Day 61 of 365

Visiting Australia

Spent a lovely day seeing the sights of beautiful Central Queensland with my 3 lovely children and daughter-in-law.

See you tomorrow,

Raewyn

Day 60 of 365

Surprise revealed

This is the reason for my secrecy - the girls and I have traveled to Australia to surprise our son for his birthday!! Tonight we went out to tea. (And he does read my blog so I'm pleased I was sneaky!)

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Raewyn

Day 59 of 365

Secret Stuff

Does this give you a clue as to what I am up to? (Ann you were very close!)

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Raewyn

Day 58 of 365

Sneaky stuff going on....

Cant say any more than this at the moment... 

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Raewyn



Day 57 of 365

Sewing Time

A little project I am working on.
(Sewing in the living room now!)

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Raewyn

Day 56 of 365

Winter time

Lovely to see our eldest daughter today - in exchange for lovely muffins for lunch, she went home with a load of firewood!

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Raewyn

Day 55 of 365

Sewing Time

I was pleased to get to my sewing machine today - practised some freemotion quilting.

And discovered a great place to hang my quilts....now dear, about that wall.....do you really think we need it?

 See you tomorrow,

Raewyn

Day 54 of 365

Happy at work

A lovely sight next to the shop - Pansies are one of my favourite flowers.

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Raewyn

Day 53 of 365

House Guest

Nigel is going to live with us when our daughter moves away to study... he spent the evening watching the other cats and trying to stay out of their way.

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Raewyn

Day 52 of 365

Farm work

Today we got the herd in and each cow was vaccinated against Rotovirus - something that can make their calves scour (once born), and is very hard to treat. 2mls jabbed in the neck each. You can see the mess the cows made coming down the hill to the yards.

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Raewyn

Day 51 of 365

Sewing time

Our daughter is moving into our spare room for a week so I had to move my sewing machine. Luckily I can move into my old/new room as the builders wont be back this week.

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Raewyn

Day 50 of 365

Down on the farm

Hubby's current winter job is extending our pumpshed so there is room to work on the pump inside it.
Today he poured the concrete. The pumpshed is near the stream and on the edge of the bush.
(The photo shows NZ native scrubby plant Manuka).

Wow cant believe I have done 50 days already!

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Raewyn

Day 49 of 365

A wet, inside day.

Will the real pet please stand up...

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Raewyn

Day 48 of 365

Winter scenes

The 'conkers' on the London Plane tree are quite decorative.

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Raewyn

Day 47 of 365

House work

Slowly making progress - this weekend we have 4 dehumidifiers going to try and dry the area out for the
building inspector on Tuesday. Standing in my 'cave' looking towards the bedroom.

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Raewyn

Day 46 of 365

Sewing time!

Finally got my Blessings mini quilt put together!

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Raewyn

Day 45 of 365

Transformation

Definitely the coldest morning we have had here in Northland for a while. The frost was gone by 9am.

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Raewyn

Day 44 of 365

Sunset

Driving home from work this evening was very difficult with the sun in my eyes..... now it's very still and I think we are likely to get a frost tonight.

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Raewyn

Day 43 of 365

Daily Walk

My daily walk to the top of the hill.

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Raewyn



Day 42 of 365

More harvesting

I always come back from my parents' with so much fruit!
(Although the Tamarillos and Mandarin were grown by me)

Cut fruit so you can see what they look like inside.
Large green skinned with white flesh - Feijoa (Cut, scoop and eat)
Small orange skin with edible pips and red skin with red pips (all pips edible) - Tamarillo (2 varieties)(Cut,scoop and eat)
Orange fruit at back of plate - Persimmon (Peel and eat).

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Raewyn

Day 41 of 365

Digging 

Just as well Mr Piggy is a pet....

...and this isn't a cow paddock, or he would be in BIG trouble!

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Raewyn

Day 40 of 365

Home again!

The new end of the house is coming along nicely - and LOOK! - our internet satellite is connected up again!

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Raewyn

Day 39 of 365

A few days away

Driving back through Auckland city on the way home; you can see the Sky Tower I tried to photograph on Day 36.

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Raewyn

Day 38 of 365

A few days away

An impulse buy - cute but not very good as a pincushion as there isn't much padding for the pins!

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Raewyn

Day 37 of 365

A few days away

After a day in the city (window) shopping and visiting the NZ Archives building (family history) we are at my parents'. While I visit them regularly, hubby isn't able to. Here's Dad and hubby gathering the last of the feijoas.

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Raewyn

Day 36 of 365

A few days away

We are having a few days away now that the cows are dry.... this photo is of the Sky Tower
in Auckland, our tallest building. We stayed in the Sky City Motel right next to the Sky Tower.
It was raining and dark and this was the best photo I could get of it.

See you tomorrow!
Raewyn

Day 35 of 365

Daily (?) Chores

Cleaningup after the horses--- great for the garden

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Raewyn

Day 34 of 365

Winter harvest

A Silver-eye in a Fig Tree

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Raewyn

Day 33 of 365

Sewing....

Finished another of my Hop To It blocks!

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Raewyn

Day 32 of 365

Drying off

Last milking!! Each cow has one of these tubes of long acting penicillin inserted into each teat to prevent infections over the winter - makes for a very long final milking.

I will answer all your questions re the drying off process next week when our internet is reconnected!! (I am suffering withdrawls!)

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Raewyn

Day 31 of 365

Daily Chores

"Here chook, chook, chook..."

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