A poem

A Mother's Life-Work

My work at home lies with the olive branches

Thou'st planted there,

To train them meekly for the heavenly garden

Needs all my care.

I may not in the woods and on the mountains

Seek Thy lost sheep;

At home a little flock of tender lambkins

'Tis mine to keep.

Thou givest to thy servants each his life-work;

No trumpet tone

Will tell the nations in triumphant pealing

How mine was done.

But 'twill be much, if, when the task is ended,

 Through grace from Thee,

 I give Thee back, undimmed, the radiant jewels

Thou gavest me.

Anonymous 

To do...

This is my 'to do' for this week. I have found that writing a list like this and keeping to it to be the only way I get the extra jobs done. It's just so warm and sunny outside...

@ Dust and wipe bedroom fans
@ Cut down trees and prepare hole for pond
@ Plant veggies (lettuce, toms., beans, courgettes, onions)
@ Write to cousin J. in England
@ Write to little friend J. in Rumania
@ Give around A & D's thank you cards
@ Clean and sort kitchen dresser
@ Prepare English exam for Wednesday group
@ Wash Toryn
@ Take purple carpet to dry cleaners
@ Pick up jeans from shop in town
@ Start sewing bean bags for fun in the summer

Another couple of wriggley photos!

I'm afraid that this is all I have time for these days. What with extra English lessons and the exams which inevitably follow, the garden, the summer clothes to dig out for everyone, normal housework and deep cleaning, weddings to attend, people to fetch from the airport, barbecues, suitcases to make up, shopping, visits to the city, little girls to look after, friends to visit, bla bla bla...

I took this photo because I liked the way the silkworms were over the stem. They are so big, I can't believe they were just a couple of millimetres long just six weeks ago! Here's Humperdink with a two euro coin for scale:

I suppose that within the next few days they will start making cocoons.

Hope you all have a great weekend.

Wrigglies!

Just thought you would like to see once more, how much my baby Wrigglies have grown! There are twenty-two in the end. One was 'mislaid' whilst changing the leaves a couple of weeks ago!

Quote for the week...

O.K. so I admit to being a minion fan. They're so tremendously cute.

Here's a minion quote which I like.

Well, I'm not going to argue with that. It's absolutely true.

Yet another wriggley update!

I'm terribly sorry but this will never cease to fascinate me. Look how they have grown in just a few days. Humperdink is already a centimetre long!

Here is a photo of a hatching wriggley (right in the middle of the 'web'):

I now have a total of eighteen.

Wriggley update

There are now 12 wrigglies with an average of two hatching just about every night. Here you can see clearly who Humperdink and Kori are.