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The animals, the rain and the fire

25 August 2020
animals, cats, cayuga, ducks, farm, feed, feeding, fire, firewood, grass, horses, house, kaipara, land, naughty, people, rain, scenery, sun, sunset, valley, weather

Who likes the weather when it’s raining and storming outside? No one – well, maybe the odd people that are happy that their grass is growing, like us humans inside. Oh, and the ducks! The ducks love it.

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.

Aerial video with Alpacas

5 July 2020
farm, house, land, shelter, valley

A video a friend made in summer two years ago. The horse shelter was still under construction at that time. The flightover shows our alpacas in the lower paddock and gives an impression of our lovely hillside spot.

Days of lockdown

19 April 2020
animals, baking, breakfast, cooking, family, farm, feed, feeding, food, grass, house, kids, land, life, rain, winter

I have lost count as to what day we are in but it does not really matter at the end of the day. Life continues not necessarily as normal but almost normal. Feels a little bit like holidays at home with a bit of working in between. Late breakfasts with more cooked stuff than normal, like GF pancakes, GF waffles, fried breakfast etc.

Day 4 of COVID-19 lockdown

29 March 2020
cooking, house, outdoor, people, rusty, shady, shelter

We have been busy on various little projects to keep us busy. From cooking to exercising, watching some movies to projects outside.

Ducks teaming up

26 November 2019
ducks, house, night, rescue, valley

A few times in a row I have now been observing them in the paddock in the morning, making their way up the hill back to the house. Down at the pond or on their way up they must have met our resident paradise ducks.

Automowers at work

25 August 2019
baby, birds, box, family, farm, grass, house, life, rescue, rusty, shady, weather

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

Digging for winter :-)

20 April 2019
building, digger, drainage, dry, event, family, farm, flooding, forest, house, kids, land, rain, valley, water, weather, winter

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.

Beautiful weather and no rain in sight

6 February 2019
dry, family, friends, house, land, rain, valley, water, weather

The last bit of rain has been some time ago and the weather forecast shows no rain for the next two weeks.

After the storm: Back online

14 April 2018
ducks, event, family, fire, food, friends, house, kau, land, life, night, people, rain, tree, water

The storm that hit us last Tuesday evening with wind speeds of more than 200km/h (Manukau Heads) left us without power and internet and only limited cell phone coverage. Power was restored yesterday afternoon, 3 days later.

What a wet summer

13 February 2018
family, flooding, house, night, rain, sun, tree, valley, water, weather

the amount of rain we had over the last few days is extraordinary – at least on a subjective level. The occasional hours of sunshine in between evaporate the water quickly, hence yesterday we had 30 deg C. with 80% relative humidity.

Hot days – Ducking down

13 January 2018
ducks, house, shady, sun

Yesterday was such a hot day that the ducks did not come out from their shady space underneath their house.

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