Spring is racing along. It started with a bang and the temps
felt more like summer. Then it rained and there was lots of snow on the
mountains so the air temps dropped again. Spring is always quite windy, but
this year seems windy more often.
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| Spring colours and the new bark on the slope |
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| view from my office desk. new gravel bed. snow on the mountains |
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| Bonnie checking out her new walkway |
The garden is springing to life and so is business. We have
had a busy off season putting together new tours and a new website. We also
have a new business partner, Jo. She did some of the tours last year and now
she is more involved. www.wheeliefantastic.co.nz
will let you see what we have been doing.
Lisa is almost back to full health, after whooping cough she
got in July. She still get some coughing fits, but very minor compared to what
it was like before. She can now cycle quite fast with no ill effects.
I finish school on the 5th Dec, which is the end
of term and the school year. At this time it looks like I won’t have any
classes to teach next year.
We are going to both take a week off work in December,
before we go into ‘summer lock down’. We have booked a couple of nights away on
the west coast, at a place called Westhaven Retreat. It is only a couple of hours
drive from here, but it looks very different.
Today, it rained this morning, so no bike work. We took the
chance to go surfing. It was fab. The water isn’t cold (we did wear shorties).
We had the beach and surf to ourselves.
