Week 12

Monday 2011-12-05

Damo ringed to tell he had an ankle injury and perhaps would not come this week. Perhaps only drive the mule? So we went out together and started pruning on the ridgepaddock. We started where we stopped, near the Tuliptree. There is a heap of branches growing.

Tuesday 2011-12-06

Again pruning on the ridgepaddock and some labelchecking in the oakpaddock. We are waiting for the sign to order the new labels. Hope that will be soon, so that we can place the right labels on the right trees. In the afternoon I replaced several protections in the ridgepaddock. These trees are waiting for a load of chips.

Wednesday 2011-12-07

Dick took away the dead trees in the oak- and the ridgepaddock. Did some other work with the chainsaw on the ridge. Near the Leptospermum and the Metrosideros on the ridge we pruned a lot of branches. So those trees have a little more light and space and it is easy for mustering.

Bob Berry watching the Castanopsis delavayi, full in flower.

Thursday 2011-12-08

Dick had a lot of things to do in town and went out early. I took the mule and went on the ridge. Did pruning on Leptospermum squarrosum and on a Photinia close to the Zanthoxylum. There was an awful lot of dead wood in it. In the afternoon I repared some protections and pruned some trees on the northside of the ridge. One of them, a Castanopsis was flowering and did have its special smell, not the perfume I like. At the gate of the ridgepaddock the three Walnuts were smelling much better and are looking much better now.

Friday 2011-12-09

Again pruning on the ridge. Now Dick did a lot with the chainsaw. He made a little track along the Embothryum. And he did a lot of mowing.

Saturday 2011-12-10

Bob and Anne are around, Bob wanted to see some of his oaks and other trees down at lake Karangata. So we went there with him. We did have a lot of questions about names of trees, so we had to stop several times. We learned many names and can put labels on several trees now.
Damo was around and did a lot of mulching on the ridge. In the afternoon Dick helped him.

Bob, Diane and Dick watching a tree, probably an oak

Sunday 2011-12-11

Sunday was a Sunday, We didn’t do anything, we had a day off. In the afternoon we visited Damo. He lives on the Noble Camble road. From his verandah we had a beautiful view on native forest. In between we could see a little piece of the Tiniroto Road.