Daily Archives: 2017-06-18

Started listening to the news and quickly turned it off as I realised they were about to describe the result of the two Saturday races of the America’s Cup in Bermuda. We then watched the races over breakfast. Most satisfactory. Team NZ first wiped their initial -1 of the scoreboard then won again to make it 1 – 0.

Bangle – orchard – apple.

Karola decided on a new home for the spare alkathene pipes, including the undamaged 50mm pipe rescued from the planting area in the Front paddock, behind the wooden wall along under the Lime tree and near the Red Beech grove. She then took the dozen or so pipes left after my purge yesterday and put them there.

Karola wants a channel from the Totara paddock down to the sheep yards so I hatched a plan to provide that.

First I picked up pine cones from beneath the Canary Island Pine – 20 – 30 cones at least. This was primarily to avoid mulching them up when I mowed the nettles under the Canary Island Pine.

Then I mowed the nettles and iris and a great many fallen leaves under the trees along the west boundary of the Middle paddock. Followed by mowing the nettles around the oak tree and Canary Island Pine in the Totara paddock. Next I mowed lanes for the electric fence, an L shaped path from the corner of the cottage garden up to the Pistachio tree in the Middle paddock then a right angle turn south and down to the Long Acre fence. And re-mowed the lanes for electric fence dividing the four blocks of grazing in the Middle paddock. Later I mowed similar lanes in the Front paddock in case we get time to make it into sections of rotational grazing before we leave.

I then put up electric fence in the L shape that divides the Totara paddock from the Middle paddock and leaves a wide corridor across the west end of the Middle paddock down to the sheep yards.

Henare meanwhile arrived, having finished his orchard pruning for the day, and started putting battens on the reconstituted fence.

Late afternoon Henare and I crimped up the wires on the seven-wire fence – the section from the Swamp Cypresses east to the road. Henare, by the light of my tractor headlamps, nailed up the running posts and so now that fence, from the runner bean enclosure right down to the Macrocarpa, is ready for battening.

Nettles & Iris Mowed Into (Temporary) Oblivion – Middle Paddock

Nettles Be Gone Under Oak In Totara Paddock

Nettles Be Gone Under Canary Island Pine In Totara Paddock

Henare Battening Up Piece Of Replaced Fence

Henare’s Neat Battening

Oak Avenue Weather:1℃—16℃ 0.1mm rain [73.1]