Further flood Fotos :) and latest Fernside Frolics

To add to the Cust Creek photos below, we went down Lineside Road today (3 days after height of flood) to view the paddocks down there. Lineside Road is the main road from the northern motorway through to Rangiora. Here are a few pictures of the "Lineside Lakes".

We brought Carlisha (6yo Mystical Shark out of the now defunct Laura Jayne) home from Bevan Heron's last Saturday. For a late start mare, Bevan has done a good job breaking her in. She has a cough so we've kept her apart from the others but as Bella goes just where she wants, she joins her every now and then. At this point the idea is to syndicate Bella (Bossy Looker officially, 3yo trotter) and Carlisha as a package and give them both a go this season. Bella will go to Bevan and Carlisha to Grame Lamb. Looks like Julius Caesar fillies will have to go to sales as we need to lessen stock and get some income from the breeding.

A Wonderful Fernside Winter

As many who have either experienced NZ weather during the last week of July 2008 or have seen or heard of it on the news, here's a couple of pictures of the local "Terrain" taken this past week. Usually the Cust Creek is just a creek (and I often drive through it on my way to work) or, in Summer, when the dodgy new dairy farms are irrigating, it has little to no water in it at all. These two are photos of it taken yesterday, actually 2 days after the height of the floods. We have called it "Mini Mac" (apologies to niece in Wellington) as it looks like a mini version of the Waimakariri when a Nor-West has brought rain and/or melt to the mountain catchment area.