Rasita My Family, My Animals, My Food

Ok, so not everything happened today, but today I am blogging about it.

Today has been a good day.

Firstly I will start off by telling you about last Friday.

Last Friday we tested the gas chamber. You can see the ingredients there to the left and the chambers to the right.

The gas chambers were for the baby mice. 7 baby mice now rest peacefully in my freezer. It was a quick and sudden death and was all over in seconds. However, they did need a quick bath after the experience due to the light shower of vinegar.

Do you know what happens when you put bi-carb into vinegar? Apart from lots of carbon dioxide you get lots of bubbles, almost like an explosion, and if the container is not big enough to house it, then you get vinegar escaping through the tube. I just hope the mice are still palatable for the snakes.

[img_assist|nid=1389|title=|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=200|height=150] [img_assist|nid=1388|title=|desc=|link=node|align=right|width=200|height=150]E6, now E7, had her birthday today. We had a rather quiet affair with one friend of hers over. Two of the friends elder sisters stayed as well.
The girls (all 7 of them) have had fun so far. They are beading, dancing, playing statues and just generally having fun.
It was nice to have a small affair and not do the whole big party thing. E7 has had fun and a good day so far, so it is all good!

hubby set this up for me today – he is so wonderful!

here is a picture he took oh an eagle today while he gave me girl time out with my friends and took the kids to the park – he is so wonderful – did I say that already?

do you think he wrote this or me?

[img_assist|nid=1352|title=|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=200|height=150]M12, E6 & I, with the added input of hubby, put together a guinea pig 'nursery' today.
It isn't overly large but should be adequate enough for M12's guinea pig when she has her pups. It has a base on it so it can be inside for the cool nights we are currently having.
It took us just over 2 hours to put this together and I only forgot to countersink the holes before putting in the screws. When I remembered I couldn't find the right bit for the drill anyhow.
It will do for a time and eventually I will put these refreshed skills into use and make myself some type of reptile cage, hatchy rack, etc. I have a year to plan, so it is all good!
Maybe I could make myself some shelving for all of my materials, neaten it up a bit.
Lots of ideas forming at the moment, but I won't let it take over what projects I currently have on the go (my sister's hooded blouse, art classes, bread making, teaching the kids, etc etc)

[img_assist|nid=1348|title=|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=150|height=200] E6 did her second modelling stint today. She modelled a flower girl dress in the fashion parade that my mum's shop was in. http://maree-jeandesigns.com/

She had been so excited about doing it and had constantly asked me if it was time to leave or not this morning.
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Afterwards the kids had a bit of fun with the free farm animals petting zoo and bouncy castle outside. We must have chosen the perfect time as there were no crowds.

While at the Bridal Expo we met up with an ex-babysitter of ours. Her sister is getting married.