4 of us cleaned 5 houses in 5 hours and didn't even feel as if we had worked. That'll be the many hands...light work proverb. Certainly works. Mary's friend Hayley is helping now as it was Sarsha's last day and we will need some help without her great work ethic and enthusiasm. Hayley is a cool farmer. She is 43, tall and strawberry blonde, 4 kids and turned up in a flat bed truck covered in mud. She has land up at Haast where they put the cows in to the wilds and then muster them out with their calves in March. They have to take the horses over in boats and it takes 3 days, a lot of dogs (they usually lose one or two to rivers and injuries) and they stay in huts. Coooollll! Her daughter Jess is in Finn's class.
Spook dismantled our bikes and fitted them into the box he has been keeping at work specially. WE need to work out what else we want to get in there - what we can do without now, and what we can do without for a couple of months at home. We will need to beg and borrow bikes for a while.
Then Spook went out on his road bike to the Treble Cone road end. This photo is a view out to The Mount Aspiring National Park. We are hoping Spook and Finn will get their father/son bonding day up TC next week. Meg and Spook are having their father/daughter bonding day in Queenstown tomorrow.
grateful for:
Finn for difusing the situation when I was telling Meg off for bossing me about. He was lying on the ground drawing. He glanced up and said ryely "Welcome to my world" and carried on drawing.
Meg managed to difuse her own situation when I told her she needed to get some mung beans into her for her good health. She stuck up them up her nose with the sprouting bits hanging out for ease of extraction.
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