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Today was Waimauku School AG(ricultural) day. For those cityslickers who do not know what AG day is, it is a school day where all school children have the opportunity to showcase their hand-reared calf, lamb or chicken along with a variety of other categories for those unable to…

Mr. Shady is happy in the new grass strip. Just two weeks ago the alpacas have been in there and kept it nice and short so he does not get overexcited. After all that rain, the ground is getting better and the grass has been…

Good weather today to change the animals around. The grass at the upper paddock under the house has grown long so I moved the electric fence around and decided to let the alpacas have a stroll and mow some grass around the driveway – will…

Our new calfies have arrived last Sunday. So cute they are. They have not picked the best weather – it has been raining for a few days and all is soaking wet. I remember last year was beautiful and they were enjoying fresh spring grass.…

Gave the grubby pony a good groom after all the rain. He thoroughly enjoyed it and appears to indicate Summer’s here 😉 Shady was also really interested in the camera…

This is the view from the guest lounge tonight. I had to share this. What a beautiful spring day we had today. Picked up old posts that we will turn into garden planter walls and landscape features then moved the alpacas around the paddocks and…

The winter storms and the wet weather was not too good for some of our already damaged pine tress along the middle paddock fence line. So we untied the fence wires and chopped the most damaged and dangerous trees down. All trees fell exactly between…

Some closeups of our ex battery hens. It took them a few months to grow all their feathers back but now they are happy as Larry. They still believe they are pets and they love to come in and say hello – or rather eat…

Today we separated the cows and the alpacas. The mowerbots (alpacas) are now on our upper paddock to get the grass under control. Look how high it has grown. The cows remain back in the other paddock and we have a new family member in…

I love the seasons and their distinctive differences. Autumn with its colours and now winter with their crisp, cold and blue mornings. I went down the valley this morning to feed the cows and alpacas. We feed they hay to warm them up and they…

This is a picture I have just taken from the deck just after a big downpour. Still raining but what a scenery. Shows that the landscape is beautiful even in bad weather, but then, what is bad…

We could not have asked for a better and more beautiful night for our May bonfire. We invited some friends for Walpurgis night, the last night in April.