Week 38

Today is officially the start of spring. The fruit trees are all flowering and looking beautiful. While I didn't particularly like the coldness of winter, I am loving the spring and autumn colours. We never really had deciduous (sp?) trees in Wellington - the wind would have blown the leaves and the flowers right off them so what would have been the point.

But with springtime also comes spring storms. This week has been rather windy but not too much rain, and chilly enough to light the fire a couple of times but definitely not as cold as winter was. One day I was a bit worried the wind would take down some more trees, but it didn't. It's been coming from the west, which I think is different from the big storms we have had. More wind is forecast for the rest of the week as well.

I haven't done a lot of work on the farm. Have trimmed back a couple of hedges, something I've been meaning to do since we moved in.

Got kept awake half the night last night by a cow mooing. Not in our garden this time (although it sounded like it was), and not even in our paddocks or even in our neighbours paddocks. It was mooing till at well after midnight. I wondered if maybe it was calving because it was definitely upset about something. No sound from it tonight thank goodness.

-M