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The last few months were pretty dry with no rainfall other than a few drops that pretty much instantly evaporated upon hitting the ground. I think the last rain was some time before Christmas last year which would make it three months with no rain…

It’s been a long time without any rain and pretty dry. Not sure how much this will be but anything is better than nothing.

We did a roundtrip down the hill for pine cone collecting, fence fixing, alpaca seeing and moo encounter.

A weekend of alpaca shearing, vet attendance, fixing fences and water troughs.

Today was a sad day at Pukeatua Farmstay. We had to say goodbye to Peekie, our female Buff Orpington Duck. She was all well last night and this morning we found her in a corner of the duck run. She must have died overnight.

Spring soon will turn into summer and the weather during the day is already so awesome.

The weather has not been too amazing over the last couple of weeks.

Not that we lost winter in a hole, but the valley got so soggy over the years that we used the still good autumn weather to dig drainage in preparation for the wet winter time.

We made use of the long weekend – yes, it’s Auckland Anniversary weekend – and did some farm maintenance.

Silver gave birth to 3 beautiful kittens very early on Saturday morning, so yesterday was a very slow day here on our little farm after a very short night with Ms Silver’s new arrivals.

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

Every year our daughter’s school holds an agricultural day, where the children have to raise a farm animal and show it at school. Jolan has created a video diary about her calf Agnes. I think she’s done an awesome job with her idea, have a…