With autumn upon us, the abundance of red and bronze leaves for my
grand daughter to collect, a huge full moon & a non- animal circus in town,
being 5 is the best!
Being a “grazer” she isn’t finding too much to pick at, although the
strawberries turn up a ripe one occasionally. She is testing out the best
of the leafy greens, & actually likes the water cress rambling through the
lettuces. Peas and beans are “mmm.”
Our old dog “Angel” is no longer with us, so it is safe to drop a few possums
on the ground around the persimmon trees to bring in the hawks, scaring
out the birds. In theory it works well, once the hawks find them, (if the wild
pigs don’t drag ‘em away ! ) The last pig caught by a neighbour in here was
a big ‘bruiser’ giving us over 40kg of meat. It needed two men to drag it out
of the bush – he had rooted around the trees to the point where I was putting
out ‘things’ to scare him away (didn’t work.) Now to get his very timid wife!
So far Saturdays have been kind to the Kaitaia Market, raining in the
afternoon, leaving the mornings free to swap & sell. I come home with some
wonderful goodies scored from swapping produce, & we don’t intend to give
up this traditional right !
Last night the lightening & thunder cracked & boomed in & around the house,
the geese are still gabbling on about it, rejoicing in their survival.
With wild pork (that stole our mac nuts, apples, feijoas, wild walnuts,
persimmons etc,) a wood burner with wetback, heaps of firewood, bronze
foliage, big moons, gravity fed water & plenty of preserves, who can ask more
more?
Krissie