Day 1 of NZ COVID-19 lockdown

26 March 2020
fire, firewood, shady, sun, sunset

Day one of not going out to anywhere, not having contact with anybody outside the property in an attempt to flatten the infection curve. National state of emergency.

Since work eased down quite a bit and no guests coming for at least the next four weeks, there’s time to do some work outside.

So here are some pictures of today.

Sunset with some clouds in front of the sun, rays coming through the clouds — Sunset

Head of a horse with long white maine, looking into the camera — Sunset

Spring made space for Summer

15 December 2023
bonfire, family, farm, fire, outdoor, scenery, sun, weather

Spring came and went, Summer took over without much changing. It’s still raining every other day and the sun shines intermittently. But on the bright side that has made all the grass grow.

Pinecones – Great Firestarters for Winter

18 August 2023
dry, farm, fire, firewood, winter

With winter just around the corner your home will start to feel colder. We have some dry excellent quality pinecones for sale.

February was more exciting than needed

1 March 2023
animals, cats, cylone, farm, fire, flooding, house, land, life, mud, muriwai, people, rain, rusty, valley, weather, winter, ziggy

February was thought to finally bring summer. What it brought instead was more rain – and storm.

Winter Solstice & Matariki

26 June 2022
background, box, christmas, content, cooking, ducks, eggs, family, farm, feed, goats, horses, la, land, nature, rats, scenery, shearing, sun, sunset, trapping, twi, weather, winter

The weather has turned from somewhat wet and warm to rather wet and cold. The horses have been rugged up just like the goats. The rodent infestation has become noticeable, so we started putting up more traps on top of the traps and bait stations we already had.

Diggery-do: digging up the farm

2 March 2022
background, box, content, digger, drainage, dry, farm, fire, firewood, forest, rain, shelter, water

It’s the time of the year again. It’s very dry, the soggy paddocks have dried up and it’s the perfect time to dig out all the drains.

What happened this month? Well…

30 December 2021
animals, cats, cayuga, christmas, dinner, ducklings, family, food, friends, land, sun, sunset, weather

Lots and not so much happened. New ducklings, alpaca maintenance, Christmas, holidays and lots of animal fun.