Long W/e

it is tuesday night and we haven't gone back to school yet.
This has to be the definition of stress free - a long enough w/e to have a whole day for farm jobs, a day for rest, a day to go out for a trip and a day to get ready for school!
So Friday we lay in and did very little. Some of us had a go at a 24 hour fast, just to remind ourselves what it is like not to eat. I found it hard at times but cannot say I really felt hungry even after 23 hours without food.
Then we killed a fat lamb to be ready in tme for Easter.
We broke our fast with fresh liver and kidneys and belly flap mince burgers. Scrummy!
Up early on saturday to carve up the carcase that had been hanging overnight. Stuart and Eric had done the skinning and gutting, but only surfaced in time to see the meat go in the freezer.
I am getting more sophisticated at butchery and used a saw to cut the ribs and back bone this time.
We did farm things and were going to go to Diggers, but their fert truck ahd arrived so we satyed at home. good job as our neighbour Bob turned up with his tractor and mulched the fields. The grass was getting long, but was nowhere near as bad as last year when it was over my head.

Easter sunday was another day of changing plans and I ended up doing very little apart from cooking for friends. We made them work for their tea as one of the Pitt Island ewes had flystrike for the second time and we had to catch and treat her before we ate.

Monday was lie in time and I actually went into school to get some work ready. eric and I had an epic fishing trip to our favourite place. I caught a large kahawai on the first cast and we had another 2, a couple of snapper and eric even hooked a huge stingray. I had to take over his rod as it was heading for China, stripping line off the reel at a fair rate. I managed to get it back to the rocks, but the line snapped as I lifted it in. Probably a good thing as we werent sure what we should do with it.

The weather broke today which was an ideal way of making me get stuck into my pile of marking and prep. Chan was back at work, so we had a boys day at home. Snapper and kahawi for tea.

Back to school tomorrow. Pictures will follow. The rain has stopped so off to check on sodden sheep. Stop press: Skippy was very "interested" in Nippy the ewe. Did you know that a ram's penis is about 18" long?