Another Weekend of Work

Although it has been raining all weekend, we decided to get into removing the fencing and old chicken pen in our bottom paddock. It was completely overgrown and after a couple of weeks of the sheep eating the leaves off the seedlings, it was then left to us to do the heavy duty work. The plan is to clear the whole bottom area that's overgrown to make much bigger paddocks for the sheep to graze on. Think we've made a good start!









We also managed to split and take a trailer load of wood over to Aunty Rosemary's as a thankyou for borrowing their big chainsaw. A very productive weekend!

Hair Cut

I decided to attack Millie with the sissors today. She was looking very wild and woolly. Now she's a trimmed and pretty puppy! Well the best she could look with my lack of dog grooming skills.

Digging a Ditch

I know that you all think that John's the worker and I'm the one giving the orders, but to show you I'm not lazy, today, to save my husband from more work, I've dug the ditch that was needed to lay electric cable from my mum's bach to her garage. Let's hope it's deep enough and in the right place!

A Bit of Light Pruning with a Chainsaw!

It was a beautiful weekend with the temp getting up to 17 degrees on Sunday, not bad for mid winter!

John and I were out in the garden and attacked the big tree at the top of our drive as it had grown too big and we were in danger of loosing it completely.

As you can see from the pictures we weren't very subtle, lets hope it recovers well and is even more beautiful in years to come.




The dogs decided that with branches falling down around them that it was safer to sit in the car, bless them!

No Gain without Pain!

While we were collecting some wood for Mum's new deck, poor John dropped a support beam on his big toe and is now hobbling around with a broken toe, OUCH!!!! He does seem to be in the wars at the moment, still nursing a bad knee and strained back, maybe I'm working him too hard!

Happy 3rd Anniversary to my wonderful husband!

Has it really been 3 years already? We've just celebrated by having 3 nights at a wonderful apartment at Gulf Harbour, Whangaparaoa (North of Auckland).


We relaxed, ate far too much and lots of walks along the beach. Totally spoilt. Here's to another 3 and many more after that! xx