Daily Archives: 2007-01-07

Overcast day, but still quite warm.

Karola saw some lambs on the lawn; a few have learned how to scale the ha-ha clay bank; it’ll not be so easy once I’ve faced the clay with posts made from ex-apple tree trunks, but I don’t expect to get round to that for a few more months.

Meanwhile I spent the day clearing a 1-2 metre wide swath of bamboo next to the big oak – now we have line of sight along the back of the garage and out to the Island paddock. This is all in aid of siting the gateway at the end of a future track running along a future fence parallel to the side of the homestead.

Lis and Patrick Cooney came for dinner; they’re off permanently back to Perth taking Lis’ aged parentswith them – the parents have been the reason Lis has spent so much time here over the last few years – now Lis and Patrick are selling the house on the beach at Harmoana and leaving on 22nd.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 12°C—21°C; no rain [81.2]