As previously mentioned, we got our kunekune pigs with high hopes for them being useful as lawn mowers. After some years of mowing largish lawns at our old house, the Forbearing Husband had expressed a deep desire to avoid pushing… Continue Reading
I’ve subjected you to a few rather longwinded blog posts recently. So here, by way of a palate cleanser, is a pictorial essay I’m calling ‘The Farmlet in Winter’. Well that was winter. I have a couple more muddy tales… Continue Reading
After raining most of yesterday, it continued to rain all through last night. Not just a gentle sprinkling either, rather the sort of torrential rain you wouldn’t believe could possibly keep bucketing down hour after hour. Early this morning Stephen… Continue Reading
Over the last few days we’ve seen an awful lot of this. Kitty-pop has been mighty displeased. After her gifts of mice (one dead, two still kicking) on three consecutive days, she thought the very least we could do was… Continue Reading
Goodness, another city jaunt so soon. We must surely have maxed out our metropolis quota for 2017. This trip was closer to home, and happily there were no further episodes of inadvertent public nakedness involved. We spent a few days in… Continue Reading
Ah well, here I am picking the last of the basil. The plants might stagger on for another few weeks yet, but as the nights get cooler their leaves are dropping and turning brown. It’s only a matter of time… Continue Reading
Down on the farm gumboots are essential equipment. At a pinch, in summer, one might substitute crocs in the area close to the house, but any time you are striding across paddocks the added protection of gummies is most desirable. In winter there is… Continue Reading
In case you’ve been wondering, the feral bees are alive and buzzing. As you would expect, activity around their totara tree home has quietened considerably with the change of season. Bees don’t like rain, wind or cold, so in winter they stay inside the hive,… Continue Reading
We woke up this morning to the first frost of this winter. I was so glad of our recently refurbished wood-burner. It reliably burns all night now, just needing the damper opened up and a couple more logs thrown on in the morning… Continue Reading
Warmth and several days of rain have combined to cause a flush of grass growth. Which means we have this happening in the pony paddock right now. Poor Bonnie, doing more time in the mask of shame. And in mid-winter too — it’s a… Continue Reading
