It all started on Thursday when Steph's parents arrived, and 'cause they don't come down very often, I took Friday off work, and we thought we would go down to the beach and do some kite fishing. Friday came, and we had to run a few errands first thing, but once that was done, and we had had some l;unch, we checked the wind down a Ngawi, and whilst it was marginal for kite fishing, we thought we would give it a go. So after loading the car, we headed down. Thankfully with the skyhook, the kite went out quite nicely and in the first set we only caught 1 dogfish, so we baited it up again and put it back out. Oh dear, after about 20 minutes out, the weather looked like it might turn so we started pulling it back in, at which stage around 100m off shore the main line snapped! The kite was still anchored to the bottle so it was still flying and it probably stayed there till around 5pm on Saturday when the wind finally dropped.
Oh well, shit happens!
Saturday, Steph, Connor and I headed up to Hawkes Bay to see Mum and Dad for Dad's birthday, and we just happened to organise the collection of three Wessex Saddleback pigs. We spent the morning shopping in Y'Puk and had a reasonable nice meal at a pub, and then in the afternoon Amy bathed Connor and we then went down to collect the pigs.
We left soon after getting back to Mum and Dad's and finally got home around 8:30pm. We gave the pigs a quick feed, and headed to bed.
Sunday was pretty full on, we had heaps of visitors, Craig came up, and brought his two daughters. They had great fun patting everything from the pigs,chooks, rabbits and the horse, then Joe and Michelle turned up to drop off a trough for the pigs, and then just as Craig was leaving, someone from work dropped in for a cup of tea. After that, we brought the ewe flock in for their 5-in-1 vacs prior to lambing, and it looks like the ram that shouldn't have been fertile got to all but three going by "bits" and nipples! Oh well, at least they will all lamb together! Whilst the flock (and the three lambs) were in the pen, I vaccinated the lambs, and also docks their tails. Left our boy entire as he'll be freezer fodder so his nuts won't be a problem.
Also today, I started cleaning out the barn, trying to get that a bit more organized, that pesky goat down there, she has started being very mobile, keeping her off her knees is proving to be quite problematic!.
Later that afternoon, Alex came over to have another play on the lathe, he's started turning a fruit bowl.
I think it must be near bed time for me, so here's a photo of our pigs!
3 comments:
Maybe I'm being stupid here, but what's a chook?
A chook is a colloquial term for chicken
Well, that clears that up! You certainly talk the talk, but I guess you've been 'over there' for 12 years or so now! Love the pigs, BTW!
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