This month has brought us our first taste of a real winter, with several frosty nights of -6 degrees followed by single-digit temperatures during the day. We added extra bedding to the chook pen and they were fine with the cold, though by morning their water had an ice layer about 5mm thick. It has still been very dry weather, just cold, though that is potentially going to change over this weekend and through next week. I'm so grateful to have a warm, cozy house to spend the winter in this year.
In other news, I got a job! I'll be calf rearing on a farm 15 minutes away, starting in August, on the same farm where my dad has just started working. It will be great to finally get back into things after two years of frustrating unemployment.
We had a lovely family road trip to Christchurch on the weekend, taking the scenic route up through Rakaia Gorge. Such a pretty place!
Tomorrow is our last night of dog school before the winter break, starting up again in the spring. I'll miss it but it's almost too cold to be out there now, so it makes sense why they don't keep going through the winter. A couple of weeks ago it had dropped to 1 degree by the time I got back into the car after class. Brrr.
I'll leave you for now, with this video of our "team training" agility at our friend's property last week. Always a great time!
