Day 345 of 2025

Finally we got the last 16 calves in for their pre-weaning 'sort out'.

And in 4 days time I'll be just feeding the smallest four!

See you tomorrow,

Raewyn

Day 344 of 2025

The brown chicken has been clucky and sitting on a nest for the past month. 

She's trying to hatch one plastic (fake) egg.

Occasionally she gets off to feed. 

She puts on a great display, telling the other hens to stay well away from her nest while she's off it!!

(Usually I put clucky hens in a 'naughty box' for 3 or 4 days and they stop being broody but I didn't this time for a variety of reasons. I wish I had a month ago but she's in it now!)

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Raewyn

Day 343 of 2025

Up early to get the cows in for milking.

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Raewyn

Day 342 of 2025

 
Baby chickens next door at our daughter-in-law's. I fed their animals while they were away at school camp.

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Raewyn

Day 341 of 2025

Thumbs up from Miss Lily for a dinner of leftovers after son-in-law's work do the night before!

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Raewyn

Day 340 of 2025

 
Another rural scene from a part of the farm I don't usually photograph.

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Raewyn

Day 339 of 2025

— A day of highs and lows for two cats —

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Raewyn

Day 338 of 2025

The beginning of another beautiful day.

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Raewyn

Day 337 of 2025

The cows just keep on walking until they find an open gate.

After morning milking.

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Raewyn

Day 336 of 2025

Another photo of the beautiful Pohutakawa at the front gate.

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Raewyn

Day 335 of 2025

I'm not getting out on my early morning walks often enough at the moment, but do enjoy them when I do!

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Raewyn

Day 334 of 2025

Hehe look at these two buddies, scritching on their poles in unison!

(Also, see how the kids arrange toys for the cats to play with!)

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Raewyn

Day 333 of 2025

It's that time of the year again...the first of the family to start raiding our trees!

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Raewyn

Day 332 of 2025

Picking the kids up after their school disco, I hoped I would get a photo.

I did, but not one of energetic children dancing but of Miss Lily showing me her cheerleading skills

in the playground. (Recognise the pose?!)

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Raewyn

Day 331 of 2025

Yes, I'm still feeding calves!

Just 16 to go.....here they are waiting for me to open the gates and give them some milk!!

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Raewyn

Day 330 of 2025

In order to keep the grass quality under control, at this time of the year, we usually 'top' each paddock after the cows have grazed it, cutting off all the seedheads.
As both tractors and both men were free, they shared the job on this paddock, making quick work of it.

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Raewyn

Day 329 of 2025

The two big bulls resting it up.

They've been on holiday since January!

Little do they know that our Artificial Mating (with a technician) is coming to an end and in less than 24 hours they'll be with the cows, finishing up mating for us.

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Raewyn

Day 328 of 2025

Very exciting - our Pohutakawa is starting to flower - and there are a lot more buds too!

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Raewyn

Day 327 of 2025

Happy cows after their afternoon milking.

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Raewyn

Day 326 of 2025

My chook run is getting very overgrown - I seriously have to do something about that lemon tree as I almost need to duck to get in!!

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Raewyn

Day 325 of 2025

Dropping a small (!) boy off to school involves getting there early enough to have a good play before the bell rings!

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Raewyn

Day 324 of 2025

Combined primary schools Kapa Haka Day.
Our girls were a bit nervous but did well.

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Raewyn

Day 323 of 2025

A driving day today and no photos from that.

Luckily a kitten was being cute and using his cat blanket when I got home!

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Raewyn

Day 322 of 2025

 
Going through Mum's embroideries and photos to bring a pile home ♥
(Her new place doesn't have the wall space for many!)

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Raewyn

Day 321 of 2025

A delicious lunch out with my sister, mum and her sisters.

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Raewyn

Day 320 of 2025

 
I walked a different direction along the beach and came across this rickety looking swing!
It was actually quite solid.......hmmmm.......!

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Raewyn

Day 319 of 2025

 
Best (hilarious) speech ever at my nephew's 21st.

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Raewyn

Day 318 of 2025

 
After a very long day on the day (roadworks everywhere!!) it was nice to walk to a restaurant and enjoy anexcellent meal.

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Raewyn

Day 317 of 2025

 

We had the most amazing 'glowing' rainbow - maybe it was because it coincided with the sunrise?

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Raewyn

Day 316 of 2025

The roses are looking a little bedraggled after some very heavy rain.

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Raewyn

Day 315 of 2025

 
I never know what Odie and I will get up to.....!

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Raewyn

Day 314 of 2025

Exploring the beautiful gardens of a friend, where a group of us gathered for lunch.

Such a lovely day.

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Raewyn

Day 313 of 2025

 

Lily's 'Gymnastics' club held its annual end of year performance.

She has been doing Cheerleading this year. That's her being held up by the other girls.

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Raewyn

Day 312 of 2025

We've borrowed some sheep off the neighbour to tidy the orchard up.

It's always a pleasure to watch his dogs work with the sheep.

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Raewyn

Day 311 of 2025

 
There's a mob of calves in there somewhere.......

........ahhh there they are —

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Raewyn

Day 310 of 2025

I let the youngest calves out into the paddock and they enjoyed a good run!

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Raewyn

Day 309 of 2025

Depending on what's happening with my calves, I've been squeezing the odd early morning walk in.

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Raewyn

Day 308 of 2025

The calf shed is really emptying out now, as calving has finally finished!

(We had a false end to calving, when all the herd had calved, but then a cow labelled as empty and out the back took us by surprise and calved!)

These are the five youngest ones.

I'm still feeding calves out on the farm but as we wean more and more, those mob sizes are decreasing too :-)

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Raewyn

Day 307 of 2025

....and back to the workshop it goes....

(Thankfully just a dirty sparkplug.)

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Raewyn

Day 306 of 2025

Early morning feed time.

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Raewyn

Day 305 of 2025

 
Gosh, I go away for 2 nights and the garden explodes into colour!

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Raewyn

Day 304 of 2025

 
The start of a busy day.

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Raewyn

Day 303 of 2025

Set up day for Festival of Quilts in Auckland.

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Raewyn

Day 302 of 2025

 

Athletics day at the local primary school.

Saydee throwing the discus.

Interestingly, this time, both (identical) twins tied for first place in overall points.

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Raewyn

Day 301 of 2025

This rather random looking photo represents such a lot....!

At 5am I was down the road rounding up a mob of calves that had got out of the neighbours during the night - getting them off the road before traffic started up was my main concern.

(They'd walked/run 4.5 kms!!)

At 6am, on my way back from said neighbours to let them know their calves were out but safe, I encountered their cows on the road - an open gate meant they were streaming out everywhere! More stock control needed to 'contain' them.

At 6.45am on my way back home, I encountered two more of their calves on the road, so walked them back to our yards.

Phew.

At 7.30am when feeding OUR calves my phone flipped out of my pocket into the paddock.

At 9.30am we had our annual Shed Inspection - lots of paper work and compliance involved. However all went well. Phew.

10.30am MOML and I were back in the calves' paddock looking for my phone.

YAAAY He found it - I was so relieved that I promised him scones for lunch.

We deserved that after the morning we had!!

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Raewyn

Day 300 of 2025

George did really well on his wee trail bike.

He rode all the way out to the runoff and back, then to the back hills over the river.

(With Dad and sister behind him.)

Probably about 9kms altogether.

He was ready for a fluffy and cake by the time they'd finished!!

See you tomorrow,

Raewyn

Day 299 of 2025

The milk from the new calvers is not keeping well at all now that the days are a lot warmer.

Lately I've made yoghurt, cottage cheese and mozzarella (!!!) when adding hot water to warm it up for the calves.

What the calves won't drink, the chickens definitely will!

See you tomorrow,

Raewyn

Day 298 of 2025

My whiteboard in the calf shed is pretty full but Lily managed to find an empty spot to write up some (more) calf names - love the theme of this batch of names!

See you tomorrow,

Raewyn