Brigitte’s autumn hideaway

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In New Zealand we celebrate the beginning of Spring with the first day of September.

In October the farmers and veterinarian will be busy with lambing.

This lovely sheep had her lambs much earlier.

I enjoy the warmer days for small walks not far away from our house.
This by example is a way up to a summit.

The broom will be covered with yellow blossoms soon and is so high you can’t see anything.

On the top you can catch a glimpse of snow by the faraway mountains.

We have no snow down here but instead a lot of blooming trees and flowers
Our garden is full of interesting animals like this live bearing ‘copper skink’ which can be found only on the North island of New Zealand.

Our rabbits are also developing great and Fluffy is one who we take inside from time to time. He is Aileen’s favorite except for Anna of course

We enjoy the last days of winter and are looking forward for an exciting Spring

We have a lot of rain at the moment… since 3 weeks to be exactly… but that can’t stop our kids from playing outside…

… they have a lot of fun in the sand pit…

… and even use the hose to make a waterfall!

Today we had a few moments of sun and a beautiful rainbow showed it’s lovely colours over our place.

David and Aileen went to a mushroom hunt in our ‘wild corner’

There are a lot fungi on tree stomps…

… but also on the ground like this orange cuties around my yarrow

The biggest surprise today was this little patch of mushrooms I first thought might be puff balls…

… but look at this!
This are lovely white buds (Champignon in German and Agaricus bisporus in Latin) growing in our little forest!
Yum! What a great lunch!

Little David is a busy boy…

… and always wants to help Daddy.
They made a storage for the fire wood today.

David was hammering hard and after finishing his work he did want to help Daddy with a real adults tool…

… but sorry David, you have to grow some more years until you can handle this…

Goodness me I am really far behind blogging on our family blog!

So much happened lately and I try to catch up…

As you know we have some cute baby bunnies.

We had a sad moment went we lost three of them on a weekend. Click here for a link to Benny’s post.

I am glad Aileen’s baby bunny Anna survived.

We take her inside as much as we can to make her a lovely pet.

Not all night visitors are that bad like the one who killed our three bunnies…

… Christoph called us out one night and showed us a hedgehog wandering around in our garden

And Jonas found our first possum on a tree! It was high up on our poplar

Our march was wonderful with all the fairs and trips we made.
In Martinborough we saw this cool Pizza truck.

It was an amazing fair with hundreds of booths.

We also made a visit to a Steam festival in Featherston!

David made 9 rounds with the little steamy and Aileen was her happy self in the jumping castle

Before the cold comes we will enjoy our weekends in the sun with some more trips