Daily Archives: 2007-01-20

On this quiet Saturday Karola went shopping and I pondered plans for sheep yards. It’s not that I want to interrupt the fencing for yard building, but putting the fences at places which won’t hinder the yard building later is what I have in mind. At last I have a firm proposal – this plan puts the yards near the current makeshift affair, inside the Island paddock and with shade from trees as well as sheep ‘flow’ from dark to light and away from the sun, as recommended by sheep psychologists everywhere. Biggest concern has been how to allow trucks, including Mobile Shearing, to connect their chute (USA lingo) or race to the yards.

I reinstalled 3 of the posts we rammed yesterday; the 3 most crooked. Also did online configuration of a Dell desktop computer for Anna and her sons, again.

A few weeks ago Karola bumped into Mark and Katie Bowen at the Hastings Farmers Market – selling their own Macadamia nut products. Mark is son of Richard and Annette Bowen; Annette is sister of Juliette Bowen who rented Karamu for several months back in the 1980s. They are all Mahia Ormond relations. Anyway, Karola invited them to stay here on one of their weekly trips to the Hastings market and they came today with their children: L, Melanie, and Angela.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 13°C—26°C; no rain [80.1]