Taking Tea ~ Happy PPF !

Hello!

My goodness, it's Friday again! 

Here's my entry in this week's Paint Party Friday - where the happiest of artists gather, and everyone's welcome:

"Taking Tea" Acrylic and Watercolour on Card Stock

It was one of those paintings that I'd put aside... not sent to the person for whom it was originally intended but,  as life would have it, it became the perfect little acceptance card for an invitation to tea a year or so after it was exiled to the cupboard! 

Click on this PPF Button below and you'll be taken to see a lovely gathering of gorgeous art:

Chook Report

Hello!

Here's a special chook report on our girls.

While sharing comments with Debbie when she visited my last post, I'd mentioned our chooks were now in moult and were having a little break from egg laying.

They were all a bit unco-operative when I produced the camera, but I soon sweet-talked them into it.

This is how they're looking:

This hen earnt herself, when a youngster, the rather unfortunate name of "Stupid" but, turns out, she's pretty smart in many ways.
Anyway, as you can see, she's lost many feathers and looks patchy.

 Here's a close up of the new pin feathers that are starting to re-grow on her:

Those little brown nubby ends to the left of the photo are the fluffy starts to new feathers.

This is Alice.
Alice is not happy!
But once her beautiful plumage re-grows, she'll be happy again.

They wouldn't co-operate for photos, everyone went every which way.
Alice (still sulking) continued to mooch against the gate!

We have two hens who look exactly the same, only their personalities differed.  So, they were named Good Brenda and Bad Brenda.
Fortunately, their combs are each slightly different now that they've matured, so that helps in identification.
This is Good Brenda and her new paler feather patterns are emerging as she starts to come out of her moult.

"Whose breast feathers are these" I'm asking.
L to R Bad Brenda, Chookie (aka Henny Penny) and Good Brenda

Well, that's the current situation.  Thanks very much for your interest Debbie and I hope you enjoyed our chookyard news :D)