Spring time...

My boys love sleeping in the sun... and we've had no rain all month - and dare I say it we could do with a little.... just enough to get my new grass seed growing again please.

Mum arrives next week for 10 days so we'll be doing alot of babysitting. :-)

Spring has sprung

We headed down to Raglan in September and then again on Saturday just gone... it's now quite warm with a nice cool air early morning and late afternoon. Just my favourite time of the year. It was a bit chilly the day I took the top photo - Raglan is quite a bit cooler than home. The 2nd one though was Saturday and I was too hot in that coming home. Had to put the air con on - aka the vent.

Yesterday we met Shawn and Carlos and Micheal and Carole for breakfast at Andiamo in Herne Bay.
We got there earlier than the booked time of 10.30 (and we'd already been to the hardware store to get some drain guttering stuff for the front of the float park which is getting concreted at the end of the month)... so we decided to get a coffee at the French Boulangre, George snuk in a croissant too as they are very authentic here.
This is my iceplant - I got it a year ago at Mitre 10 in Helensville and stuck it straight in the clay - I have to get some more. We see it from our bathroom window.

It's been a month since my last..... blog

Contrary to what the cats and horses think - Quite a lot has happened...

• It's stopped raining!! The paddocks have dried out.
• We've sprayed the weeds in the orchard.
• We harrowed the track paddock and sowed some more grass seed - it was a bit pogged from the hard life it had this winter.
• I've been titillating my float as it's for sale... had someone come look today - they seem very keen.
• George has had to mow the lawns twice so far this month.
• He sprayed the cobwebs outside with 30 seconds - and it did nothing so don't waste your money on that stuff.
• A baby bird fell out of (or was pushed) out of the nest in the washbay ceiling
• The swallows have two nests on the house - one outside the single garage, and the other outside the bedroom. No babies yet.
• The plover had three eggs - but something got two of them - a hawk I think.. or rat maybe, now they have one left and it's in the round pen and taking ages!!! Still sitting on it they are. I shouldn't care as they are squawky bloody things but it's sad when the hawk lands and they are 'screaming' - it's horrible.
• I've booked to get concrete in the bottom of my hay shed and float park - yay.
• New float should be ready any day.

This iceplant I got at Mitre 10 last year and planted it straight in the clay - amazing how well it's doing - but do you think I can now find anymore?

We babysat Carlos last weekend (or was it the one before) and had a big walk round Herne Bay, had some lunch and back home again (his home) while Shawn and Tracy went and played tennis... that was fun. I didn't take this - just thought it was cute though.

We have Dante 2 - he lives in our orchard.... he's a Birman... he runs away if you get too close...hopefully he'll chase our rabbits away too.

The citrus are going crazy!