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Winter is officially here

2 June 2020
detail, family, farm, land, mud, night, rain, tree, weather, winter

Rain and mild temperatures have led winter to the land. The trees have dropped their leaves and the moss started to grow. Browns and greens and the dominating colours, the red and yellows have almost gone.

The rain that’s to end the drought

24 May 2020
animals, dry, grass, kaipara, land, rain, shelter, valley, water

Here’s the rain that is supposedly to end the drought.

Quiet times

12 May 2020
animals, baking, dry, ducklings, ducks, eggs, family, farm, feed, food, forest, grass, land, mushrooms, people, rain, rusty, sea, shady, sun, sunrise, tree, valley, water, weather

While we had no guests, have not been out to see any people and had no coffee other than the home made one due to COVID-19 lockdown level 4 and 3, we fixed a few things around the farm, moved animals around the paddocks and got more feed in.

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.

Drylands

11 February 2020
christmas, dry, farm, land, rain, weather

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 at all.

Finally some rain?

29 January 2020
farm, land, rain, water

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.

A visit to the cow

27 January 2020
abigail, farm, grass, kids, land, rain

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

Summer on its way and so nice outside

3 November 2019
bbq, christmas, farm, flowers, food, garden, grass, land, night, sea, sun, sunrise, weather

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

Pretty visitors at times

31 October 2019
birds, land

Sometimes we have pretty little visitors, like those rosellas, parakeets or phesants. Today some rosellas flew by and landed on the deck balustrade.

Even rain can be beautiful

21 October 2019
flooding, land, rain, sun, valley, weather

Over the last couple of weeks we had quite a mix of weather – typical spring. From lovely warm and sunny days where you easily get sunburned to torrential rain that flooded the valley.

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.

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