Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Day 90 of 2020

A while since Little Girl has been on the blog.
Cant beat a photo of a nice horse :-)

See you tomorrow,
Raewyn.

Monday, March 30, 2020

Day 89 of 2020

Even the bees know they have to stay inside.....

See you tomorrow,
Raewyn.

Saturday, March 28, 2020

Day 88 of 2020


Mountain cows!!

See you tomorrow,
Raewyn.

Day 87 of 2020

A messy morning milking - each cow received a slow release Copper bullet.
They didin't appreciate being fussed with in the shed!
Related post *here*.
The above bullets are the five that were spat out, two we noticed straight away so those cows got a second one. Three will remain copper-less until next year.

See you tomorrow,
Raewyn.

Thursday, March 26, 2020

Day 86 of 2020

The dogs enjoyed a good climb this morning.

See you tomorrow,
Raewyn.

Day 85 of 2020

Showing off to Ganma!

See you tomorrow,
Raewyn.

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Day 84 of 2020

Sage saves the day!!
The two wild sheep mentioned yesterday were acquired by our son to graze his orchard.
There is no grass left so we said they may as well come to our orchard. It took a lot of cunning but son and hubby managed to get them on a trailer and into our orchard. 
They stayed there approx 5 minutes before going through the fence and ending up in the cow paddock.
A big paddock.
Anyone who has dealt with sheep knows how hard they are to shift if they don't want to.
Enter Sage, a neighbour's dog.
She won a placing at Dog Trials over the weekend.
Within minutes she had them from one end of the paddock to the other, through the gate and back into the orchard.
The fences were mended yesterday and so far, they are still in it!
It was amazing to watch such a good dog in action!

See you tomorrow,
Raewyn.

Day 83 of 2020


We need to make the orchard secure as we have a couple of wild sheep visiting.
Miss Piggy did a fabulous job of supervising!

See you tomorrow,
Raewyn.

Monday, March 23, 2020

Day 82 of 2020

A chook went missing.
She has a history of going clucky so I hoped that was what she was up to, rather than meeting an untimely end somehow.
Finally when doing some weeding one day, I found her - as I was trying to pull an overgrown climbing plant off a bush, I heard very nervous clucking from below.
Deep in the depths of my overgrown garden, I found her and the nest!
As we don't have a rooster, sitting on a clutch of eggs is a total waste of time. Some breeds go clucky very readily, as this girl does. Usually she goes into the 'naughty cage' (an old guinea pig cage) for a few days. She loses her cluckiness quite quickly and goes back to laying.

See you tomorrow,
Raewyn.

Saturday, March 21, 2020

Day 81 of 2020

A house with an arm!
Progress for ED and family.

See you tomorrow,
Raewyn.

Day 80 of 2020

You can see how it has greened up slightly with a small amount of rain - imagine what it would be like with a decent amount!!

See you tomorrow,
Raewyn.

Friday, March 20, 2020

Day 79 of 2020

While the world is in disarray, it's easy to forget there is still a serious drought on. 
Happily for us, water on the main farm is plentiful as these thirsty girls demonstrate.

See you tomorrow,
Raewyn.

Thursday, March 19, 2020

Day 78 of 2020

When you cant find the harness for the highchair don't forget to check out the bridle/halter on the bouncy horse toy.

See you tomorrow,
Raewyn.

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Day 77 of 2020

One of the joys of childhood; running up and down hills!

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Raewyn.

Day 76 of 2020

Amazing how quickly a few insects can hollow out a piece of fruit!

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Raewyn.

Monday, March 16, 2020

Day 75 of 2020

Babysitting of a different kind today with wee Steve here for a visit.
He's actually watching out for the tractor, not pining over Mum and Dad!

See you tomorrow,
Raewyn.

Sunday, March 15, 2020

Day 74 of 2020

It's time for a shift and the cows know it!
They're all gathered at the bottom of the paddock ready to move.
(We use the paddocks over the road in the weekends when there's little traffic and they can walk along the road safely.)

See you tomorrow,
Raewyn.

Saturday, March 14, 2020

Day 73 of 2020

Another one of those Monarch photos...!

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Raewyn.

Friday, March 13, 2020

Day 72 of 2020

The last milking of the season for a handful of younger cows - ones that need a bit longer rest as they are starting to lose condition.
Last milking means a range of treatments - 'Dry Cow Therapy' (a long acting antibiotic into each teat if they've tested as needing it), or Teat Seal to keep the bugs out of their udder, plus a drench, and a Copper 'bullet'. (Northland is naturally short in Copper so the stock need one of these regularly.)
Then it's off for 5 months holiday (for them)!

See you tomorrow,
Raewyn.

Thursday, March 12, 2020

Day 71 of 2020

When your mother is a Chiropracter and you have your own activator, of course your dolls get adjusted.
Couldn't decide which photo to use.

See you tomorrow,
Raewyn.

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Day 70 of 2020

Many of our native trees have tiny little flowers/fruits which you don't even realise are there until you stumble across them.
This is the Kahikatea tree - our tallest forest tree (apparently!) and the berries, called Koroii, were once a highly valued food source. Amazing when you see how tiny they are! 
We are so lucky with the number of native trees on our property. I really would like to try and get photos of them all.

See you tomorrow,
Raewyn.

Day 69 of 2020

Whoops nearly forgot to post this!!
It was so dark first thing that I thought it would be a cool idea to get outside for a sunrise photo.
I decided I'd like to see what the sunrise looked like rising behind the far hills. 
Which meant climbing to the top of the near hills first. Whew! No mean feat :-)
I decided to use this photo as you can see (just) the landscape here. Range of hills after range of hills.
We live in a valley between some of these hills.

See you tomorrow,
Raewyn.


Monday, March 9, 2020

Sunday, March 8, 2020

Day 67 of 2020

The grim reality of this drought.
Our main dam at the runoff (out the back) is empty. There's 100 animals out there needing water.
Luckily we have this second dam we can use. A lot smaller but it will give us another 3 weeks of water.

See you tomorrow,
Raewyn.

Saturday, March 7, 2020

Day 66 of 2020

A wee sparrow in the Fig Tree. Looking a little bedraggled as we'd had a bit of drizzle.
Lots of drizzle lately but not amounting to any useful rain at all.
Hopefully it's a sign though that the weather pattern is changing.

See you tomorrow,
Raewyn.

Thursday, March 5, 2020

Day 65 of 2020

Kids on Ganma's quilts again :-)

See you tomorrow,
Raewyn.

Day 64 of 2020

What I arrived home to.
This photo is wrong on so many levels.
1. Nigel is on the bench
2. Nigel is in a cake tin
3. There is no cake in the tin

See you tomorrow,
Raewyn.

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Day 63 of 2020

Those that know me know that this is an unusual photo.
The hairdresser today decided to give me a 'straight look' after taking a good 2" off.
I"m sure it will be back to its unruly mess soon.

See you tomorrow,
Raewyn.

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Day 62 of 2020

A tiny amount of drizzle had a pretty effect.

See you tomorrow,
Raewyn.

Sunday, March 1, 2020

Day 61 of 2020

Party food for Gandad's birthday.
Children getting taller and can see all the goodies :-)

See you tomorrow,
Raewyn.