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<![CDATA[Katya Gunn - Home Blog]]>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:36:36 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[Hermit Chicken]]>Mon, 21 Oct 2013 07:05:35 GMThttp://www.lucellan.com/home-blog/hermit-chickenSo how do you tell if you have a missing laydee or a hiding chicken with maternal intentions??
Well, a few things help. Lack of millions of feathers/a body are very good signs... Fewer eggs happen when someone is broody....
But the reduction of visible flock from 7 to 6 means something is Very up. Fleeting scurrying shadows in background are means for hope.

And the appearance of egg sized poos means Someone is sitting on a nest; and only leaving it for the necessaries every few days.

In this case it is a very determined Aphrodite; on very right of this pic during a most rare break from her pointless vigil. We found her on a pile of 14 eggs and removed them; we don't know whether the new nest has Any. Regardless, there are no boy chickees round here, so it's just not a starter honey. L to R in this pic: Frankie, Seuss, Frieda and Aphrodite. Eating russian kale out of pic are Roadrunner, Benjy and Franco.

I hope to have a flock of 7 barren food producing pets again soon; I just feel mean when they are trying to have babies and I'm not turning the town upside down for some fertile eggs for them to incubate. Lots of apologetic treats coming; chickweed, kale, slugs, tomatoes, mealworms, spaghetti, yoghurt.

]]><![CDATA[Sprung]]>Mon, 21 Oct 2013 06:44:57 GMThttp://www.lucellan.com/home-blog/sprung

Why have I been so slack with updates?
I've been SICK!
The fluid in which my brain is meant to be happily swimming leaks out down my spine somewhere. Result is brain hurts, body wants to be horizontal, self feels utterly exhausted and frustrated in similar measures.....
Best chance to fix is to inject blood around spine in hope it will find and plug holes - also raise low fluid pressure a bit...
So I'm in hospital having had another of these 'blood patches'. They hurt a bit, but the worst bit is actually after when I have to lie flat for a week - might sound enticing, but quickly becomes achey and un-fun.
Have now escaped home from horstipal so a few pics coming...

Sidebar; if you have read earlier posts you will know about death of darling dog Bess a few months ago. A wonderful friend gave me black tulip bulbs at the time - so now I have a divine bunch of Bessie memorial flowers to enjoy.

Blood patching is Not an operation; is a Sterile Procedure - hence the masks; or I could claim they are to protect privacy if confronted! My unnecessary privacy is amply provided by large sterile drape centre stage.

As it happens I most wistfully imagine darling Sajou on my lap; if only...

]]><![CDATA[Spring.....]]>Wed, 21 Aug 2013 09:57:41 GMThttp://www.lucellan.com/home-blog/springAs a perennial horror show, I often find myself feeling somewhat lacklustre; however spring is a wondrous truth that must be acknowledged even so - so here is my lacklustre tribute to the first signs of spring

Some of the laydees on their afternoon walk around the garden

Proof they are pets with benefits! Spring has arrived in the egg production department; hurrah!

Took this a few days ago; is now a mass of flowers....

Spring is sprunging everywhere!

Hap-play doggies in the front paddock

Sunshine, puppy and wine - aaah!

New life....

Introducing Sajou; my baby girl :-) (It's yoghurt)

Spring means love, and this young man has Uncle She in deep. Introducing Noah.

Seneca has a number of choices; but this was the one he made!!

Grant and his divine new love - the divinely yellow miss minge. Please note the accesorising with purple kilt and beribboned purple floral vinyl waistcoat

]]><![CDATA[Best Beautiful Bess]]>Mon, 15 Jul 2013 09:52:37 GMThttp://www.lucellan.com/home-blog/best-beautifulbess

Day before she died peacefully

Fentanyl patch, sun and love allowing her to enjoy special dried salmon skin ‘bone’

]]><![CDATA[The second of winter; 2 June 2013]]>Sun, 02 Jun 2013 02:06:15 GMThttp://www.lucellan.com/home-blog/the-second-of-winter-2-june-2013

Last of the beans…..

…ready for a spicy Guatemalan treatment

Sunflower tubers for dinner :-)

Ready for sorting in to ‘us’ and ‘birds’…. (did someone say cider?)

Garden gnomes getting bigger; and have learnt to sweep leaves ;-)

Seneca minding the chooks (apart from Roadrunner who is behind him)

Love my lay-dees; love their work….

Frankie in front; Aphrodite in frizzled black with white tracery

The new lay-dees. Still a little shy, and haven’t yet told me their names….

Winter Cheer announces the season

Next spring’s pretty compost accelerator

Art is Everywhere

Art is Everywhere – and – Spring is coming!…..

Food for foraging wildlife

Still smelling divine even after first snow ;-) I am delighted that thorns have roses…

Winter greens cometh. Garden smelling wonderfully of coffee much to disgust of brassica-loving slugs and snails…

Broad beans for spring

Rocket flowers preparing seeds for next spring salad

Asparagus berries, and pyrethrum flowers

Last of autumn narines keeping our darling Finn company under the kowhai

Hope the ‘frost hardy’ is true. Most of my lemon bushes sulk… However, this fruit shall be plucked on a dull day to cheer me up

Brushing past pineapple sage is aromatherapy

Mahonia flowers adding sun to dull day and preparing much needed berries for birds later in winter

Is all rather maudlin just now; winter, the dead Finn, pics of dear dead Bess tearfully added, and this reminder of dear dead friends Des and Ray – which is the Head that Knows (who committed a murder). Ray and I both consign this portentous object to the outdoors…..

Still some happy colour if you look….

]]><![CDATA[An autumn day in the garden…]]>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 02:43:06 GMThttp://www.lucellan.com/home-blog/an-autumn-day-in-the-garden

Seneca asks to go through to vege garden

Sorrel, awaiting some rocket, avocado, toasted pine nuts and a drizzle of balsamic dressing – mmmm!

Blood sorrel; better looking than eating…. but so pretty!

A rosette of lettuce

Plump pears prepare for picking

Sigh; the second crop of figs that Never ripen – but oh do they tease!!

Last of the ravishing raspberries

Lay-dees in the bath; introducing MissTaken and Roadrunner

Wriggling delight!

Seuss wonders if the camera would be good eating

Benjie wonders if Frankie has found a better spot

Aphrodite choosing between bathing and scratching up the garden…

]]><![CDATA[Zane]]>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 06:30:59 GMThttp://www.lucellan.com/home-blog/zaneThis morning I received an s.o.s. message; a Bell tea bag box is urgently required in Australia for use in a tv show; Auntie K to the rescue….

Agent Iggy Pig attempts furtive acquisition of Bell Tea

Finding he is being observed, agent IP distracts the crowd with a Tea and Zane routine

Nonchalantly, agent IP waits with the cargo

Back at HQ, work begins on flattening the box

Turns out Agent IP’s mother is a tea snob; hence protective gear as box is gutted

Appropriate handling of all toxic tea is most important

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