Tidy up time

10 October 2019
digger, drainage, dry, firewood, kids, rain, tree

Spring has just sprung and it’s getting time for tidy ups – spring time cleaning but outside.

Jolan is helping with chopping that big branch of a tree that fell down over a year ago – all nice and dry now for the wood burner.

timber fence post with little trench and wire sticking out of the ground — Wiring up the fences

Last year we started electrifying pretty much all paddocks, so now we have to dig in the cables to bridge the gates. A good job while the ground is still soft and getting pretty much impossible once the lovely clay ground dries up.

In autumn we dug out the drainage trenches and parts of the pond, now is a good time to dig that final meter of trench next to the bridge that we could not access any more with the digger and that was too soggy around for foot access. Now that the drainage worked, the final cut can be made.

Soggy grass with a spade in the foreground and a trench with running water just behind in front of a tiumber bridge acoss a water channel.

Pinecones – Great Firestarters for Winter

18 August 2023
dry, farm, fire, firewood, winter

With winter just around the corner your home will start to feel colder. We have some dry excellent quality pinecones for sale.

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.

Diggery-do: digging up the farm

2 March 2022
background, box, content, digger, drainage, dry, farm, fire, firewood, forest, rain, shelter, water

It’s the time of the year again. It’s very dry, the soggy paddocks have dried up and it’s the perfect time to dig out all the drains.

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.