A while since Little Girl has been on the blog.
Cant beat a photo of a nice horse :-)
See you tomorrow,
Raewyn.
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Monday, March 30, 2020
Saturday, March 28, 2020
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
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 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 76 of 2020
Amazing how quickly a few insects can hollow out a piece of fruit!
See you tomorrow,
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
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 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
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.
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