A lovely week

We have had a lovely week here on the farm, it has been busy beyond belief but we have enjoyed ourselves immensely.
We have been working on a new wood lot up on the back range, it is a long high ridge so we have beautiful views while we are working. We have 6,000 seedling trees in that lot and they take a bit of caring for, I have to admit to finding muscles I didn't know I had.

The girls are finally settling down, it was nice having Bear here a week or so ago, he helped settle the girls and oddly he helped me a lot, it was nice to have long talks with him. He also laid the law down on Jason to slow up and spend time with us girls rather than never be home except at night. He is such a workaholic now it was worrying me, but he has slowed a little so I shouldn't growl to much at least now we do see him during the day.
He is so determined to do well on the farm and that is why he puts his heart and soul into every minute of the day. But having him around the house has also settled the girls down.
He even takes time out in the morning to help school the girls, that lets me tidy house  and prepare meals then I take over the schooling mid morning; so we are getting ourselves into a nice routine.

This weekend we had about 20 neighbours here for a BBQ meet and greet evening and I am so happy to find that we have the most awesome neighbours, we all had a beautiful evening which finally finished around 2am on Sunday morning with a number of bodies spread around the house sleeping on chairs, settees, floor and even cars.
Sunday was very quiet in the neighbourhood.

This week Jas and I bringing down the sheep from the back lot for shearing and preparing for stock sales.

We are starting to feel the effects of the big dry up here, not nearly as bad as those poor souls up in the north Island but some of our pastures are starting to look the worse for wear and we are starting to feed out already.

Well Jason has just popped his head in, this morning he is going up to Rangiora to pick up his younger brother Kyle, they will back later today, I am really looking forward to catching up with Kyle.He wants to help on the round up with the sheep so that is awesome.
 He has turned into a very interesting young man, he also seems to have a long train of female followers in Rangiora and Christchurch so Jason thinks a break out into "boondocks"  with us will do them all some good.

Well I best go see to the girls schooling, so please take care all.

Anne