Girlie Farming

This morning Marg and John arrived out in their ute with some very welcome firewood from one of their trees. They also brought along a chainsaw and John went out into Briar's paddock and began cutting up pine branches that had been piled in the middle years ago and which now had blackberry entwined throughout it. He got a fair amount of wood cut before lunch. Marg carried all of it across and threw it over the fence while I loaded the wheelbarrow. Andrew the farm manager wandered over while this was going on and suggested that there was some better wood to cut up out the front of my place under some trees before offering some old totara fence battens that were only going to waste and would make good kindling.

After lunch John did a bit more woodcutting but suggested he needed to return in a fortnight with a smaller chainsaw which wasn't so heavy and hard on his joints. Although he was in pain he did find some amusement in how I organise things round here. The highlight of his day seemed to be when he laid eyes on the temporary fence that I had erected along the back to keep the goats in around the hen house. After he'd stopped laughing he found some of my electric fence standards and stabilised the wire netting a bit more. Honestly you'd have thought no one had ever seen a fence held up by large garden forks with bows tied on the top before!