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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
animal, dry, grass, kaipara, land, rain, shelter, valley, water

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

Autumn has its beauties too

23 May 2020
animal, building, dry, duck, feed, flowers, fog, garden, grass, land, mud, nature, night, rain, rescue, shelter, tree, valley, water, winter

Another summer has gone by and autumn came, dry and cold.

Quiet times

12 May 2020
animal, baking, dry, duck, duckling, egg, 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
animal, 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.

The great Pukeatua Easter Egg hunt

12 April 2020
accident, dry, egg, family, farm, kids, land, sun

Mr bunny was terribly sorry this year, he had an accident and lost all of his eggs on the way through a hole in his bag. So all the lovely easter eggs are now spread across most of the farm, ~10 acres.

Day 11 of COVID-19 lockdown

5 April 2020
animal, birds, la, land, landscape, naughty

Found some Rosellas and Mr Naughty was over at the neighbour’s and was thinking what to do with the pheasants but decided quickly to let them be and carry on.

Lockdown is starting

26 March 2020
la, land, landscape, sun, sunset

A memorable sunset // NZ commences a few weeks of ‘lockdown’ in attempt to flatten the curve to fight Coronavirus.

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.