Easy Banana Bread & Kindness Wednesday 🕊️

 

Hello.

Wednesday.

I love Wednesday.

It is my day to stay in and attend to the things 

that I love most; my family, friends, pets and home.

Today is my Kindness day.

It is the day that I write out cards and send small

items to people who may need a bit of a pick me up.

Or just to people I have not been able to be with as much as I wish.

I also send out cards to the elderly home up the street.

Today I will pray for those on my prayer list.

I will remember my mom and my relatives who

did so much for me to be here right now.

I will box up items no longer useful to me

and donate them as I work my way through the house.

My gardens are slowly filling out. Sunshine, dirt, plants and chickens... that is a great morning!

Kindness day is something I created for myself to 

keep me accountable. It is one thing to say you do things

but quite another to actually do them.

This passage from this book on workplace accountability is spot on.

Also this quote, * You are what you repeatedly do*

if you say that you are an early riser then hit the snooze 3 times....maybe not.

If you say that you are kind but act the opposite in areas of your life then...

maybe not.

So what makes Wednesday a good day for you?

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I hate to be constantly posting these things.

It seems like there has been so much loss and this one strikes me HARD.

Apple Cider passed away this weekend.

I am heartbroken.

Though to be fair, I really had no idea how old he was

or what he had been through before I made him part of our chicken

family. 

My heart believes that he may have overheated from

chasing the girls around all day.

Bantam Silkies are fragile.

But to be thorough I have been advising online poultry vets

for help in making sure that is was not anything else.

We have ruled out illness & predators - naturally.

But toxins can also be found in bits of feed in the sand.

So I super cleaned the old coop and am working on the 

large two sided coop this week...digging out the sand and replacing 

it with washed new sand.

It was brought to my attention that the sudden loss of so many

in such a short period could be a fluke but it could also be 

nefarious in nature. 

So we have tightly secured the area.

( Gosh, I would hate to believe anyone would intentionally harm them)

Still, I am sore with loss.

Enough please.

In happier news, the babies are getting bigger.

They are trying to roost on the waterers .

A good sign they are due to leave their brooder.

They will be in the old coop before you know it!

Here they are outside while I cleaned their brooder.

I flipped the pen over and placed them in the grass.

Now that is all they want to do!

Lucy the Goosie's babies are getting so big as well!

It has been a joy watching them grow every day.

In addition to Kindness day, I will be baking this, my favorite

banana bread recipe. I have a few overripe ones that need a purpose.

I use Cup 4 Cup GF flour and sometimes add organic cacao chips.

I have decided that doing this is way better for myself and those I love

than fighting unseen battles.

May you all enjoy this day.

Much love,

Raven

xoxo