I’ve finally finished posting the pictures from our North Island trip! Now to catch up on the photos from around home. Here are the rest from January.
After a couple of four wheel drive trips, the boys’ trucks were in need of a wash. Miss Joy happily helped operate the power washer!
James spent more time working on his sleepout. This was the day he started cladding the outside.
The boys cleaned the carport and garage. They decided it was time to get rid of this old stationary engine that had been sitting there for about three years. Simon wanted to restore it and get it working again, but finally gave up. Elijah listed it on Trade Me for a $1 reserve auction, and it went up over $250! The next challenge was to load it on the buyer’s truck. This was the test run with the tractor-mounted crane that Simon and James built to hoist cattle they are butchering. It worked, so when the buyer came to get the engine, that’s how they lifted it! The engine had wheels under it, so it was easy to get it out of the carport, but too heavy to lift by hand.
We went to Nelson Creek for a baptism one Sunday afternoon, and of course the children wanted to swim.
See what James has on his feet to go swimming? They were actually very light-weight boots, full of holes so they didn’t fill up with water.
I think this was taken down at the river.
Little Miss wanted to make braided bread, so Esther helped her.
Part of the second hatch of chicks. It’s so fun to see them hatching!
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