[Ag-eq] My latest purchases

[Jewel]

One of the online retailers with whom I deal is a very good one called "OffTheBack"  [New Zealand
only].
I have bought a few things lately, amongst them being a 3 deck greenhouse [a tiny one of course], a
piece of exercise equipment, a Sherpa Stay-Dry Hiker's Jacket and, lastly, a quadcopter drone. the
greenhouse, and the exercise thingy are still to be assembled by a friend, while the drone is being
assembled as I write.
re the drone:  I won't be able to use it myself, more's the pity, , but I thought that Keith, my 
neighbour who
keeps an
eye on the sheep might find it handy as, when lambing time comes, he could check on the ewes without
leaving his bed.
He was a little leery of my suggestion as he had heard that he could get in trouble for using
one, but I explained that as long as he was only flying it over my property, and not taking voyeur
pics of the hippies down the street who were paid-up members of the au naturale set, he would not
get into trouble, and the ewes wouldn't be lodging a complaint about them being spied upon in their
outdoors maternity ward.
Unfortunately, it will only fly for about 10 minutes before falling to the ground having run out of
puff, and then spending another 100 minutes being re-energised, but I guess that 10 minutes would be
adequate as the BlanchRanch, surely, must be the
smallest ranch in New Zealand: perhaps the only * ranch as our big cattle spreads are called
stations or runs.

Jewel