A Busy Oven.

Can't a day just disappear before you know it?! I had a slow start this morning, usual tidying up, laundry, feeding the chooks, watering some precious garlic I've been babying along since I nearly lost it in the heat. A few things that took no time at all. Then into town for 2.5 hour visit to the hairdresser. Got home well after lunch and decided to pop on the aircon so I could comfortably do some cooking. That was at 2.30pm and I've just taken the last cakes out of the oven and its 7.30pm! I'm yet to cook hubby's dinner  - he doesn't get home until 8pm.

I've really enjoyed my busy afternoon. I had a surplus of eggs - the girls have been very good - so I've made about 60 biscuits, 4 quiches and various cakes. The quiches are in the freezer ready for a busy day when I don't feel like cooking and the cakes get sliced up and popped in there too for Mark to take to work. If unexpected guests pop round for a cuppa there's always something to have without having to run to the shops.

I let the new girls out to free-range this afternoon for the first time. I was a little worried and kept half an eye on them out the kitchen windows while bashing up the bickies. Cackles and Lala are old hands and wander about our land without a problem but Henny and Penny (yes I've named them - actually Marks suggestion) took off next door and then disappeared. I just have to rattle the bucket of grain and Cackles and Lala will wander straight back to the enclosure but I didn't know how I'd get the new girls back. I shouldn't have worried. They heard me with the bucket, saw me in the enclosure and came running to the fence in next-doors yard, squarking and cackling away. They obviously couldn't get to me so I walked up the yard and they ran up the fenceline alongside until they could get under the it. Then they just followed me back to the run!!! What lovely, clever girls!

I'll post the recipe for one of our favourite cakes tomorrow. Whole orange cake. Yum!