If you are not Australian, you may not know we all headed to the polls today to vote on who our next Prime Minister is going to be. (Who really probably has a good chance of being replaced during his or her term anyway, as has been the trend of recent years!!!!)
Nevertheless – my “Rainbow of the Day” shone up over the polling booths which was a lovely distraction from politics!!
I was with my cousin, Fiona (from yesterdays Fridays Footprints post) and we were two happy little tree hugging greenies together! 😀
On the way home we drove past one of those fabulous random country things – a young fellow playing the bagpipes by the highway for his family selling $2 pumpkins!! Fiona insisted we go back for a photo (and a bunch of pumpkins! 😀 )
Back home I had a little wander through the yard to say hi to the chooks and give them some scrap bread
Apparently I had left the gate open this morning and there were chickens everywhere that they shouldn’t be when Jeff got up! They must have had a wonderful morning!! Ooopsie!
I had gotten up at 5.30am!!!!! Clearly the brain wasn’t up to remembering things like ‘gates’ that early. Jeff should know better than to ask me to do complex tasks before 9am
Our Old Girl Screecher was looking very poorly this afternoon… She wouldn’t have a bar of the bread, which is very unusual. Was quite worried that, at her age, she might be heading down the slope.
She was on the nest rather than the roost when I tucked them in. I thought I would remove the eggs from under her as I hadn’t collected them today and thought she would be more comfy.
Well… I put my hand on a warm, shell-less egg!! Ew.
I hope she feels better tomorrow!!
Hope your weekend is going along fantastically!!!
Cheers
Well done and may the candidate you want win! xD
Poor Screecher! Hopefully she was just having an off day and will be better tomorrow. I didn’t know they could lay eggs without shells though, that must have been vaguely traumatizing at first. ;P
They are still counting I think! 😀
Yes… hope she is feeling brighter today… will go say hi to them soon.
I have never had a shell-less egg before, but gross as it sounds, its possible someone ate it before I saw it! This one was reeeaaaaly fresh! lol
Re Bagpiper, is that a Boy Scout uniform shirt on the piper? Can’t blow up the pic enough to really find out. My entire family were involved for many years with US scouting programs. Have many wonderful memories of going to England to live with an English Girl Guide. Trip was arranged through the Girl Scouts. Don’t think its done anymore.
Funny you should ask! Yes it is a Scout uniform! I posted it up on my facebook page – and of course, being a small town, the father of the boy was soon tagged and I was getting a message from him asking me for a copy of the photo! 🙂 He told me his son scout friend was selling pumpkins to help raise funds for a trip to NZ – so he took his bagpipes and went to give a hand!! Isn’t that awesome? Apparently he played for ANZAC Day (Big memorial day for Australia and New Zealand) and also goes and plays for the folk at a retirement home!!
Your experience going to England with the Scouts must have been amazing!! I never went to Girl Guides, but I went to Brownies when I was little! 🙂