News – Page 5 – Pukeatua Farmstay

Time to head out before the bad weather

18 August 2020
drainage, farm, fencing, fire, firewood, grass, house, rain, scenery, sky, sun, valley, weather

Time to head into the valley and do some paddock maintenance. Checking fences and gates, continued to dig a drainage trench, checked up on the alpacas and moos, mowed some swamp grass and sprayed some other areas of swap grass. Chopped some firewood, loaded up the trainer and brought it back up to the house to keep us warm over the next couple of days.

A break from the rainy weather

21 July 2020
animals, family, farm, fencing, kids, land, rain, scenery, valley, water, weather, winter

First day in a long time without rainy weather, so we went down into the valley for fixing things, moving things and play things.

A foggy morning Hyperlapse

2 July 2020
building, fog, land, sunrise, valley, winter

Crisp winter mornings are fun to watch with the fog and the clouds moving, building up and disappearing again.

Flood water fun

28 June 2020
event, flooding, kids, valley, water, winter

The first flood this winter has arrived. Usually, we have 2 or more of those events, but this year is the first time we have been having some fun in it. After all, why not?

Winter is officially here

2 June 2020
detail, family, farm, land, mud, night, rain, tree, weather, winter

Rain and mild temperatures have led winter to the land. The trees have dropped their leaves and the moss started to grow. Browns and greens and the dominating colours, the red and yellows have almost gone.

The rain that’s to end the drought

24 May 2020
animals, dry, grass, kaipara, land, rain, shelter, valley, water

Here’s the rain that is supposedly to end the drought.

Autumn has its beauties too

23 May 2020
animals, building, dry, ducks, feed, flowers, fog, garden, grass, mud, nature, night, rain, rescue, shelter, tree, valley, water, winter

Another summer has gone by and autumn came, dry and cold.

The great Pukeatua Easter Egg hunt

12 April 2020
accident, dry, eggs, family, farm, kids, sun

Mr bunny was terribly sorry this year, he had an accident and lost all of his eggs on the way through a hole in his bag. So all the lovely easter eggs are now spread across most of the farm, ~10 acres.

Day 11 of COVID-19 lockdown

5 April 2020
birds, naughty

Found some Rosellas and Mr Naughty was over at the neighbour’s and was thinking what to do with the pheasants but decided quickly to let them be and carry on.

Lockdown is starting

26 March 2020
sun, sunset

A memorable sunset // NZ commences a few weeks of ‘lockdown’ in attempt to flatten the curve to fight Coronavirus.

A common visitor

13 March 2020
detail, garden, insect

I love details, hence macro photography is always a cool thing for me. Here’s a picture of one of our common visitors, a praying mantis. While common, I still find them fascinating little critters.

The 2020 newcomers

4 March 2020
abigail, agnes, angela, farm, horses, night, rain, shelter

It’s been a long time we had some cute calfies arriving here. Yesterday was the day 3x cute new calfies arriving. They walked down the driveway into the shelter and are now happily mixing and mingling with the horses.

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