Roast duck again

Success on the hunting front, another 2 ducks. So last night we enjoyed a roast duck with roast potatoes, kumara, peas and gravy. Yum.
I think today is the last day of the game season, not sure if Graham will go out and try his luck again, it is still quite wet and windy, but apparently this is good news for duck hunters as it means the ducks fly inland for shelter.

The wild weather continues..

Well last evening we had torrential rain, hail, thunder and lightning and then a power cut. Luckily we have a good strong generator, so Graham started that up and we had lights and could power our water pump for water out of the taps. I went to bed early but I think the generator also powered the computer for a while. The power came back on for a while then out again for another while.

This morning there were a few things blown about the place, covers off things and water gushing over the drive from the dam, washing the gravel off. Also we had a river running through our apple orchard! Here's a picture taken at the bottom of our land (it's wetland but usually just a trickle runs through).

I don't think we've ever had so much heavy rain in one hit since we've been here. And I've yet to plant the garlic, the ground is now well and truely saturated.

Wild weather

We're getting some wild weather here on the West coast of Northland. Probably the most dramatic thunder storms I've ever seen, and some heavy showers. Yesterday we had some hail too. The ground is soggy, the limestone drive has been washed away in places and a few things have blown about the farm (bags and buckets etc). But the cows just keep munching the grass!
The water tank is getting topped up too which is great as we were down to about 3000 L again as it had been quite dry for a while.