China, Chickens and Challenges

With Ian away at his race in China, our little family of girls has welcomed Bernadette to our house for this week. In between walking with Bethany to help her sleep, walking Rosie to school and joining in the Mount Beauty Primary School Walkathon, Bernadette has found plenty of time to knit Bethany a vest and a matching crocheted beanie.
In addition, we've been to pick up our newest girls - three chickens - a white one called Poppy, a darker brown whom we've called Pippa and a lighter brown named Henny Penny. They have settled nicely into their temporary accommodation while a more robust and attractive coop and pen is being constructed by yours truly.
Ian's race seems to be going well, although we have had little contact from him in far away China. Race reports are being written by his team mate Serge and can be viewed at the Adventure Junkie website.
In Ian's absence our hot water tank has rusted through and we've had no hot water for three days. After many, many phone calls we now have a nice new tank sitting in a box near the back door and a nice man coming tomorrow morning to install it. sigh. This will be a shower I will remember....