SwimGym with Karola, making up for not going on Monday.

Bangle – orchard – apple

Today Bangle flushed out a small family of pukekos, a large fluffy chick and its parents. She chased the chick and caught up with it – the older birds just fly off when she gets close but not this chick. The entertaining thing was that once Bangle cornered the chick she just stared at it for a moment then lost interest. Bramble would have had its head off in a trice. Strange that the pukekos are nesting in winter.

Karola got the ewes into the yards and we noted that #410, with the bleeding lips, seemed to be a little better so I sprayed antibiotic on her muzzle. Ewe #507 did a bout of coughing again – I think it’s lungworm which isn’t fatal but reduces the ewe’s condition. And #508 is limping markedly on her front left foot. That foot was warm while the other three were quite cold so maybe there’s an infection. I pared that foot and sprayed it liberally with foot-rot spray.

Karola and I then made a determined effort to get the next section of fence prepared. By late afternoon we had the netting and wires down and the running posts pulled out. Karola also insisted that I re-strain and crimp the broken top wire of the short fence across the north-eastern corner by the Macrocarpa – it was falling Macrocarpa branches that broke it in the big storm. With this done it isn’t critical for me to put up the replacement railings across that corner, so I suppose it was 5 minutes well spent.

Afterwards I mowed the cottage lawn. This hasn’t been mown for several weeks because at the weekends it’s just been too wet.

Karola Fishes Rolling Up 50 Metres Of Netting

Top Wire Joined Back Up In A Jiffy

Next Fence Section Ready For Re-Erection

Oak Avenue Weather:0℃—15℃ 0.2mm rain [72.8]