I wrote last time that we just started with Jarrah’s “school.” It has been 10 days now and she has finished her first workbook. Every day she is pleading “can I i pleeeeaaaase do school.” Every day. Even on days off! Quite a different attitude to before. She is so happy learning her letters and the hunger pains of the mornings have pretty much stopped as she is busy! So now she knows her f, k, m, r, b, t and just started on p. She still isn’t totally confident in them but the interest is there and that is what I need!
We went yesterday to the local bakery. ADRA has a project with Sanitarium helping to set up fresh noodle makers and a bread maker, both using fortified flour. The Sanitarium guy was visiting the bakery to give them ideas for expanding their product line. He taught them how to make pizza. And it was really good pizza. I hope we can order that in the future. We came home with some buns, some fresh spaghetti noodles (I have run out of dried spaghetti at the moment) and tummies full of pizza! Not bad for Rovieng eh?
The markets have been full of fresh veges at the moment. I always love it when I see ladies sitting on the ground with basins full of fresh stuff. Lately we have been getting in fresh cauliflowers. They are so lovely and fresh (sometimes with a couple of worms – live worms are good actually since it means that there hasn’t been so much pesticide used on the vegetable. They are really tasty. Jarrah has been complaining because I have been putting them in everything that she is not used to seeing it in. I’m convinced I need to keep giving her different stuff to eat, despite her complaints!
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| Fresh Cauliflowers ready for cooking |
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| Pretty Lemongrass - had to take a picture since they look so cool |
Our baby peacock success was short lived. The first nest of 4 eggs had 3 babies hatch successfully. We put them in our holding pen where the deer are not supposed to be able to get to them (our deer are a rare carnivorous kind!) Well the chicken mother found her way out of the pen and of course the babies followed her. After lunch on Day 1, we only had 1 baby left. He is thriving now, in a beefed up pen. That first batch also had another egg that had not yet hatched. Ben thought it was rotten so he cracked it. It wasn’t rotten. It had just been put in the nest a few days later than the first. Sad. The second nest of eggs doesn’t seem to want to hatch. There is one very tame chicken sitting on 6 eggs, 2 eggs were supposed to hatch last Friday and none did. Two were supposed to hatch today and there is no sign of any movement. And maybe 2 more next week. The poor chicken will be sitting on them for a very long time if they don’t hatch today. The peahen is still laying fertile eggs and we have a chicken who has been sitting on eggs in my office, so we have added 2 peacock eggs to her own 3 eggs. Hopefully these will work.
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| This is the first one who hatched. Not sure if he is the one that survived or not. |
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| Adored |
You may notice that a significant number of photos that Jarrah is in has her in no clothes. Sorry about this. The temperatures each day average about 35 deg C (maybe 100 deg F). And with the high humidity it is pretty hot. So I don’t make her wear clothes. It also makes my life easier with less clothes to wash. Amelie begrudgingly puts clothes on (as do I!)
It is Friday. Need to tidy the house again. Need to get started on school again. Should be doing some work work! Happy Sabbath.
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