Working day for everyone, so we just took some photos of the work situation. What I do at A and B is not of much interest, but the journey from A to B is worth a look, especially on a lovely day. I love the long dirt roads around the back of Wanaka, which lead to this newly built farmhouse. There is a lot of cleaning in here, but that is it finished now. Mary has been told by physio not to use her arm as it wont heal if she doesn't rest it. Sarsha paid $115 to be told she has an infectious rash and bed bug bites. Her partner doesn't have any, so we wonder if it is all the big piles of dirty sheets we lug about.
Meg hated me taking a picture of her cleaning the floor of her pretty little kitchen, so I had to wait until she had finished. The wide road and mountains was taken at 3.15pm just before I drove past the school, which is out of sight down the road a wee bit.
Meg hated me taking a picture of her cleaning the floor of her pretty little kitchen, so I had to wait until she had finished. The wide road and mountains was taken at 3.15pm just before I drove past the school, which is out of sight down the road a wee bit.
Spook, well, just as we think the sun is setting on his NZ experience, we decided to leave him behind for a while longer. It suddenly made sense for him to remain here to pay off the bond that we owe for leaving early. As it is the family that make living here so expensive, we intend to find him a sleepout, and let him eat noodles for 10 weeks. It is $340 rent for this house and $300 for food, so he could spend that on the bond each week and pay it off in no time, train his butt off and enjoy a beautiful spring. I'm not really ready for NZ to end iether and if we leave him here, there will be a piece of the family with more than a toe dipped in. If we all stay, we don't have enough money, if we all come home, there is no way to pay the bond without using our savings. This way, he gets a 10 week adventure to top it all off and still has all our expenses for coming here paid for. His boss is delighted with this compromise, so we all win and the children and I have to view it as another stage in the adventure. We were already planning to be 5 weeks without him when we were coming home for a holiday, we just double that time and have him as a Christmas present. As long as his sleepout is not too comfy and he doesn't get too used to the bachelor existence.........
grateful for:
our strong relationship and independant natures.
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