Greetings to you all, I think we have been hibernating indoors during this strange weather. Once again the weeds have taken off and yesterday I was doing battle with a wisteria that had gone berserk and ditto with a clematis which seems full of growth.
Today, oh joy! weeding or ironing, what fun.
We had a family funeral Monday last week and on Saturday our grandson got married, meant to be outdoor "do" but misty rain, so fortunately we were able to move indoors to a converted stable which is now a chapel. So a week of different emotions, but the wedding was a happy one.
Better half is just mobile, and a tour around the garden using various seats is about all he can manage. General health good though.
What did you do for Waitangi day? We did't do anything special, somehow it just doesn't seem worth getting up in the air about. Get so sick of the rubbish on TV, why do they give them the time? Good to see what others are doing to enjoy the day, in other parts of the country though.
I am busy with all my Monarch butterfly caterpillars and crysalises , have about forty crysalises indoors, and more caterpillars on branches indoors, to keep them away from the Asian wasps and praying mantises which kill them. So am out there several times a day checking for more caterpillars.
Yesterday a fledgling thrush flew into the garage workshop and roosted up in the loft. Today I opened all the doors, the roller door and a small window up in the loft and he seems to have found the way out, as it is all quiet, its distress calls were worrying me, and Harry the cat was greatly interested as well.
Well enough of the nature stories, must get on with the motley and go out weeding. Beloved is still easleep at 8:47, generally gets up around 9:30.
Love to all, what are you doing?? Tansy

hi tansy an skip,,i have such a boring life, so i wont write about it..i did have a good weekend a couple of weeks back, went to new plymouth and dined at marbles restuarant...so much food..eyes to big for my tummy...went to the ta whiti museum at hawera.. that was neat, not stuffy like our museum...lol....

In my humble opinion Pep, that's the best Museum in NZ, including Te Papa!

After the vintage car rally I got a ride back to Feilding, on the Traction Engine! Bounced and full of soot - but Bliss!

oh wow skip..i bet that was amazing....i enjoyed the show...and it was really neat when the cars came out to our suberb to say goodbye.,do the car owners get paid for putting on a show like that....i hope they got something out of it

AFIK no, however I have no doubt flexibility was built into supplies :-) i.e Sponsorship!

Dear All,
I think we have all been caught up in the work which summer brings, tho must say this autumn has been more like summer, our plum tree thinks so as it has leafed up again after the wind and is in blossom!! We lost all our stone fruit to brown rot, no doubt due to the humidity and the strange weather. Our feijoa though has been as good as ever. Our tree is a giant feijoa one, the fruit reminds me of hand grenades!!
Have had several months of being head gardener, general factotum and general handyman . We have had the house insulated, and the two trees brought down that were whipping the power and phone lines about, what a relief. A passing stranger , whom it turned out we knew, offered to take all the branches away for firewood, so apart from a rake -up over the lawn, I had no work to do. It is great to see out of the kitchen windows again, with the demise of the neighbour's wattle trees in the storm.
Better half still waiting for his op, despite written pleas from GP to GHW. HIs hip condition is severe but he is still down as semi-urgent. In himself though he is feeling heaps better and eating again thank goodness.
Is our hospital still called Good Health Wanganui? You think it would be called bad health, that's why you go there.
Hope you are all OK and ready for winter. Flu jabs and all. Better half had the jab and also the pneumo-vax one, since he had pneumonia in summer. Cost $60 and worth every cent.
Love to all, Tansy

My flu jab Friday. I think Summer was postponed. I didn't get a day off during the school holidays! What's home? I don't think I get much time to spend there. God thing for me about that blow, the neighbours lost their fence! More sun for me!

Hello Skip,
Guess we are going to get some welcome rain. It is the wind I don't like.
Don't talk to me about fences, our back fence borders on a kind of lifestyle block. Bloke grazes cattle, there is little feed so anything green is a target for them to hone in on, so our back fence has taken a battering. Area obviously overstocked. When better half gets back to full health, some repairs will be needed. We are never bored!!
Great to hear from you. Tansy

Rain Scheduled for Friday & the Weekend, but doesm't look like much!