The past few weeks have been incredibly hectic here at the frogpondsrock household. The Spouse spent 5 days in hospital with blood poisoning, Veronica had a birthday, Amy has been eating gluten, Isaac has been having meltdowns, David has been acting like a 16 year old, I have been crabby, the dog vomited on my bed, some cows wandered through the property nomming on my fruit trees, the cat vomited behind the woodheater,twice, two hens are broody on well hidden secret nests full of infertile eggs, I miss my Mum dreadfully and to top it all off, I have put on more weight.
In between all the mad dashing about like a headless chicken, I have managed to grab a few minutes to catch my breath and do a few things for myself. I submitted these images as part of my application for the inaugural Vitrify Alcorso Ceramic Award 2011.
I also have entered these three dragon eggs in the Cast Members Exhibition, which opens next Friday, 6pm at the CAST Gallery 27 Tasma street North Hobart.
I have been trying to photograph the European Gold Finches that have been eating the zillions of aphids in the honeysuckle, without scaring them away and that has been a bit tricky, as these little birds are super shy and fly off at the first sign of movement.
The other evening The Spouse took me outside to show me something in the front yard.
We had cows in the front yard, two of them with calves at foot had just wandered in off the road.
I didn’t mind at first as I have plenty of grass at the moment and the more they ate the less The Spouse has to mow. It didn’t take long before the cows decided that the new growth on my fruit trees was more to their liking and David spent the next two hours in the drizzle chasing the rotten things away from my fruit trees while we tried to find their owners.
Harry the dog wasn’t impressed at being locked inside as the arrival of a small herd of cows reminded him that his father was a blue heeler and all he wanted to do was bite the cows on the nose and then nip round the back and have a go at their heels.Eventually we tracked down their very grateful owners who came up and took their cows home again.
Now that the weather is warming up a bit I like to have the doors open but there is one downside to an open front door. The downside being this very old chicken likes to come inside and sit up on the couch. I was trying to take a photo of her on the couch when The Spouse came inside and growled at me for taking photos when I should have been shooing chickens off the furniture and scared her away, here she is very casually making her way back out the front door.
I bought some more happy socks when I was in Melbourne. I started to wear happy, stripey socks when Mum was first diagnosed with Lung cancer. On the days when I don’t want to get out of bed I put on my happy socks and smile to myself as I think of my Mum saying pull your socks up girl.
And a couple more photos for luck.
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Chickens on the couch and stray cows… that’s when you know you live in the country!
I have a stripy sock thing too, my mum sent me a pair from the UK (where she was living at the time) and I wore them the day I found out I was pregnant with twins. It them became a thing.. I had to wear them every time I had an OB visit and every scan and then I wore them constantly while I was in hospital and even had them on the day the girls were born.
I still have those socks…. they are thread bare, have holes in them and are unwearable but every time I see them tucked in the back of my draw it reminds me yet again how lucky I am.
Stripy socks have special powers… I hope yours do their job well and make you smile.
That happens to me all the time – cows wandering through my front yard – despite the neighborhood association rules against them. I love the last cow picture. It looks like a foggy morning.
All those crappy things happening over the past few weeks and yet the sun still comes up and gives you another day to make your mark 😉 And make it you do! Those are wonderful photos and the ceramics are amazing. I especially love the glaze on the shell in the third photo. Good luck with the Award entry.
I am a fan of funky shoes and loud socks even though the rest of my attire is quite staid. To me it says there is still a young and fun person in the somewhat knackered and overweight body I now inhabit.
Ah, those days that we think we shouldn’t have got out of bed sometimes turn into a week … or more. But then something happens to make you smile, even if it is a chicken sitting on the sofa.
goodness gracious me…………..you have had a lot of your plate recently………hugs….
i do love that shell and the pics of the finches are gorgeous.
LOL on the chook!!!
more hugs
ROFL @ the chook.
I saw the Dragon Eggs and facebook and just fell in love with them, so peaceful.
Heidi loves her stripy socks but prefers to wear mismatched stripy socks.
LOL I’m sure our chookens would sit on the couch if they could. They are always trying to get inside! No cows though.
I LOVE your dragon eggs and shells. Good luck with your entries.
Hope things are more settled for you now.
Good post. I like the idea of happy socks. I’ll pinch that idea if it’s okay with you.
Hugs & love to you all. Brilliant photos. My old neighbour kept hens, she’d rehomed some of them & nursed them back to health after they’d been battery hens. Poor little bedraggled things with no feathers. One took a while to get healthy again but it’s trust in humans was amazing, it would jump up onto people’s laps and demand to be petted. She used to find this hen in her bedroom all the time, it’d sneak up the stairs & wait for her there! BG Xx
Wow! That is quite a week! And you live to blog about it. I love cows.
what an eventful week! good luck with the pottery prize. I love the chook!
A lot of your photos haven’t loaded for me, I’ll see them tomorrow. I love the dish in the first picture and the finch photos are stunning.
Cheeky cows!
Great pictures, Kim. The chook just glows, Harry looks handsome, and I love the cows in the mist series. I hope you have a calmer few weeks. Best wishes in the pottery contest. You would get my vote!
We have that issue with cattle on our farm in tropical North Queensland. One of us usually mows the grass on our property at least once a week so cattle certainly don’t help at all!
From what I hear, seems like Amy’s doing not quite as badly with as anticipated (with the gluten challenge, anyway, from what I hear from Veronica)?
All your photos have loaded for me now. That cow just above Harry looks like a white cow wearing a black shawl against the cold.
Brown hens are my favourite, they look so much friendlier to me than the white ones.
I LOVE your stripey socks, and your shoes too for that matter. Where did you get them? The shoes I mean. They look extremely comfortable.
Happy socks – what a lovely idea. Hope you have a better week 🙂
Despite your week that was, you manage to make me chuckle. I hope you now feel a little less battered. Magical and funny photos, and yes, the shells are quite beautiful. Shells are an object of comfort to me. You also shape objects that are more confronting. It’s impossible not to respond to your work, Kim.
Your finch pictures are lovely. I feed aphid-infested plants to our chickens, but wish I had some wild birds to take care of the problem.