Monthly Archives: March 2006

Georgious Autumn Morning

A glorious sunny autumn morning; we awoke to the dragon’s breath of a bright yellow hot-air balloon drifting across the landscape.

I went looking for white boards on Trade-Me website/ The Warehouse Stationery price for new 900mm x 1200mm (3′ x 4′) boards is between $150 and $250; the higher priced ones having a porcelain finish and metal backing so they can be used with, eg, fridge magnets. Prices on Trade-Me seemed marginally cheaper when transport costs are added in but it’s hard to be sure, from a small photo and almost no technical specifications, what you’re really buying. I want a 3′ x 4′ white board for the office, thinking it’d be useful for keeping lists of jobs to be done outside.

Did a little on the ha-ha in late afternoon.

Pest controller came and wiped out two wasps nests after dark this evening. ($50).

Hawkes Bay Weather: 8°C—19°C; northerly breeze in the afternoon; no rain. [77.6]

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Office Arrangements

Karola had a man come and hang blinds in the office. These were bought some time ago in a sale – made for someone else for $2000 and we got them for $200 – wooden slatted blinds.

I mowed Bicka’s pen and the small lawn in front of the garage, fed the sheep a bale of hay to curb their appetite when being let into the new grass for 4 hours, and caught a lamb that yesterday got through the electric fence and put it back with the flock. Karola let the sheep out late morning and got them back again around 5:00pm. Most of the day spent in moving furniture out to the office, now the blinds are up, and connecting up a computer out there. There are now 5 working computers at the Homestead: my Thinkpad laptop loaned by IBM, my Mac mini, Karola’s NetVista, an elderly IBM Thinkpad laptop in the guest room, and our IBM server in the office.

Karola sowed lawn grass along the top of the ha-ha, smoothing out the humps and ridges as she went.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 11°C—15°C; southerly breeze in the morning; no rain. [77.4]

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Sheep Get Into A Routine

Karola and I completed our putting up of temporary electric fence and also refilled the foot trough with Magnesium Sulphate mixed into water and bark chippings. The idea is that the sheep have to go through the trough to get to good grass and we only allow them 4-5 hours on the new grass each day, pushing them back through the foot trough to spend the rest of the time in the Top paddock which is pretty low on grass. The idea seemed to work fine today – they went through, enjoyed themselves in the new grass and returned after about 5 hours.

I spent 3 hours assembling two waist-high kitchen cupboards ($140 each from Placemakers) that’ll give us somewhere other than open shelves or the fridge to store food.

Also, two 2-drawer commercial filing cabinets arrived – they’re very smart as filing cabinets go, dark blue with solid sides to the drawers and an anti-tilt feature stopping you opening more than one drawer at a time.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 12°C—18°C; southerly breeze; no rain. [76.9]

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Footrotting Sheep – Damp Brings It On

Mainly drizzle so another day indoors. Did get a few periods where rain stopped and in the gaps I spread grass seed on the sloping side of the ha-ha and erected temporary electric fence along the edge – we’ll probably let the sheep into the new grass tomorrow; after this rain it’s greened up nicely.

Karola fed hay to the sheep mid afternoon and we both treated the footrot in #201, #210 (horrid, maggots, the lot), #519, #512, #513 – I missed the little fly-struck lamb, it is limping but seems pretty cheerful. Also #406, the one that got itself tangled in the fence wire, is walking fairly freely now.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 14°C—18°C; southerly in the afternoon; 5mm rain. [77.1]

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Damp Day – Very Humid

Bought wood for the retaining walls at either end of the main stretch of the ha-ha; otherwise a damp day and no outside work.

  • 14 x 2.4m retaining wall planks
  • 4 x 2.1m half-round posts (actually got 2.4m pointed posts as they had no 2.1m half-rounds)
  • 2 x 2.4m 100mm round posts
  • 1 x 3m 150mm round post
  • 5kg 125mm galv. nails

Hawkes Bay Weather: 14°C—20°C; 10mm rain. [77.6]

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Nice Chronic Precipitation

Rained most of the day so inside work prevailed.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 11°C—16°C; southerly wind turned northerly in the afternoon; 67mm rain. [77.9]

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Automatic Fowl Feeder Arrived

It drizzled on and off today. My fowl feeder and water trough arrived and I assembled them ready for trials tomorrow. The feeder mechanism is a metal spring coil with gaps between the coils wide enough for the chosen foodstuff, 3mm for whole wheat grain for example. The poultry learn to peck at a red plastic bung inserted in the end of the spring and that joggles the spring letting food fall.

Karola and I did some more on the railings.

I bought two pieces of used Rimu from a local house dismantlers – one is a very handsome door made of solid tongue and groove rimu, the other is a heavy rimu benchtop with a lacquered finish, slightly damaged. Karola prefers this solution to the need for work surfaces over new chipboard or, worst of all, kitset furniture from discounters. Asking price was somewhat more than chipboard (about $50 a sheet 2400mm x 1200mm) – the listed price for the 2 pieces was $325 but I got them for $250.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 12°C—15°C; southerly wind; 2mm rain. [77.4]

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Leaks Fixed

Ron Bishop came in the morning and fixed a leak in the irrigation pipeline running behind the garage. He also fixed a slow leak in the pipes at the tap on the edge of the ha-ha and relocated the tap from the top to the bottom of the ha-ha. I still have some backfilling and finishing to do.

Karola and I did some more railings. We then went to town and I looked for office equipment and supplies – I’ve another 2 2-drawer filing cabinets coming next week and now have a label maker and other stuff ready to try some of David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” practices.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 13°C—18°C; southerly wind; 2mm rain. [77.4]

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Rains Reigns on the Plains

Rained most of the day. Ron Bishop came and looked at the irrigation pipe leak and says he’ll be back tomorrow to fix it and to resite one of the taps that is now to be at the bottom of the ha-ha – that tap also has a slow leak in one of the joints.

Seen an advert for a poultry automatic feeder – which, if it works, would allow us to go to Wellington for a few days and not worry about our very free range bantams. The geese eat grass anyway so neither they nor the sheep would mind – all they need is constant water.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 15°C—19°C; southerly wind; 27mm rain. [77.8]

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More on the Fence

More railings work.

Also think I found the leak in the water system causing the flooding behind the garage – a cut in the 40mm alkathene pipe that, to my surprise, was only buried a 200mm or so along the mulch path behind the garage – I was expecting it to be about half a metre down at least, like the rest of the system. Have called Vern Bishop to see about getting it fixed.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 14°C—18°C; 13mm rain. [78.5]

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Drought Breaks At Last

Went shopping this morning – 3 large G-clamps ($5 each) and 2 small hydraulic car jacks ($6 each – end of line giveaway, they’re usually $40 or more), and some galvanised bolts.

Karola and I cleaned the edges of the garage roof of a couple of years accumulation of leaves and needles that have been coloring our rainwater for some time. The gutters are covered with a perforated plastic mat so that leaves don’t go in, but some leaves get caught and accumulate on the edge of the roof. We were just in time as this evening we had several mm of rain – that actually wet the ground and qualifies as the end of the drought.

In the afternoon we continued with the fence. I sawed off the ends of the bolts on the gate and smoothed them over with a grinder, Karola primed them ready to be painted a dark colour so they aren’t so conspicuous. We continued nailing up some of the close-boarded planks.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 13°C—26°C; 1mm rain. [77.7]

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A Little Light Rainfall – And A Gate Finally Swings

Karola’s old wooden gate is finally installed. Yesterday we were stymied because none of my 20mm drill bits were long enough to go entirely through the gatepost. The usual screw-in gudgeons barely go through half the post but but I’d got the stronger lock-through gudgeons this time as the old gate is very heavy, and these go right through the post with a big washer and nut either side. Today I bought an old 20mm hand auger from White Traders ($8) which did the trick – a new drill bit or auger would cost $50 or more. Much to my surprise, and counter to all previous experience (isn’t most experience ‘previous’?) we got the holes in the right places and the gudgeons on the right angles first time and the gate was level and swung perfectly.

Karola found an old fashioned gate latch and I put in an old stout totara half-height post as a gate stop, matching the gate in height and fastened to the strainer post with #8 wire.

As dusk fell there was a short rainfall; barely enough to wet the dust; more is forecast for tomorrow night. More like 1mm than the 11mm recorded at the local weather station.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 16°C—22°C; 11mm rain. [77.7]

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Gatepost Wire Tieback

Hottest place in NZ again today.

A lamb got its head stuck in one of our netting fences – it was probably stuck all night – I freed it just by easing the neck wool through and then turning its muzzle. The tree protection netting fence uses what is called “European docking netting” which has smaller holes and which stops the sheep getting their heads through munching our trees and occasionally getting stuck. Every year there’s one or two lambs who get stuck this way with the conventional netting.

More work on railings including making a support for the gatepost using a loop of number 8 wire round the top of the gatepost and the foot of the next post along and “twitching it up” – that is twisting it by inserting a piece of wood between the two strands and turning it until very tight.

Karola and I have spent several hours discussing the native tree planting we must do this autumn – probably a couple of hundred trees we think.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 10°C—25°C; no rain. [77.2]

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Ranting and Railing

More work on the railings. We’ve now decided on a close-boarded fence from the old wooden gate to the ha-ha. It’ll be 1.25 metres tall as it’s intended to reduce noise and provide privacy as well as keeping animals in/out. There’ll be 8 6-metre planks in each section; the planks are badly warped which makes putting them up challenging – trying to straighten them as much as possible as we go.

Mary and Claudia went to the Horse of the Year show and returned briefly before leaving around 6:00pm. Bicka enjoyed games with their large friendly Alsatian called “Steve”.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 15°C—19°C; no rain. [?]

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Horse of the Year Show

Took in 2 chainsaw chains for repair/sharpening ($6.50 each to sharpen at Chainsaw Sales and Service; would be $12 at HB Mower Services) and bought an extra one too.

In the afternoon Karola went to HB Horse of the Year Show at Hastings Showgrounds and I did a bit more to the railing fence.

Mary Wilson and daughter Claudia arrived in the evening for the weekend – they are attending the Horse of the Year Show.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 11°C—25°C; no rain. [76.8]

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Planning For Peaches

Spent a couple of hours with Karola and Alan Ladbrooke measuring the areas to be planted in peaches this winter and planning how we’d remove the existing Braeburn and Royal Gala trees scheduled for demolition. Karola will purchase 600 peach trees and Alan will plant and tend them. We will be taking out about 400 Braeburn and 400 Royal Gala trees.

Later we carried on with fence building; firstly Karola’s rusty iron railings round an intentionally dripping tap and some native trees and flax out by the green shed; then on the railings connecting the tree protection fence to the ha-ha.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 13°C—22°C; southerly breeze turning to northerly in the afternoon; no rain. [76.9]

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Karola Returns

Karola came home from Wellington this afternoon. I worked on the fence for a few hours in the morning.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 9°C—24°C; no rain. [77.9]

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Ewe Tangled In Island Fence

Spent much of the morning rearranging electric fencing. The sheep now have all the Triangle including a strip of the lawn and round the Chinese Phytinia and the Palm where the pigeons live, also under the big oak tree and down the track to the Rhododendron gateway in the Back paddock. The sheep are very pleased to have the extra food and the variety.

I also put electric tape down the side of the ha-ha and a water trough in the new grass area because Mary Wilson rang and asked if friends of hers could run their horses in our paddock while they participated in the Hawkes Bay “Horse of the Year” show. As it happened they let me know late afternoon that they’d been given 2 paddocks at the show grounds so didn’t need our help this time.

Late afternoon I completed putting in the gatepost for Karola’s big old wooden gate and one of the posts needed to continue the fence with rails from the gate along to the ha-ha.

Alan Ladbrooke rang this evening to say he and his son Adam noticed one of our ewes hung up in the Island fence at 8:00am today – it’d got one leg between the two top wires and twisted them round, trapping its hoof. Between them they freed it and it limped off and started grazing, apparently none the worse for its amazing entanglement.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 8°C—20°C; northerly wind in the afternoon; no rain. [78.0]

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Laser Level Proves Useful

Quiet day – took down about 20 metres of very old and rusty wire fence from alongside the bamboo and used my recently acquired laser level for the first time. On current experience I think it’s going to make it quick and easy to plot fence right angles and ha-ha levels – the red laser dot is visible to me for 15 – 20 metres. Did a lot of watering of trees and shrubs today.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 7°C—19°C; southerly wind changing to northerly in the afternoon; no rain. [77.8]

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Poultry Cull

David and Mona Jeffries came round in the morning with their new baby Isobel, Mona’s mother from Ireland, and Hilary, David’s mother.

More bamboo cutting in the afternoon, also went to Mitre 10 to get additional blades for the reciprocating saw – I broke one. The bamboo is now cleared from the west up to the old fence running along inside the bamboo but there’s a very large pile of cut bamboo to deal with.

This evening I knocked off all of the cockerels bar one. Four of the ten chick family, two of the five chick family, and both original old cockerels. I chose one cockerel to remain because it’s brown and black and the chicks are brown or white or mixed brown and white – so their hen was the original brown hen or her daughter and their sire was in at least some cases the original white cockerel whereas he was sired by the original brown cockerel and the original black hen. I collected the cockerels in a sack and chopped off their heads with Karola’s hatchet. It had to be done eventually and I think the farmyard will be a happier place now – from the hens perspective at least.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 13°C—22°C; southerly wind in the afternoon; no rain. [78.3]

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Bamboo Feast For Sheep

Mowed the circle under the Canary Island Pine, including the 9 young Totara in their tree guards. Then re-setup electric fence around the edge of the circle. Started watering the Totara trees using the natural head of water from the artesian bore. Set up electric fence so the sheep can eat the leaves of the bamboo I’ve cut.

Anne Velvin called in briefly with her new granddaughter.

Continued with cutting bamboo – have got a swathe cut back to the old fence about a metre inside the bamboo thicket. With one more day’s work on it we’ll be able to dismantle the old fence stretching from the big Oak tree down to the Scott’s (southern end) border.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 15°C—25°C; northerly wind in the afternoon; no rain. [78.3]

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Reciprocating Saw Works on Standng Bamboo

Frank Wilson called round for morning tea. Janet Scott dropped by to compliment us on the ha-ha development.

Tried out the reciprocating saw on bamboo. It is effective in cutting standing bamboo at ground level; less so in cutting up felled bamboo or in pruning the side branches.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 6°C—23°C; southerly wind; no rain. [78.1]

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Karola Flies To Wellington

Karola has gone to Wellington to see daughter Bridget for the week. I spent the afternoon shopping, including getting an electric reciprocating saw – this is an experiment to see if it is efficient at cutting and trimming bamboo. Got it 1/2 price from the WareHouse because the box was missing an allen key tool and blades; by buying a set of new blades I got it for $40 (compared with cheapest at Mitre 10 of $90) – I’ll probably try it out tomorrow.

Did more work with the Fergie front-end loader – spreading earth around the grass bridge to level it off.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 8°C—19°C; southerly wind; no rain. [78.3]

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Sheep Meal Treat – Acorn Stew With Added Acorn

Sheep drenched for internal parasites (Leviben) and external parasites (Magnum) – this took most of the morning and was totally exhausting. One lamb evaded me and got through the gate but I leapt onto it and grabbed it, glasses flying (but a cushioned woolly landing of course) – unfortunately 2 other lambs followed and jumped over me and my captive. But this was early on and so we just repenned all the treated sheep and caught and processed the delinquents. Right near the end – 4 to go out of 71 – an old ewe made a break for it. So, we finished the remainder and then brought them all back into the pens and I tried to catch #219. In the process Karola got head-butted by a flying lamb and I resorted to flying tackle and eventually caught the strong, headstrong but bony old ewe.

Karola broke the code on why the sheep have been remarkably content for the last week despite having virtually no grass at all – they’ve been feeding on acorns, 1000s of them. Under each of the big oak trees in the Back and Middle paddocks there’s a carpet of acorn cups – but no acorns. Outside those paddocks the oak trees currently carpet the ground with acorns and acorn cups.

In the afternoon I got concrete rubbish from various flower beds, from behind the green shed, from the geese bath tub and added it to the skip – the skip will be collected tomorrow. I also added a dozen Fergie buckets of soil to the grass bridge, building up the wings to be more level with the paddock and the planned top of the ha-ha.

Census forms filled out yesterday and collected this afternoon.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 15°C—27°C; northwesterly wind turning to southerly after midday; no rain. [77.1]

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Concrete Syntax – Rubbish

Full skip replaced with an empty one at about 8:00am – the day spent filling it with unwanted concrete rubbish; this skip is only allowed to contain clean concrete rubbish – apparently it’s valuable to someone as long as it doesn’t have other rubbish mixed in. Karola and I filled the landrover trailer with concrete pieces she’d stashed behind the Casurina shelter belt on the Scott’s boundary a couple of years ago – I don’t know how she lifted some of the bits – I could hardly lift them. Karola later emptied the entire trailer load into the skip unaided.

Meanwhile I sorted through 10 concrete strainer posts and their stay posts, consigning badly damaged / corroded ones to the skip and chugging up to the big shed to stack them for posterity if they were in good shape. The strainers are so heavy I can barely lift one end – the Fergie strained carrying 2 at a time on its back mini-forks – the tyres had big nasty bulges as they took the strain.

Then I sorted through over 60 concrete posts; a dozen were rejects sent to the skip, the others also went on the Fergie’s mini-forks, 12 at a time, up to a new tidy pile alongside the big shed. I can just lift the heaviest of the posts, supporting it on my legs – they are HEAVY. Good for the wieght loss I’m sure.

Finally I dug out an old concrete fence wire anchor and Karola found lots more bits of concrete rubbish in and around the back garden – also destined for the skip. We have a couple more places to clear and the skip will be about full – it must weigh several tonnes. Karola also found time to do some weeding, mowing, watering – as she does almost every day up here.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 14°C—27°C; northwesterly wind; no rain. [77.8]

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A Skip In Time

Today we continued with the final demolition of the old chicken house, taking a long time to remove netting and tin that had grown embedded into the English Beech tree. I ordered a 4 cubic metre rubbish skip ($175) and by late afternoon we had completely removed the demolition rubbish and completely filled the skip. We’ve asked for another one for tomorrow, this time for broken concrete, mainly old broken concrete fence posts, which are piled up near the English Beech – another $175, another 4 cubic metre skip but it’s only allowed to contain clean concrete rubbish, nothing else. It certainly makes short work of clearing away although it’s expensive for large amounts of stuff.

Using the Fergie I pulled up an old fashioned fence wire anchor next to the Chinese Photinia – a 15mm heavy wire attached to a large buried block of concrete which resisted all efforts until I excavated half of it. I also used the Fergie to spread some mulch – scrapings from under the lime tree and some conifers – onto the track from the front gate to the grass bridge to protect some tree roots exposed at the surface.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 13°C—25°C; southerly wind turning to northerly in the afternoon; no rain. [78.3]

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Elm Fallen Branches Make Firewood

More branches have fallen recently so today I chainsawed up several that had fallen from the elm trees in the Back paddock.

We went food shopping this morning; Karola entertained Kevin Watkins (Hastings District Council counsillor with a house-moving business) and 4 young Chinese woman dancers; Liz Cooney came to dinner.

Wind gusts very strong in the early evening.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 5°C—22°C; southerly wind veering southwest by evening; no rain. [79.0]

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Little Packing Shed / Chook House Demolished At Last

Excitement of the day was a big warehouse fire a kilometre or so away – VJ Distributors, a modern warehouse holding commercial cleaning and lubricant supplies. It started around 11:00am and burned all afternoon, sending huge plumes of evil toxic black smoke towards the coast; by early afternoon we could smell it although the main smoke was well above and to the south of us. We were worried early on that it was Stonycroft – a big old wooden house also on Omahu Rd and almost across the street from V J Distributors, but it was not.

Karola and I did a major demolition job on an old packing shed come chook house that was built under and onto and into our large English Beech tree. The main structures are down leaving rubbish to clear away and some nasty bits of netting and tin embedded in the Beech. Karola has been intending to do this for many years – and with some help from the Fergie to pull the walls and ceiling down it’s done.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 9°C—16°C; southerly wind; no rain. [78.3]

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Retaining wall and fence finished

Now that the retaining walls for the tree-planting area are complete I’ve spent the day shovelling earth to fill and flatten inside the walls and put up a continuation of the tree planting area’s post, wire and netting fence where it crosses the depression/meander. The netting was about 200mm too short so to avoid starting another roll I attached the netting to a pair of 900mm half-round posts – sandwiching the netting between them and nailing them firmly together – and tied this assembly to the strainer post. Quite satisfactory.

Today, in the morning, I went on a shopping spree and bought a crimping tool for #8 wire (4mm) and 50 crimps. These make neater joins than I can do by hand and I want to try out an idea for a 5-rail fence where the 2nd and 4th rails are replaced with a loop of #8 wire going round the two end posts and being twisted together – ‘twitched’ as they say. An inconspicious join is essential, hence the experimenting with crimps. Today’s wire joins were all done with crimps.

I also bought:

  • 15kg Nutrience dog food for Bicka
  • 25kg whole maize – for the geese
  • 25kg wheat – for the bantams
  • 1 litre Leviben with added minerals and selenium – drench for the sheep
  • a level on a tripod – for my amateur surveying for the ha-ha and related projects

Becca from “Surveying The Bay” finished surveying the boundary changes today – white pegs on the two new corners.

The retaining walls on either side of the tree planting area where it crosses the depression/meander are complete, the earth is smoothed and the netting fence extended – in a nutshell it’s finished at last – except for the planting of course.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 10°C—16°C; southerly wind; no rain. [77.8]

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GST Complete For Dec/Jan

More retaining wall work after doing our GST and posting it off 3 days late, and struggling with some sudoku puzzles for an hour or so.

Sheep from Triangle into Middle/Top/Back. Hartley Curry expected Friday to help give sheep anti-fly and anti-lice treatment, and maybe a drench for internal parasites too.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 10°C—21°C; mainly southerly wind; no rain. [78.1]

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Of Boundaries and Trees

In the morning we took a look at the surveying work and discussed where fences and planting might go. It looks like the western boundary will be fine for partitioning the Top paddock but in the orchard to the north we’ll probably not remove the one row of Royal Gala apple trees that are on the new boundary but instead limit ourselves to removing the adjoining Braeburns and put up a temporary fence along that part.

In the afternoon Karola and I did more work on the retaining wall – made excellent progress.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 6°C—26°C; southerly wind turning northerly in the afternoon; no rain. [78.1]

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