Here are the rest of our pictures from December! One Sunday afternoon, Gayle took the girls on a walk down to the river. They found a field of wildflowers.
Elijah found this interesting moth somewhere.
James has been working diligently on his sleepout. Here was the first of three coats of paint to go on. His little sisters were delighted to help!
Little Miss took this picture to illustrate a story she wrote about her chores, which include feeding a bottle to the calf.
After our budgie died in July or August, the cockatiel got very depressed. We finally got him a friend, hoping to cheer him up, but it was too late and he died a few days later. So, we got another budgie to keep the new one company, and we have two birds again! The blue one is a very young male. Some friends had a pair and hatched this one; we got it when it was old enough to leave them. The green one is a female. They get along very well. We named the blue one Reepicheep and the green one Jewel, since Esther had just finished reading the Chronicles of Narnia aloud.
The hollyhocks are blooming, so many dolls get made!
One afternoon I walked down the hill to have a look at the chickens, and took this picture up the valley from there.
Daddy was taking a nap, and when Miss Joy noticed the cat sleeping with him, she joined them.
It rained on Christmas Day. A lot of the day was spent playing games, but for awhile some of the fellows worked on denailing some timber that James had salvaged.
As always, we enjoyed seeing the tuis and bellbirds drinking nectar from the flax blossoms.
The big project during the Christmas holidays was building a new garage at Simon’s house to replace the one they tore down over a year ago when it threatened to fall down.
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