Looking at the TV news on the recent floods in Christchurch I’m very grateful that we don’t flood up here. We do get ferocious gales however so I suppose it’s always something. And currently the last three months have been too dry as well. I guess with a farmer the weather is rarely perfect. However …
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How Dry It Is.
And it certainly does seem to be less rainy than usual. I had my suspicions that this could be so coming into January and so far they’re being confirmed. Unusually we seem to be getting not only less less rain than usual but also less than the nearest larger town 20K away, which has had …
Eggs-actly
the usual egg trickle is down as of late January. I have four hens visibly sitting (3 on hot air and hope, one on 7 eggs) and heaven alone knows what some of the other hens are up to. I’m averaging an egg a day instead of half a dozen. That’s enough to keep me …
New Life Lands
Yes, it’s ‘that’ time of the year again, and yesterday I went out to the paddock where the flock is currently grazing and found two new arrivals. Rachel sheep has had twin ewe lambs. Charming little wobbly-legged creatures that look to be thriving thus far. Foley (the ram – who belongs to a friend) seems …
That was the Week That was!
It was also just over a a week in time where events ran into a number of areas in my usual blog and left me breathless. It started on Saturday the 18th with my having decided several days earlier to email the nice chap who was my editor for a short story collection due out …
Ambling Along
The geese have now settled down for the summer. The meter reader came a couple of days ago, passed by that lot as they snoozed in the hedge, and didn’t receive even a peep of acknowledgement. Good, I can relax knowing that next time they go berserk it really will be burglars and not friends …
Very Pleasant New Year.
Friends arrived on New Year’s day and were able to stay several nights. They are cat-lovers and Thunder was ecstatic, I was very pleased to see them, but the geese – refused permission to eat visitors – weren’t quite so delighted. It was a different thing when they departed. Thunder turned his back on them, …
Strayed – One Gaggle.
I went out to get the mail and say Hi to our rural delivery, was halfway back to the house when he began honking the car-horn and I reversed hastily. What, something more for me? Nope, well, yes, if you consider information as something for me. The very unwanted unwelcome information that almost all of …
And Again – a gosling.
Yes, a second gosling has joined the gaggle this season. Sister One went off to nest under the bathroom window and sat on two eggs. One hatched. She has continued to sit on the other still so the gaggle have taken over the baby for daytimes. So far junior is three days old and still …
Lambs
23 March 2014
Yes, the ewes lambed and now the babies have all been brought in and the stuff done for them that happens at that time of the year. Rubber rings on the tails, and vaccinations. It wasn’t well received – it never is – but better that than flystrike or tetanus. So they’re back out in …
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