What a difference a few days make!

Just a few days ago it was so wet, I hadn't had to water my garden for a few weeks, now I'm back to watering and thinking I need to put more straw on, as some of the beds are getting a little thin and drying out very quickly.

We picked our first zucchini:)
We will have quiche this week YUM!!

The bees are out doing their thing too now the rains stopped!

I've never liked bees, (they scare me more than spiders) I don't have a good reaction when stung, but must admit I did enjoy watching them yesterday going from flower to flower doing their thing.

Our beans are covered in these amazing flowers, they are so pretty and delicate.

 

I've had a lot of people ask for more photos of this little guy/gal, I'm not sure if its a he or she and not sure what breed as the eggs were given to us. So I tried to get better photos, boy was it hard work!! 

Aprox 3 weeks old now

Hiding behind Mum as I tried to take photos

 You can see its not a happy camper with me snapping away hehe Fingers crossed they give a better idea of what he/she is??

At a guess we are thinking buff orpington girl? 

But I have no really clue...it's like asking a weather man if its going to rain tomorrow.   :)

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After the rain...

Its always amazing you can water and water but nothing is ever as good as the rain. We haven't seen a lot of rain here this year so the last month has been great with a few days each week wet and its meant to continue in that pattern for some time....according to the weather man anyway.

Living in a small country town everyone has an opinion, one I like listening to is the older people in towns opinions of the weather pattern. See, we are all of the told the weather patterns have changed blah blah but when you talk to the oldies 70+ they will tell you there have been times like this before and locals here are predicting more rain with floods in February. I guess time will tell, it will be interesting to see.

The rain brings with it issues of its own, we have so many of these little guys no sooner do we think we have collected them all when more fly in to take their place!

It seems we may have a fungi issue too?

Then there is all the grass and weeds that grow!! Look how high that grass is and the weeds in the garden beds isn't much better :(  I started weeding it yesterday afternoon and did a little more today, the rabbits LOVE eating whatever I pull out....looks like they will be eating well for a while :)
 

Those HUGE tomato plants in the first garden we plant are finally doing something other than growing taller...look at these babies!! Can't wait till we start getting some tomato's nothing better than home grown, the store ones are so flavor less :(                    I LOVE tomato's can just eat them like apples YUM!!

 

The corn you could hardly

see last week have grown 

about three times as big after

the rain!

We will have the first Zucchini any day now.....might make a nice quiche with it and our fresh eggs YUM!! Can't wait. There are lots of little ones growing and lots more flowers just starting. Quiche is great for lunch or dinner, hot or cold with salad. Is so cheap too when your eggs are laid fresh daily and you grow your own zucchini, we just add whatever else we have on hand. Its always a hit!!

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