We had blazing sunshine this morning, now it’s snowing this afternoon. While living in a winter wonderland is lovely, it’s quite cold right now. These pics are taken from inside - if you want exterior shots feel free to come over and grab them yourself :-)
The lawn and surrounding paddocks.

The car in the process of [...]

You can tell it’s winter on the farm because the old and precious ponies get pampered in the stables at night. This is early on a sunny morning as I come to take them out to their paddock for the day. Daemar and Simone have it pretty easy if you ask me.

Here’s the pile of [...]

These ten beauties are our new beef calves. They are Angus Charolais cross and should prove to be both chunky and delicious in another 12 months or so.

I was hunting through the recipe books for potato recipes as we seem to be eating them for every other meal to get through the glut (it’s a tough job eating seasonally and local, but someone’s got to do it). Frittata caught my eye and as I worked my way throught it I realised we [...]

It was quite cold last night - we had a fair bit of snow. To our Auckland friends, complaining about the frost all I can say is “harden up!” :-)

Morning gave us a beautiful view of snow on the Tararua Ranges.