After a week of windy, cloudy, threatening days and a few showers, we finally got the promised stormy deluge of rain, rain and more rain! It was a torrential downpour for hours with a rising water level around the house, even on this hill! Thank goodness for the buried drain that takes water gushing from under the deck to the driveway drain!!
Twelve hours later and it has dawned warm, sunny, clear skies! Such an incredible growing season for autumn! I’ve never had tomatoes flowering in April before! They just keep on giving! And the new broccoli and silverbeet seedlings are loving it too!
On April 1st we had our first dairy goat mating of the season, putting elegant Myfanwy (black pure Sable) to dairy boy, Grover (white pure Saanen). Excited for lots of doe kids in early September with any coloured ones able to be registered as Sables now! Myfanwy is the first of 11 does that need to be mated this month! Our herd register bucky boys, ArohaGoats Crwys (purebred Nubian) and Caran Grover, are going to be very satisfied!!
Meanwhile we are still trying to dry off our big Saanen milkers as they enjoy this spring-like grass growth! No milk shortage here!! We’re all set up for a fabulous Easter break in our wonderful sanctuary – blue, green, brown eggs and all! Wishing you a happy Easter too!
