Too the camera for a walk round last weekend. saturday was squally showers, but Sunday was a stonker. Calm and sunny.
We harvested kumura on Saturday, Se the pic below. The largest individual tuber had a mass of 1200g! Monsters. We have been enjoying lots of kumura soup.
The interesting structure is Stuarts "shed". He is laerning hands on about building on hills, the cost of materials and how to complete work. Dad can talk .. I spent a good bit of time working on our new outside toilet. Not quite finished.
The fields have grown a good crop of hay this year. It rots into good soil, or can be cut and thrown into the chickens where it makes awesome black compost.
At the front of the house we are growing some trees up to soften the view of our neighbours who have constructed a huge mound on their front lawn. We call it Mount Taranaki! I wonder what they nick-name our overgrown garden?
We have been busy as this week. Seniors on exam leave and we are all fighting off autumn bugs with varying degrees of success. Mists in the morning and cold starts give way to clear warm days. It ended up being 18C here today, after a chilly start.
I shall endeavour to take some human pictures this week in case you think I have done away with the family.
Shocking to hear all about the Cumbrian shotgun murders. I went walking in that area many moons ago. Just goes to show that beneath the surface lurks all sorts of angst. I was moved to see the Guardian pictures of bodies all over covered with blankets. The police have a horrible job to do.
