And 6 makes 13

Yes I can add up. Eric has been fretting about Olympia for 3 days now, convinced she is carrying a litter of dead piglets, especially as half of Octavia's clan have been pushing through the dividing gate and suckling off her. This afternoon though his worries abated when we discovered she had produced. 7 piglets, 1 dead. She must have farrowed in the preceeding hour or so but the little buggers were full of beans climbing all over each other to feed. Poor Mum didn't move, she looked shattered! They look exactly like the other litter (didn't have camera - sorry). Robyn was going to pop up this afternoon to see litter number one but was not able to get away from the farm (nearly 200 calves born so far and almost half was through). Such a shame, if she had done she probably would have seen them being born. Anyway we ohhhdd and aaahhhhdd at them in the fading light. So cute.

I have just sent heaps of photo's to Japan. Miwa spoke to her parents yesterday and got her email address so we could send some off. She was adamant that this one go.....



We went for a walk along Waihou River today between Tirau and Putaru for those who have any idea where I'm talking about. It was very pretty but we had to turn back after 35 minutes because of mud. I though Eric had said it was a board walk and so we had not taken gummies, however he meant the walk was indicated on a board at the start - dohh!!

Yesterday was netball for Harri, then we picked up her friend Courtney as they had some science homework to do (they are comparing how fast bananas and carrots decay under different storage conditions so the house is littered with pairs of said items with DO NOT EAT in marker pen on them. It was a gorgeous day and I halped Eric down by the barn clearing some of the felled gum tree. Eric had hired a log splitter for the w/e and as he split logs I lit a big fire and burned branches. We made a huge dent in things and the paddock looks a lot tidier as a result. Eric still has the main trunk to split but we have a huge amount of wood with what he has already split. I also planted some cauliflower plants I recently bought. Today I did not get outside for long after the walk as I also did some baking with Miwa and we made lemon curd from Robyns lemons. I did mange to repot my lemon tree and sort the hanging baskets though. I did want to get a fejoa tree and jasmine planted but ran out of time. Oh, well next week is another w/e!

Big Happy birthday to my neice Emma, 17 today. Next year you'll be a real growded up person.