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Guest Post #2
. This is Guest Post #2! This one is from our youngest son Thomas – and is his perspective from a visit back in August… NOTE: if anyone one else wants to do a ‘Guest Post’ – just write it up, email it to us, and we’ll get onto the business of formatting it and putting it up! Well…! HOW INCREDIBLE!! For those of you that know Selina and I, you know that it really doesn’t take much to get us excited! So to try and put into words how amazing this place is, is a challenge to say the least! We arrived back on the Tablelands at…
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Festivities, Family & Fun
. We had a lovely few days surrounded by Family, with everyone getting together for the first time in ages, for the Wedding of our youngest daughter to her beau of 11 years. Its surreal to think thats its already a week ago! š The Friday before the wedding was when all of our family members (except one – sadly Patrick couldn’t join us until the next day) arrived, so we had a barbecue in the evening down on the lakeside. There were about 15 of us all up – and despite the winds picking up and most of the Southerners being caught out by the cold, it was a…
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Hot & Moist
. Weāve had a couple of weeks of extremes on the weather scale… This time last week we were in the midst of a deluge, and were out in said deluge digging drainage trenches, and watching our 10kg doorstep float away!! The good thing about the rain is it replenished some ground-water, which was badly needed. Everything was getting very dry! It also meant that for the best part of a week, we got away with not having to water the gardens and orchard. This week, we are suffering through 32+ degree heatwaves. [35 today!] A lot of the plants – especially those in the nursery – are sagging from…
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Time flies…
. Firstly – weād like to thank all of you wonderfully kind folks who sent your thoughts, love and support (and $$s!!!) to our Family members whoād been through the trauma of Hurricane Irmaā¦ Between the worry for our Family, a bit of down-time with illness, a sneaky weekend away, and work interrupting Life (as it does!) there
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Hurricane Hell!
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Kiwi kidults return!
. Weāve had the kidults that were in New Zealand for most of the last year, back home for the last two weeks. (aka the KWL team) They stayed at the house in town, and have been doing some wonderful work for us while they visited. There has been a lot that they have achieved over the last fortnight
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Big Breakfast
. Three of the Kidults – whom have been visiting and working like demons around both the house in town, and the Farm – came over for a Big Breakfast on Sunday morning, before we started the days working bee. First cabs off the rank were home-made bread, and freshly laid eggs from our girls Izzy & Jac. It was definitely DELISH!
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DIY decore
. Weāve had some sunny days!! Oh yes indeed they have been truly glorious, as only crisp sunny winter days can be – thoroughly gorgeous. Days like the ones weāve had this week, just bring about a happiness deep in the soul that can be quite hard to explain without sounding like some spaced-out 60s hippy – but suffice to say,
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Jammin’
. Today we’re rockin’ it out – and we’re jammin’….! Strawberry Jammin’ that is š Yep – you can buy home-brand strawberry jam for super-cheap at the local supermarket, but when you read the ingredients on the back of the jar/tin, it can definitely give you a case of the willies, wondering why allllll that unnecessary stuff is even in there – and wondering just how much actual strawberries it even contains… So – at the moment in our part of the world, strawberries are thriving, and if you don’t grow them, they can be purchased for around $4kg – so who wouldn’t want to make jam?!?! And today we…
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You’ll never guess…!
. We know youāll be stunned to hear this – but weāve had more rain! Almost a fortnight of constant drizzle if truth be told, and the odd day of sunshine that we saw prior to that, was definitely fleeting. But thats the usual way of winter up here in the North – but then come to think of it – then there are the summer storms… and then cyclone seasonā¦ BUT there are always a couple of weeks each year that we start to panic though, ‘cos it hasnāt rained in “agessss“, and we worry about everything shrivelling up and dying š All jokes aside though – we watch…
