Hey peeps.
Well life continues to be largely chilled down on the farm. I'm gaining confidence with the horses and learning lots which is really cool. Have hooked up another wwoof place down in Wairarapa region for 23rd feb to 1st March- another smallish lifestyle farm with young horses who need handling and bringing on. So that's something to do between Waiheke stints.

Kim gets here today which will be cool, we can start our tandem wwoofing adventure! Sure to up the hilarity levels!

Went on a 7 hour round trip to Dargaville yesterday with Michelle to pick up a piglet. We had thought it was was gin g to take 3 hours so a bit of a shock. The piglet was very sweet but terrified. He pooed in the back of the Jeep almost as soon as we got him in and so we had a horrendous stink in the car for the 3 hours ride home. Managed to keep our spirits up and laugh about it. It was good to experience the lows as well as the highs of this kind of lifestyle. I think on balance it's still pretty amazing.

I've been riding Opo more and getting my confidence up there as well. Let her go full speed yesterday in one of the paddocks and she is incredibly fast. Elise is going to have so much fun with her as she gets more confident. We are thinking about taking her for a big run on the beach, that would be amazing!

The puppies are really growing and super entertaining and sweet as ever. 2 are on hold to buyers and of course there is lots of interest in them. I'm sure they will go to good homes though as Michelle and Nick are very thorough with vetting potential owners.

I've been making some jewellery with new materials. Du-kit, which is a polymer clay like Fimo or whatever, and comes in loovely colours. Glitter and confetti letters- I've been making sparkly multicoloured pendants with lyrics embedded into the front and back. Hoping to sell some of them on Waiheke. It's nice doing different styles of jewellery design and learning about different materials.

Well I'm gonna go as not had brekkie yet!

I've put up some more pictures up on Picasa, will try to link to here soon xxx