John and I may not exactly be Gene Kelly or Judy Garland, but we were definitely singing in the rain this past weekend. Tropical storm/cyclone Lusi hit New Zealand, delivering much needed rain to our area.
Although we'd had a great Christmas period, beautiful weather interspersed with decent rain every few days (much to the delight of all the farmers), this weather pattern stopped in February. I was surprised to see how quickly the land dries up at Struan Farm without any real rain for a week or two. Scary, really. I've been spot watering in the gardens in the evenings, giving anything that looked a bit stressed a decent drink. The sheep are being moved around the paddocks where there is still some feed. But we've needed to get rain and hopefully some grass growth before winter sets in.
Although Struan Farm hasn't been as dry as some of our surrounding areas, we were very thankful to Lusi!
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