Thursday 22nd May

What was supposed to be a normal quiet day, finishing about 10 this morning, turned very quickly into a 12 hour work day.

We have some wet weather arriving over the weekend, so Hayden decided to not waste time, and we dried off Herd 2 today, about 500 cows, Herd 1 will be tomorrow, to take the benefit of the dry weather and keep the cows out of the wet and mud for a couple of days while drying off.

2 long days, and then I'm unemployed again till calving starts in August.

I've been looking for more photos to post from the past year, here are a few more, on the basis that if I have not a lot to write, at least you can look at the pictures :)

 Katie dehorning calves

 Tuffy pretending to be a farm dog. You will notice the cows are on the other side of the fence. He won't go into the paddock if there are cows in there.

 Zuleika feeding calves

 Paula and Lucas, both now safely back in Argentina after spending several months back packing around South East ASia on their way home from New Zealand

 Tuffy once again.

 Our new tractor, I think Hayden went over to Nelson for another tedder or something, he came home with this

 That is my Mitsubishi beside the tractor.

 Everyday, a different landscape here.

One of the two sunflowers that managed to grow this year. My garden this year was terrible, from what I've heard, everyone had a bad season, although I have a lot of dried apples/tomatoes in the pantry, and 40 jars of dill pickles and 5 litres of tomato sauce

Every now and then we get inundated with motorbike clubs visiting the Bay . These were the Nelson Motorcycle Club 

 Here is Tuffy standing guard.