Back to Busy – ness

I am off again.

By the time you read this I will be in the air on the first of my three flights home.  When I get home I will cut off my nails,  pack away my good boots. Shoo the spiders out of my gumboots and begin again.

The first order of business will be organising the transport of  Tane Mahuta (pronounced Tahnay Mahoota). our new KuneKune boar.  Tane Mahuta is a very big, very old Kauri tree, probably the biggest and oldest in New Zealand.  Tane and Tima – let’s hope they really are a match made in heaven.

Then we have to find a bull for Queenie.

Then we have to log Poppy’s cycles and arrange for her to be bred in late December.

Then I will arrange for Elsie, our new Dutch Belted cow (who is already bred) to be delivered to the farmy.

Then I will begin (in earnest) the hunt for a bred Guernsey.

I plan to raise and sell some extra calves, and hopefully an extra round of piglets this coming summer to Pay the Piper for all my travels, this is why I am getting an extra milk cow.  I must have a plan before it is time to Pay the Piper.

In a few days I will send out the invitations to write for Letters for my Baby Girl. This will be a fantastic collection of fun stories of us as young mothers and fathers, advice on intersting and diverse topics, recipes, old family stories, histories, things our mothers told us, things our grandmothers told us, how to be a strong woman in a modern world.  A celebration of deep and light. Written by The Fellowship  for the baby girls (some of whom are not even babies anymore) in our families.

There are still a few copies of Letters For My Little Sister waiting for you on my shelves if you want to get your christmas shopping underway or buy one for your local library. They will still be available on Amazon until I run out.

So gird your loins my darlings. Say goodbye to the New zealand gardens until January.

It is time to get busy.

See you on the other side.

Your  travelling friend.

celi