OH MY

I'm getting chickens!!

I just blurted it out to David that I wanted chickens and he didn't come back with the normal "you can't have chickens", he asked why so I just said it was because I wanted some bantams. He did ask what bantams were and I had to remind him that they were the type we had a few years back. Then he asked where I'd put them and told me I'll need to get chicken wire. He didn't say no and I am recording this here to prove it to him for when I bring them home and he says "but I said no". Didn't work the last time, even though that time I didn't ask and just brought chickens home. Had to give them away when we moved here, had nowhere for them then.

Umm we just smelt what we thought was burning toast - checked the stove to see if it was on and realised I had rice in the microwave, I accidently set it to the wrong time and the rice burnt. I pulled out the container and the base of it was left behind on the turntable ooops. Oh well I've been wanting to replace my microwave plastic with glass, been replacing it bit by bit.

Oh and the fridge we picked up on Sunday worked for 8 hours before setting the safety switch off in the meterbox. We are hoping it's a loose wire or something easy to fix. So right now I have the old fridge sitting in the middle of the kitchen with the new not working fridge in place.

It's my son's birthday today, he is 13. He is such a lovely boy and a great help to me, he helps with the housework usually eagerly, his sister is much more reluctant. We bought him a couple of toys that he wanted, cricket stumps and cricket balls. He was given an old good quality cricket bat a few weeks back, all it needed was a new grip. The new grip was bought and David tried getting it on but couldn't so had to buy some tool. Which he left in the family room unused, he said he had to work out how to get the grip on it. A couple of days later I decided to try and worked it out, I was really proud of myself too, especially seeing that I am not sports minded at all. Thomas didn't even believe I had done it.

I have been doing some more sewing too, finished another apron today and I also pulled out a 2 year old UFO over the weekend. It was a shortened kimono coat, I wanted it as a pj top so made it shorter. It needed binding and hemming. I hadn't gotten around to getting a pattern for the pants and found the simplicity pj pants were perfect. So I finally finished them and now have another lot of fabric out of my stash.