MY SCHOOL JOURNAL

Mum got a call the other day while we were doing dishes at home, the man on the other end was quite upset, he needed a key to get on to our farm where we are building our house because there was a FIRE!

My heart nearly stopped! Was our new house on fire?

No, he said it was the grass in the paddock, mum got the farm worker to bring him a key and we waited for news!

It’s really dry in the Far North, here are some links which might be interesting…

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=12298580

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=12303200

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=12302978

There is a drought where we live, it hasn’t rained since November 2019 and everything is very dry, the grass is dead, even the trees are dying, our orchard trees are dying, even though we water them as much as possible, it’s horrible. I put some of our trees out in the lake to keep them alive (they are still in their pots) but the lake is almost dry now too.

All that is left of our lake…

We waited to hear how the firefighters were getting on, finally mum had a call from her friend who flies a he told us that the fire was nearly out and it was not too close to our house….WHEW!

Here are some pictures from the next day….

Burned grass

The fire came from the right.

Our fence is gone…