Even amongst the drought, fires and smoke, life still goes on and we’ve been blessed with some new little ducklings.  Our ducks decided to make their nests in the garlic patch this year.  We’ve just started harvesting the garlic so we’ve moved these littles ducklings into the garden patch…this should be a little duck heaven for them.  Hopefully they’ll eat all the slugs, aphids and grasshoppers!

Indian Runner Ducks

We were also blessed with over 20mms of rain over the weekend and after just a couple of days we started seeing a tinge of green growing back in the grass…it’s such a lovely sight.  Hopefully we’ll continue to get some more rain over summer.  Here’s a picture of the green tinge coming back in fields, and the before and after photos.

Grass is turning green again

Dead grass

After a few days of rain

We’ve still been managing to water the gardens throughout the drought and when you see things blooming it makes it all worth while.  I’ve never seen “all yellow” sunflowers before…that was a surprise.  It’s a race with the bugs to get to the strawberries first.  The apricot tree is producing even though the leaves are looking a bit wilted.  The kale is hanging in there despite the hot weather.  We have quite a few baby feijoa trees growing which are still standing strong (can’t wait to have feijoas!!).