people – Pukeatua Farmstay

February was more exciting than needed

1 March 2023
animals, cats, cylone, farm, fire, flooding, house, land, life, mud, muriwai, people, rain, rusty, valley, weather, winter, ziggy

February was thought to finally bring summer. What it brought instead was more rain – and storm.

Advent, advent

4 December 2022
christmas, event, family, forest, grass, house, kids, land, objects, outdoor, people, scenery

This year marks the first time that it was not us adults doing the wreath but our daughter herself with only very little guidance.

Summer has gone and Easter has come

24 April 2022
background, box, content, detail, eggs, event, family, farm, fog, forest, grass, kids, land, nature, outdoor, people, picnic, places, rain, scenery, sea, tree, winter

Within days, the hot summer weather had moved on and made space for moderate temperatures with rain and fog.

Happy Earth Day 2022

22 April 2022
background, bbq, box, button, content, detail, dinner, family, farm, flowers, forest, garden, house, insect, land, mushrooms, nature, outdoor, people, rain, scenery, sun, sunset, tree, valley, water

The warm and humid weather produced lovely field mushrooms to be harvested. Earlier we harvested basil, limes and potatoes.

Erwien’s return

17 November 2021
ducklings, ducks, people, places, rescue, vet

Erwien came back this years with a new bunch of ducklings and proudly presented them, just like last year. She’s such a good mummy.

Muddy days

8 October 2021
background, baking, box, cats, content, cooking, dry, family, food, life, mud, people, rain, silver, sun, sunrise, sunset, water

It’s been a few rather wet days. Some with intermittent sunshine but not enough to dry up the ground yet. The cats use the sunny breaks to go outside but other than that they seem to be in hibernation.

Flooding – groundhog day

1 September 2021
flooding, land, people, scenery, valley, water

This year was special and I had not yet seen the water that high. Kumeu and Waimauku townships flooded too and other suburbs in West Auckland. For some it was pretty bad and I feel sorry for the affected people – and animals.

Water everywhere – in the midst of winter

24 July 2021
box, cats, cooking, ducks, eggs, fog, food, garden, horses, house, people, tree, water, weather, winter

It’s been rather wet, foggy and cold in the last couple of days. The cats spent more time inside and expressing a form of cabin fever when awake but they are mostly asleep.The horses are asking for more food, the chickens are hiding in their house and the ducks – well, the ducks are in their element.

Alpaca maintenance day

3 July 2021
animals, building, christmas, farm, fencing, grass, people, shelter, walking

Saturday was the day of the bi-annual alpaca maintenance

The return of Erwien

2 October 2020
cats, ducklings, ducks, food, friends, people, places, rescue, vet

What a joy and surprise that was when a few days ago Erwien showed up with a boyfriends and a whole bunch of fluffy ducklings.

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.

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.

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