Wednesday 25th November: Another very hot day, up to 30 degrees again.
We did some more pirates today, and the boys drew their pirate captains and gave them a name. Edward called his Bob-Henry-Thomas the 6th-Shiver-me-timbers-1B428-Pyjama King. School in England told me he lacked imagination!
We all managed another 5 laps of the paddock. While we were there a large bird flew down and sat on one of the boundary posts for while - I managed to get the camera and photograph it before it flew off.
After lunch I set up a hose to water the vegetables and printed off some notices I had typed for the Keas. We have reduced the lambs' bottles from 3 a day to 2, cutting out the lunchtime one. This means that every time they see me after about 2pm they bleat and cry and shout at me!
We dropped Edward off at Ruth's house to practice his piano pieces and drove on to Keas. This week the children were making truffles and practising some songs and a play - all for a trip organised for next week to the old people's home and hospital in Waimate. We collected Edward from Jeanette, who had walked him to her house after his piano lesson, and came home for tea - salmon and pasta followed by chocolate chip shortbread.
After the boys had gone to bed the setting sun was intense as it began to disappear behind the hills. It cast amazing lighting on the view from our kitchen window, which had water sprinklers going to help the grass grow for grazing dairy cows.
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