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Spring time – so beautiful

15 November 2020
birds, ducklings, ducks, flowers, fog, garden, grass, tree, tui, valley, water, weather

Nothing much really has happened over the last few weeks and hence our updates have been rather sparse. One thing did happen however: Think it really turned spring.

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.

A break from the rainy weather

21 July 2020
animals, family, farm, fencing, kids, land, rain, scenery, valley, water, weather, winter

First day in a long time without rainy weather, so we went down into the valley for fixing things, moving things and play things.

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.

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.

Day 12 of COVID-19 lockdown: Keeping busy

6 April 2020
fire, firewood, forest, rain, weather, winter

Over the last weekend we had a delivery of Macrocarpa firewood and also got a lot of old pine out of our forest, all piled up ready to be split.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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