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  • December 30, 2012

    Cold wind blowing

    .A cold day is fine. Or should I say a fine cold day is fine. But a cold day,  though not too cold with a high of 29F (-1C),  but with low slate gray clouds and a relentless wind becomes uncomfortable. Yesterday it  snowed on and off and blew without enthusiasm.  So we worked in…

  • December 29, 2012

    Shuffling the cards of cows.

    On the way out to milk yesterday morning we were greeted with a cheerful little shower of powdery snow.  Just a little.  Then it melted before our eyes. Ah well.  When I counted the hay bales the other day, and after doing the rather rudimentary maths  associated with this exercise, which frankly is as far…

  • December 28, 2012

    Getting Re-Antiquated

    I know that  heading (above) makes no sense but I have a challenge that once I have written my title  I must keep it. Sometimes the weirdest phrases and re-spellings get  stuck in  my head.  I am very grateful that you are all the kind of kind people who bear with the slight eccentricities that…

  • December 27, 2012

    Home again, Home again, Jiggedy Jig.

    And here we are back on the farmy. After an uneventful and long, long  couple of flights to Chicago from Auckland, I was whisked away from the madding crowds of  airport people, with all its suspicion and controlled chaos and driven back to the howling prairies. The wind has been blowing out of the North…

  • December 24, 2012

    A New Zealand Garden

    On the way to my friends house, and our last stop in this New Zealand journey, I saw this sign.  Cool! And here is a New Zealand garden. A little paradise right in  town.  Auckland has a wonderful climate for plants.  She even has chickens tucked away under the trees.  And her daughter goes fishing…

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