Daily Archives: 2007-01-06

Another sunny day, hot in the sun but just right, with a gentle breeze, in the shade.

Jim Cornes came and collected his ram this morning. It’d jumped into the geese enclosure to be with the stray ewe lamb – well 2-tooth actually, a last-year’s lamb. The fence was buckled but still standing where the ram had struggled over. Turned out that the stray also belonged to Jim so he took it away too.

Karola and I weeded the 60 Yew trees along the roadside fence – in the shade and the ground is still moist enough that pulling up the weeds was easy, the deep mulching that Campbell and I gave them also helped.

I’ve completed the 1/2-dug srtrainer post hole; only 2 more to dig before I get on with putting the posts in and putting on guide wires – then I can hire th epost rammer and bang in the intermediate posts; that’ll be real progress.

Bob Masters came and turned the hay – took him about 15 minutes. He thinks there’ll be about 100 bales; he expectes to return to bale the hay on Monday.

I’ve cleared a swathe of bamboo along the edge of the grove nearest to the big oak; this is to allow me to line up the future drive and the gateway into the orchard with the back of the garage. About another hour should clear enough for the sightline.

Correction: one bantam hen sitting; couple more are just laying eggs and aren’t yet broody – I took their eggs.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 9°C—26°C; no rain [81.6]