Daily Archives: 2016-12-23

SwimGym – went along at 7:00am but the usual ghastly music wasn’t playing, instead a much more ghastly radio station where three announcers were chatting – about eating an enormous number of somethings in a competition, and having their eyebrows shaved and shoved down their throats. So instead I went back home. Returned later after a second breakfast and sanity had been restored – we were back to atrocious thumping music as usual. So, I got my exercise done.

Turned off the irrigation because there had been a decent drop of rain in the night so further watering of the runner beans, manuka bushes, and bay tree border wasn’t necessary.

Using the tractor, moved the remains of a pile of “builders mix” gravel from beside the farm shed to where the water pools on the drive in front of the house garage, doing this while we could still see, because of the overnight rain, where the low spot was.

Put the ram and wether in the yards and took a look at the ram’s front feet. He is limping slightly on his passenger-side front foot but I couldn’t see anything wrong and it wasn’t hot. Took them from the yards back to the Goose paddock

We went out shopping, including getting strawberries and cherries to take to Wellington tomorrow. Meanwhile Henare arrived and began digging us another large death pit. He did a very tidy job, both deep and wide, and it only took him a couple of hours. I covered the hole with netting gates to minimise chance of anyone falling in.

Later I began shifting clay from around the goose bath. I hope to finish moving that and add a layer of topsoil round the rim plus a short post with a dripping tap to slowly replenish the slight leak in the bath.

Runner Beans Flowering Up

Henare’s Latest Pit

Oak Avenue Weather:11℃—22℃ 0.2mm rain [72.9]