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Ducks versus cats versus chicken

8 March 2020
animals, cats, ducks, rescue, silver

Funny to see the cat getting quite intimidated by the arrival of the ducks behind her and starting to freak and run away when one of the ducks started picking the cat’s tail.

Animals moving (themselves) around

9 November 2019
abigail, animals, grass, horses, naughty, rusty

Most animals stick to electric fences – our alpacas do not.

Merry Christmas

25 December 2018
animals, christmas, flooding, kaipara, rain, valley, water

Merry Christmas to everyone. Its been pretty wet all of yesterday and this morning the valley greets us with a bit of ponding water.

Spring day out

16 September 2018
animals, kau, mud, valley, water, weather

Spring is in the air. The weather is getting warmer, so I did my walk down into the valley to check the water supply to the troughs, checked all fences and gates.

Big fat bird

1 September 2018
animals, birds, family, forest, kereru, nature, school, tree

When I was taking my little girl across the road to the school bus stop, I spotted a big fat bird in the tree that was watching me: A Kererū.

Random images of farm beauty

13 March 2018
animals, detail, farm, fencing, water

A walk down the hill and saying hello to all the animals can be a really healthy exercise and you can discover the odd cool things when you look at details: fence wire knots

Finally rain!

20 December 2017
animals, christmas, garden, grass, land, rain, sea, water, weather

This year, the nice, hot weather started already mid November and by now, we had no rain for 5 weeks and all local water carriers are booked out until end of January. Finally we had some rain and that filled the tank almost up again so we can enjoy the festive season finally without worrying.

Busy weekend

9 April 2017
animals, dry, food, grass, land, rain, rusty, shady, shelter, sun, sunset, waimauku, winter

After the rainy weekend we got busy outside again. Saturday we weeded the paddock and sowed new grass plus added fertiliser. Sunday we got the concrete mixer out and got builders mix and cement from Waimauku Landscape supplies to pour concrete into the animal shelter.

A day outside – fencing and cuddling cows

6 November 2016
animals, cuddling, fencing, sun, weather

Spring is back again and so is the beautiful weather and sunshine.

Mower Bots are on the loose

11 October 2016
animals, grass, house, weather

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 save me time and petrol.

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