Grandma and Granddad Cambridge have now been her for nearly 2 weeks. The boys are enjoying being spoilt. Eric is now so comfortable that he thinks he can get away with doing rabbit fingers behind Grandma's head! Foolish boy.We have been doing all the usual Easter things. Went to the Saturday market today - very busy. Eating lots, drinking moderate amounts and generally kicking back and enjoying the start of the Easter holidays.
We went down to Ahipara with Don and Ivy to get Tuatuas last night. So we had a good feed of fritters tonight. The weather has been very kind since school finished, but there was very heavy rain last week. Indeed our visitors had to abandon planned trips to Whangarei and Kerikeri because of flooding.
Farm news: the fields are growing well after their cut and the later rain. There is plenty of grass for the stock to eat. We have been all on "Shag alert" watching to see if Skippy will do his manly business with the 4 girls who are in his presence. We have seen a fair amount of bottom sniffing and even a bit of kissing, but not the actual event. We are fairly hopeful that this year we will get some lambs. Our neighbours Don and Ivy have had their ewe, Ginny, over with Skippy in the hope that he will give her lambs. She went back to their today. Handling her and No14 who is another large white sheep, reminds me how awkward sheep can be. I am determined to go down the Pitt Island route as they are smaller easier to handle and are better looking. The disadvantage is that they don't have as much meat on them, but in the round I am pro this breed. I had better dig out some pics so you can see how cute they are.
I have also included a picture of the veggie garden, showing the application of beautiful rich chicken manure straw to a bed that will be used to grow potatoes next year. I might be odd, but I get a massive kick out of applying such gorgeous stuff to the ground and then seeing the sickly thick clay break down into a beatiful humus rich tilth.
