Kiwi fruit season is about a month away at least here, then there will be work all over the place, but only for a month or so, with maybe a few weeks afterwards pruning.
I’m undecided about where to put the tunnel houses now, where I want them has been used as a parking area, with a fair bit of gravel added to the ground and a smallish hump in the middle. I tried to dig through it, so I can level it out a bit, but the spade just bounced back up. Will try to get the farmer down the road to scrape it back with the tractor and bucket, when I can catch him.
I bought another toy on Tuesday, small Poulan Chainsaw, and got rid of the acacia that I just knew would fall once I put the poly tunnels up. It wasn’t too bad, I got about a cu. m of good firewood from it, and a lot more light coming through the gap now as well.
My P class licence is turning into a major exercise, going to cost $550.00, with written tests and an hour spent driving the licencing guy around in Motueka, then waiting 6 – 8 weeks for a Police clearance. Oh well, once I have it there are the school buses, tourist buses, and general bus service that I can get.
I’m still plastering upstairs, going over where the plaster hasn’t stuck to the walls, I’ve got mesh on it now, and hopefully it will decide to stay there.
If anyone remembers the fun I had in Honiara with the rats, here I’m now inundated with field mice from the paddocks all around me. Since they were cut for silage last week, it seems as though every field mouse in the neighbourhood moved in with me, I’ve got 2 traps set continuosly, the best score so far is 8 last night out of nearly 20 I’ve caught in the past 3 – 4 days. They have no fear of people, I had one get caught at 9am this morning, while I was having a coffee. Then 2 more this afternoon while I was outside cutting the lawn.
I’ve got some Talon bait down as well now along with the traps.
I had a bit of a clean up around the garden as well, trimmed a few overgrown bits and pieces back, stacked it up and let it dry out till Thursday
between times, I tried out the oven and got rid of some ripe bananas and made banana cake with lemon icing
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The cows are spending a few days next door in the paddock,they all look
like they are due to calve soon, and are extremely curious. If they see me in the house or outside, they all cluster around the fenceline watching.
Just up the road from me, on top of the hill, is a typical farm paddock sculpture. I don't know how long it has been there, but everyone in the area knows it, and it makes a good reference point to describe where I am.
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