lost insulation

Where have I been? 

I've been everywhere man. 

Well Northland (again) and Hamilton is just about everywhere.

The iconic Waikato Times cow wearing cheap nasty Wharehouse gumboots.

Where's the Perths????

I was away a whole week and it seemed like forever.

Boy was I glad to be home in my own bed.

Back home where the lambies roam

and the new kittens play on the road.

 We still haven't sorted out names for these wee boys.

Any ideas?

Mags is going for Munty

in a misguided attempt at being a fan of Outrageous Fortune.

While I was in the Waikato I went to Ag in Action

and sat on the back of this tractor with Casey

(one of our new NZYF Field Officers)

and the nice man,

his name may have been Barry

or not.

He drove us around the Ag in Action field days looking at local

Young Farmer Club hay sculptures

and he also scored us free ice creams

which was great cause it was very, very, very hot.

My favourite was this header or combine harvester

Very creative and what it's harvesting is empty beer bottles and it's producing beer crates.

This in no way resembles real life use of headers.

 I loved this cow slash buffalo headed sculpture from Te Kawa West

(free bale of hay to anyone who can tell me

where Te Kawa West is exactly).

I love the way she is chewing her cud.

That's the grass hanging out her mouth there.

 And Ngarua's saggy tractor was fun.

But the real reason anyone was at Ag in Action was for

the tractor action.

A crop farmer's heaven this was.

Grunty tractors dragging grunty equipment

and you could jump in and play with all this stuff!

By 'you', I don't mean me or you either, probably.

Wearing a skirt to these things kind of negates any serious attempt

at scamming a test drive.

That and the fact even a naked Playboy bunny

wouldn't get a second look

or a first for that matter when there are tractors to play with.

Can I get an amen to that Farmer's Wife???