A Hawkes Bay winter’s day. Cold but sunny start then warmed up and stayed sunny until late afternoon.

We watched the Americas Cup pair of races recorded at 5:00am this morning. Another win for Team New Zealand but I fear that the American boat is now faster. Two more races tomorrow morning. It could be as close as 3 – 4 by the end of the day.

Bangle – orchard – apple

Henare came around 10:00am and worked through till darkness fell, well even later as he finished off today’s last three battens by the light of the Landrover headlamps. In the morning Henare put in two short (2.1 metre) strainer posts for the new railings I’m going to put up, replacing the short netting fence across the corner by the Macrocarpa. In the afternoon Henare finished all the battens from the One Acre norther gateway all the way down to the Macrocarpa and from there across to the new wooden gate by the Lime tree. That is all the post-and-wire fence needed to keep the sheep in the Front paddock; the northern side of the One Acre still need battens but not before we go to the UK 6th July.

No lawn mowing today, the ground is very wet still. In the afternoon I began putting up the short railings forming a V from the One Acre gateway across to the fence – two small posts in and the bottom rails on.

Oak Avenue Weather:6℃—14℃ no rain [72.6]