It was reported in the paper today that the sun shone for the first time in Alexandra for 5 days! Which was just as well, as people have been getting a bit grouchy with all the grey skies. No wonder Kiwis have the biggest canabis habit in the world.
Wanaka certainly returned to it's beautiful self. It is actually quite easy to forget when you don't see the sun shine on it for a few days. Not that it made me grouchy. Spooks phone made me grouchy though. I had just dropped off to sleep after a long period of wakefulness when, at 4am, it called him out. Unfortunately it was his boss's phone and the call-out was for Nelson - 10hrs north. And Spook didn't know how to respond properly, so it continued to call out for about 4 more times, before he finally turned it off.
So it is quite a tired Spook on his birthday.
I was on a builders clean today. It was nice to be in an ordinary house, for ordinary people and we did the clean in one day. Tomorrow we move to a 6 bedroomed house with 4 bathrooms and big living areas and loads of windows!!! Sigh.
When I got home, I had a very quick turn around to grab a coffee and get changed to go and pick up Meg and her Kahu Youth Group mates, and take them to Oakridge Resort Hot Pools, in the hope that they will not turn to alcohol and crime. They needed a spare car and pair of eyes and I drew the short straw. I had to sit in a pool of 37degrees and try not to cramp Megs style. When I got too hot, I moved into the larger swimming pool of 35degrees. The palm trees were back lit by the 'thirsty brown hills' of Otago, and the pools gave off more and more steam as the sun sunk in the sky and the temperature dropped. It was not a bad way to end a day of cleaning. I'm only sorry that the birthday boy couldn't join me.
grateful for:
the moments when I feel comfortable living here, as if it were normal. And that feeling I get when I come round the corner and see Lake Wanaka in the late afternoon sunshine.
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