeldoo... and today we have our first little egg from one of the girlies! So small...x

When weeds must...

A friend rang up and asked if she could pop in for a quick cup of tea. Realising I had no flowers to put on the tea tray, I ran into the garden and picked what I could find! Simply, delightfully dandy! She loved this little arrangement - so did I... PS: I'm talking about last summer... still waiting for this summer to show up! x

Bill Coleman & The Amish

I don’t know as much about the Amish as I would like to, but there is one man who has blessed me with the gift he has… Bill Coleman! A wonderful photographer who has spent 40 years of his life, photographing the Amish… I just love his work…x

Have a look at this link:  Bill Coleman Photography

Pope Francis I

May God Bless, Guide and Keep our new Pope, Pope Francis I.

I ask this in the name of Jesus Christ, for the Love of God and the Fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Pope Francis I

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