New babies in the house.

Before we shifted down here, Donna said 'I want two Kune Kune's'. Lyall wanted three cows and me, a few chickens (and I keep suggesting a horse or two wouldn't go amiss LOL). So today we toddled off and saw these cuties...

and in a few weeks we'll be picking two of them up. Donna wanted two boys and as there were only two boys in the litter, then the decision on which ones to choose was kind of made for her. Nope they won't ever be bacon or roast - they'll live a life of luxury as pets here at our mad house. Kune kune's are similar to dogs - relatively easy to train, (eg will sit on command etc and can be toilet trained easily apparently).

A few weeks ago I put six fertile eggs under my one broody hen. She broke two in the first couple of days. She stood on another one on day 19 (they hatch on day 21 of incubation) and so that was then dead. One hatched out on day 21 and is a happy, healthy, gorgeous wee soul. I left the last two eggs in with her till today when I decided nothing more was going to happen, and so I broke them open, to find that while brought as fertile eggs, they turned out not to be. Hmmm not such a great track record lol.

Am now keeping my fingers crossed that she turns out to be a girl (won't know until she's about five months old).


Have been busy scrapping. Here's my take on the double layout sketch over at Scrappin Patch. Not sure how many years it's been since I last did a double!

This one was for Scrapbox - you had to use more than twelve buttons. Unfortunately I missed the deadline, but heck, it's another layout done.

I have another on the go for SP and one which I've sent into the NZ Paperchase blog, so can't put that on here till the end of the month.

Now speaking of scrapbooking. I've booked for Scrappin Patch's retreat in March next year. Anybody else going?

Got my hubby home for a while now. He had a torn muscle in his shoulder, and on Thursday spent the day/night in hospital having it repaired. He's now got to keep still and watch lots of DVD's till it heals. Nice to be on school holidays with him. If he turns out not to be a good patient, I might be glad to be back at work lol.

Have a great week.