In Waikato, we are experiencing the hottest weather – 32.9oC on January 29th 2019 since 1998-1999. Back to 1973, the small town – Rangiora was the record break 42.4oC.
For the Waikato area, the highest apparent temperature was 35.7oC on the 29th January 2019, and the humidity was 96% on the 28th January 2018.
We, in Eureka, have to be careful with our water supply from the tank when I do watering the garden including the vegetable gardens. The method I use to watering on one part of the vegetable garden including the rose garden and the greenhouse on an even day. On an odd day, I wet the other part of the garden which less garden and plant cuttings in many pots. we were lucky to have a back up bore water hole with a hand pump next to our water pump hut. One thing that we DO NOT have a swimming pool here.
In our property, we were lucky to have plenty of tall and large trees like liquidambar, silk tree, English Oak and many other types of trees growing here. I often sit under the liquidambar tree which shape like an umbrella (upside down shape) and the breeze come from the north. Here is one of the old photo here – the liquidambar tree stands gracefully behind the white flowers of the viburnum tree.
Now I can use our two dogs sits beside me for a short time without distracting from the private road. Before we used to have three dogs and I was forced to leave them inside the house with a courtyard which fenced off. The main problem was the neighbour who came from England and bought the house and another small sleepout back in 2012. From the start we moved here, this neighbour – Ali, rang the dog control officers because one of our ex-dogs jumped over the fence and greeted them in a friendly manner. Ali got the wrong message, and she won’t change her view over our dogs as working/assistance dogs for me who I am deaf over four years. Ali and her husband Gary kept ringing up the dog control officer. Things have changed because we lost one dog on a one early hour of the morning several weeks ago. Everything is so strange and calm.
Our neighbourly – many farms are using waters for their livestock, maizes, to fill up in the drinking well for the animal and other things. Some of the neighbours have got a swimming pool. Not of them have plenty of large trees in their farmlands.
So we are bracing for a long hot drought already, and we noticed the neighbour’s farmlands have gone brown or light brown.
Life in Eureka 