Firstly, we are doing our first house-sitting gig on a small life-style block in Pukekohe (just outside Auckland for our friends and followers outside of New Zealand).
Secondly, I got caught up in a terrible backlog of online work that was quite exhausting. But more of that in a separate post.
So more about our house-sitting/farmstay camping expedition.
We did a house-sit on a little lifestyle block in rural Pukekohe for the month of September. Life was generally slow for us on this small farm. Besides having a presence on the property, we had a few chores to do that were really easy as:
1. Looking after the water for 13 young cows (or was it 12 cows and 1 steer - I am not sure?). They were on a neighbour's block over the road from us -some days we saw them and other days they were nowhere to be seen so must have on back paddocks way out of sight. When they were close by,they would all come over to the fence for some of our attention. They certainly loved us to talk to them and were totally fascinated with Lulu - kept staring at her with their beautiful souful eyes.
2. Feeding 6 Chickens .... and collecting their lovely yummy farm fresh eggs for our breakfast.
3. Feeding 2 cats who spent the day sleeping in any comfy place they could find. They were totally cruizy cats who pretty much did they own thing in the day.
4. And lastly, doing nana/grandpa duties for 3 children LOL. All we really had to do was to make sure they left for school in the morning and then to pick them up in the afternoon.
Other than those chores, we are free to enjoy the lovely farm environment.
We also got to meet and enjoy time with the other farm animals, a horse called Becky, 3 very frisky and active miniature horses and 2 very quiet little dogs called Molly and Harold.
So life in September was certainly a bit restful and peaceful which was just as well as the spring weather certainly took a temperamental turn for the worst with torrential rain gale-force winds and freezy cold temperatures. Where was our wonderful Northland warm weather ..... gone for sure.
So here are some photos of our month on the farm.
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| Early Morning Mist in Pukekohe |
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| Beautiful day - one of the rare few we had during our farmstay |
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| Lovely green outlook on the farm |
A bridge over a stream on the farm
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| Lulu was not sure at all about these miniature horses |
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| Young one-year old cows enjoying our chat with them |
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| Lulu was always totally fascinated with the cows as they were with her. |
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