Stef came down for a couple of weeks holiday at the middle of June, the weather co-operated reasonably well, not too much rain, and the snow held off this the last few days she was here.
We managed to get a day out at Wharariki, saw the seal pups in the pools, got blown along the beach with the wind, but the day itself was clear and sunny.
Took her back to Nelson on the 28th for her flight to Auckland, comong back the Pajero decided to have a break and blew the hose off the waterpump just as we started going up Takaka Hill on th eMotueka side. Large amounts of steam, swear words and feeling rather frustrated.
Len stopped just after I stopped, we managed to do a patch, and I coasted back to Riwaka and left the truck there for Neville to work on. It needed 2 new pipe fittings for the waterpump, the radiator got a flush out, and found I will be needing to get it replaced sometime soon. While the radiator was out, it seemed like a good time to replace all the drive belts as well.
We have 8 cows dropped calves so far, really early, I think they are some of the ones Hayden bought into the farm from Lumsden, or somewhere down south, all heifers, and as contrary a hell.
Another month or so and it will be all on, we've had the diggers going around the farm clearing drains, removing trees, stacking firewood to be split for the last month. A lot of the paddocks have bare earth, or piles of earth and rocks from the streams.
I'm going to work towards a photo exhibition for Summer, about Dec/Jan. Slowly building up some more negatives to print up, mainly landscape from around here, some sort of semi abstract, rocks/close up but mainly the landscapes around here and out at Wharariki.
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