Beautiful weather and no rain in sight

6 February 2019
Dry, Family, Friend, House, Land, Rain, Valley, Water, Weather

The last bit of rain has been some time ago and the weather forecast shows no rain for the next two weeks. Knowing the weather in and around Auckland, this may change but does not really look like it.

The water tank level is getting low so we have ordered new spring water for Monday next week. Guess it will arrive just in time before we may run dry with the extended family in the house and some friends staying too.

For our guests it means beautiful weather to enjoy. Have a look at all the activities one can do.

We just celebrated our daughter’s 10th birthday and came back from some laser tag games in Glenfield.

Wasp and Hornet traps

5 November 2025
Activity, Animal, Building, House, News, Summer, trap

We typically put a waap trap up around the house in summer to keep the number of wasps at bay. This year, they discovered a queen yellow legged hornet in the early stages of building a nest in Glenfield on the North Shore in October, while two males were spotted earlier in the year in Grafton and Albany. It is the first time a Queen has been found in Aotearoa.

Spring has arrived – with its usual mixed bag weather.

3 November 2025
Egg, Flowers, Garden, Land, Sun

“If you don’t like the weather, just wait 5 minutes.” Spring came with beautiful warm and sunny days, storm, hail, rain and sunshine in between. It was cold and a few hours later warm again and vice versa.

Winter done and dusted

1 September 2025
Alpaca, Animal, Building, Duck, Fire, Fog, Frost, Land, Landscape, Mammal, Night, Rain, Weather, Winter

There was nothing extraordinary to write about this winter, really. It’s not been too wet and not too dry, neither too cold or too warm. We had a few frosty nights and a few pretty rainy days but all in all it was reasonably warm and okay from a mud perspective.