Today I’m grateful for our family and friends, two and four-legged. :D I’m grateful that I managed to get all my errands done before I went to pick up our youngest grandson. :D I’m grateful that our youngest

Today I’m grateful for our family and friends, two and four-legged. :D I’m grateful that I managed to get the entire buffet and hutch top emptied, everything inside washed and replaced in a more pleasant

Today I’m grateful for our family and friends, two and four-legged. :D I’m grateful that we woke up to sunshine and a balmy 12 C temperature, it was nice to watch the snow melting away throughout the day,

Getting the garden plot all ready for planting this year. Added a lot of compost from my pile to try to improve the soil a bit. But this year I'm giving up on planting it all myself and have partnered

We turned Dolphin yesterday :) This got me thinking about what I appreciate about being here in steem for a year and a quarter now. I am sure I can come up with a lot of reasons, but here are my top three.

I planted walking onion sets last spring by sowing them directly in some of our garden beds. Several of them grew into nice bunches and over wintered really well! These onions did great in the snow. The

I recently seeded our solanaceae family plants in our greenhouse! This included tomatoes, peppers and eggplant. Our winter is quickly receding but we have to be wary of frost which can still hit us into

So thanks to a helpful robot Gina and @bobydimitrov I found out a great honor has been granted on me! I have been featured as a Shooting Star in the @qurator blog! Thank you kindly all involved in the

Picking the fruit from thorny bushes develops fine motor skills as well as trains the attention of kids. And they get a delicious tea as reward, not to mention rosehips jam and red berries to decorate

Tonight's sky that promised - and delivered - a little rain. I love the yellow of the flowering fever tree (acacia) against the grey of the heavy clouds. #photography #steemitbloggers #teamsouthafrica

Ingredients for tonight's supper and for the vegetarian option for Sunday night's supper. Special ingredient: homemade, homegrown and hand-ground organic chilli all the way from the Eastern Cape. #cooking

Today's kitchen produce - so far: balsamic onion marmalade. Building up stock for Christmas. #cooking #steemitbloggers #teamsouthafrica #gshc #share2steem There it is - until next time Fiona The Sandbag

FUNGI FRIDAY Check out these mushrooms / fungus growing on a tree along my driveway. My neighbor is a horse enthusiast, so yeah you do have to be on the lookout for those horses. Another view from above

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Rebecca woke me up at 4AM this morning, "The power is out and the chicks are peeping." They are supposed to stay in the incubator where it is warm and humid so they can dry off slowly. Their

The chicks are starting to hatch! Stay tuned for updates this weekend. Cheers, Professor Bromide

Sorry it has taken me so long to get this posted. Life happens. So without further ado... sorry, no photos allowed inside public buildings Saturday night after the second supply run, I was feeling totally

We got our first-ever chickens 6+ weeks ago, and I just love ‘em! We bought two different varieties online: light brahmas and white Plymouth rocks. They are fine looking birds, if you ask me. We went with