Painting and Paddocks

It's Saturday and the beginning of a welcome weekend after yet another busy week.  They just keep on coming this time of the year, don't they!

Lets see. The deck posts, chairs and downpipes have been given their second and final coat of paint. 

It was much harder work than the first coat. I don't quite know why, especially as Mr Potts, the emu, wasn't trying to help me paint this time.  (Show Mr Potts a paint brush and suddenly he won't leave me alone.  Ditto spray painting.  Ditto power tools.  'Have. Craving. Must. Investigate' ). 

I'll have to capture his obsession on video one day....

It wasn't until I had nearly finished painting and commented to my daughter that Mr Potts had not been creating his usual brand of havoc that the penny dropped.  'He's being lulled to sleep by the Christmas music!', she told me.

And there, under a tree a few metres away, was Mr Potts, happily tucked up with eyes half closed, peaceful and snoozy, swaying gently in time to the beat of Christmas tunes coming from my ipod deck.

What can I say? This emu truly belongs on Jingle Bells Farm : )

So.  This week:
Deck painted?  Check.
Cast iron chairs and table spray painted? Check.
5 new chicks hatched in the incubator? Check.
Christmas decorations pulled out from storage and waiting to be tackled?  Check.
Schooling done? Check.
Catch up with a bunch of schooling friends? Check.
Supplies ordered and delivered for today's project to set up the horse Paddock Paradise?  Well.....still waiting on the replacement energisers and electric braid to arrive, but the posts are going in today, the insulators, earthing rods and all else will be done and the moment the braid arrives I'll have it up and running. 

Last on my list of things to get done this weekend is tearing down the poultry run and putting up a new area for the ducks and geese to bed at night. 

Wish me luck!