This is more like it!

Loving this pic of today's weather from MetService - we'll have more of this please!!

The driveway paddock is dry enough to take the tractor down with the trailer and bring up some branches for firewood. Already getting wood up for next winter, takes so long to dry it out properly. Seems odd to be bringing up wood while we are still having fires (having said that, someone had one last night while I was out, and it was so warm he had to have the door open...). But nice to see the woodpile growing again instead of shrinking.

Tried to hire a rotary hoe for the vege patch today but the one we needed was out already - the other options were an industrial sized one half the width of the vege patch or a tiny one suitable for hoeing a flower bed outside your lounge room window. So have booked the mama bear middle sized one for tomorrow morning. Will head out later and get some seeds and seedlings ready to go. Have a nice pile of horse manure festering ready to hoe through and then bring on the sun!

Had a good ride on Choc yesterday, he is still wearing his best behaviour pants although was a bit distracted because there was a third horse in the arena (my mate Ellie joined us with her boy Spyke) and Choc being a social butterfly was quite keen to just go hang out with him. Fair enough they haven't seen each other for probably six months and Spyke is a handsome bugger!

And because no post would be complete without an udder update - no change in the udder today really, for all the udder fans, I promise there will be more photos when there's more to show.