End of Term

Well that's it for 2 weeks! We have got ourselves to the end of term 3. Been getting my head round NCEA marking of the senior mock exams. As well as getting my head around becoming "Associate Junior Dean", my head is ready for a break from school work.

Other pressing matters are piling up demanding attention. There are the goats feet which need another pruning. The veggy garden needs starting if we are to get much in the way of veg this year. I want to make a salad and herb bed on the back lawn and a larger plot down on the chicken field. That is the bigger job as there needs to be a fence to keep out all the animals that are partial to veggies.

We reckon that one of the bantams went this week. We ate the wyandotte cock last sunday. He was a bit tough, not surprising as he spent most of the last few months chasing hens and mating with them brutally. The hens seem a lot calmer without him around. It would be nice to get some chicks to start growing into future Sunday dinners. Not too sure what happened to the bantam. It went about the time of a big storm last w/e. We had 100km winds, with trees down in town and the roof of the timber mill blown onto Pukepoto Road. Plus a lot of damage at Ahipara. Eric reports seeing a harrier flying off with the bantam in its talons.

On a happier note, the ducks have taken to the pond enthusiastically. They have a stoat proofed house and have been out in the open with no protection for a night already. They are not always keen on going into their lovingly made house every night. So far so good and we still have 5 of them.

Election wise, I am not sure who is going to run the country yet. And I am not the only one. Labour have a slight majority on the main lot of votes, but a load more "special" votes have to be counted. Then all the smaller parties start horsetrading over who they will support in government and what their terms will be for that support. We shall see what the outcome is .... obviously.