Showing posts with label Morere. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Morere. Show all posts

Monday, November 23, 2009

Misty day in Morere

I will own this - I would have loved it if
Phoebe was as bewitched by these incredible drops and droplets hanging on everything we looked at as if all the fairies had left their jewels out all over the place in some grand fairy jewellry display - but it was just me!








She was much more excited to get on
and feed the neighbour's pigs and cats for him!

Mavis, Hope and Kevin...

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Compost Magic

What you see here is a happy child, knee deep in the piles of 'Brown' (leaves) and 'Green' (lawn clippings), helping me to make our inaugural compost pile, of which we have 11 or so to make over the coming months.

We had a lot of fun constructing our 'pie' with the aforementioned ingredients, as well as buckets of seaweed tea and a large amount of dried cowpats, which I'd mown to the texture of dessicated coconut. It was kind of like making a giant lasagne, only a bit smelly and not too tasty looking. I'm sure all the funghi and thermophillic bacteria were licking their lips, though, as that thing has heated up very well and a day later, it was steaming and almost too hot to put my hand in (did I say that???)

Anyway, this was momentous and exciting for me - almost as exciting as getting the chook dome made.

Cherry Blossom Festival at Morere, Hawke's Bay


On a sunny and warm Spring Saturday 2 weeks ago, we packed up some food, donned sunhats and crossed Tunanui Stream from our place over to Geoff and Yuki Prickett's land to meet them under their Cherry Trees for our very own version of the Cherry Blossom Festival, right here in Morere, Hawke's Bay.
The tui sang loudly, the bees buzzed around the blossom above us and we enjoyed celebrating Spring in the sunshine with excellent company, great food and even a glass of local wine.
Alyssia wandered about delighting in so much pink.









Phoebe wore her sweet Cherry dress, now sized as a top, as she has grown lots since last Summer.