Tag: Tree

Big fat bird

1 September 2018
Animal, Bird, Family, Forest, Kereru, La, Land, Nature, School, Tree

When I was taking my little girl across the road to the school bus stop, I spotted a big fat bird in the tree that was watching me: A Kererū.

After the storm: Back online

14 April 2018
Duck, Event, Family, Fire, Food, Friend, 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, Land, 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.

Treework

29 August 2016
Christmas, Event, Fire, Firewood, Land, Mud, Shelter, Tree, Weather, Winter

The winter storms and the wet weather was not too good for some of our already damaged pine tress along the middle paddock fence line. So we untied the fence wires and chopped the most damaged and dangerous trees down. All trees fell exactly between the fence posts and we simply tied the wires back