Daily Archives: 2016-12-09

SwimGym, an hour later than usual, after breakfast.

Then the Friday shopping for GF bread, vegetables, and fish. Also dropped in at Harris Pumps & Filtration and bought 50m of 20mm polyethelene (aka alkathene), and 50m of 13mm polyethelene plus another plastic valve – all ready for the small extension to the water reticulation to bring water to the farm shed and make a permanent home for the old bath for the geese.

Karola & I looked at the rat traps in the house and I replaced the lure bottles. Later I also repositioned the possum trap as I’d had no kills where it was.

I moved the old bath, intended to be a rather modest pool for the geese, to where I think it will serve best, in the Goose Enclosure near the driveway fence and just north of the fir tree with lovely cones in the Goose Enclosure south-east corner.

Henare called round for more clean bore water and helped me liberate 50m or so of alkathene pipe from the undergrowth down the avenue side of the 1221 driveway. We haven’t used it for years and as Karola says, should we decide we need some irrigation on that side of the driveway we could use a smaller diameter pipe. The tractor did most of the hard pulling but Henare helped and also chopped clinging vegetation with his trusty and seriously effective loppers.

Oak Avenue Weather:12℃—23℃ no rain [73.3]