Daily Archives: 2007-01-26

Turned the irrigation off. Found a dead brown bantam hen in the green shed; no idea why she died.

Our old sheep (ie not the 10 new ewes) have been let into the Triangle paddock – they were delighted with the change of scene and the green grass.

Campbell and I had a productive day, first clearing the outer edge of the orchard drive of poplar trash, later by chainsawing the poplars into sections of trunk between 3.5m and 8m long as per the instructions from Phil at PanPac.

Left a message for Henry O’Kane re the old grapevine posts I might be able to use to face the ha-ha. The north-eastern face of the ha-ha is 81m long; the corner angle is 26m long, and the future westerly face will be 50m long. So, to do just the current 2 faces would take about 300 2.4m reused vineyard posts (stacked 7 high); to do the whole planned ha-ha would take about 450 posts.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 14°C—21°C; 7.8mm rain [79.8]