Busy As

Sorry I haven't been here much, but I've been busy. What started out as a fairly leisurely sort of year has accelerated at a frightening pace. Its nearly half over & yet again , there are so many things that I haven't done yet. One thing has happened though that I am very proud of. My blog entry entitled "walking the line" has been published in the regional MN society newsletter & National headquarters has asked permission to publish it in the national news letter. I'm happy about that. If someone else in similar circumstances can draw solace from it, then I will be happy.

We had a week up North with some very dear friends last week. This is the view from the lounge of the apartment at Paihia that we stayed in..
Pretty awesome huh? From there, we got to see all sorts of beautiful boats & people up paragliding. Grant & Annette spoiled us rotten & it was lovely to have a few days away from responsibility & decision making. We took our boat up with us & had a lovely day exploring the harbour. Grant & Annette also took us over on the car ferry & gave us the Cooks tour of Russell. So amazing to actually be in a place where so much history happened. The only slight disappointment was that some individuals decided they needed our fishing gear more than we did & helped themselves to it by dark of night. Always assuming that you are literate & may someday actually READ this, may the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits for eternity. You have cast a blemish on a place that is just absolutely entrancing & are now in possession of a treasured rod & reel that was bought for me as a present by my darling wife more years ago than I care to remember.

So we are home. It's a bit of a shambles here at the moment, because this is happening.



Hopefully it wont be like this much longer. The cabinets are as finished as they can be, the dishwasher is sitting in the lounge, the vinyl is going down tomorrow & Friday & I have finally finished all the damn painting... YES !!!! Now I can finally start to catch up on all the things that have been neglected since we started creating this monster, like lawns, firewood, gardening, weeding, compost..........