Saturday I picked up Michelle Hudson who returned to Matamata after 8 weeks of touring around NZ. Michelle spent 2 weeks recharging her batteries here in early March. She is on a world tour, following roughly the same route as Bloo so they catch up every so often, like here, now.
With Carol safely ensconced on the other side of the globe we felt it was safe to light fires on the drive again. Yesterday afternoon I rallied the troops and I lit a few, strategically placed and busied myself cutting back some large bushes outside our bedroom window. I looked up slightly shocked to see Bloo and Michelle with a raring fire that reached up into the trees above, at approximately the same place that Carol started 'that' fire of hers. All I could think was 'Thank God Eric is down by the barn' (with his chainsaw still wading through the blue gum), he'd have thrown a fit!! Well he did amble up and hardly said a word. Not fair! If it was me he'd have gone ballistic!! Anyway I left them too it and carried on in my little corner. I should add that we don't just light fires for fun, we are trying to burn the heaps of tree debris that lines the drive.
Harriette went off and climbed a very large tree stump in the pig-pen paddock (ie the paddock next to where Bloo and Michelle were). She perched herself on top ie about 8 - 10' up, and looked very chuffed with herself - which was the point at which I walked off and told her she could get herself down. I later looked down the drive to see Harriette dangling from the stump, her buttocks firmly supported in Bloo's upstretched hands!!!! Personally I'd have left her! There was all sorts of manoeuvering until she was finally helped to terra firma. It was quite amusing to watch.
As darkness fell we came in for the traditional Saturday evening pizza's before that game of TP. It had been an incredibly hot day.
Went to bed, after the afore mentioned TP, with all the curtains left open (something we never do) in case that bright orange glow should appear in the sky again! TP was good fun. I had decided to give up chocolate as I have overindulged somewhat this week and have had awful headaches, when Michelle arrived with a box of Favourites and another of Celebrations yesterday. Well they came out and you know me, more chance of fly in the air than resist chocolates placed right under my nose. So I ate most of them! Still had a headache this morning! TP questions from the mid - 80's really make your brain ache. Add together the fact that I was in a news void (ie S.Africa) for that time and my brain is well on it's way in that process of atrophy, I had no chance. Bloo was also too young to answer a lot of the questions. It was therefore a very slow game and after 3 hours lost it's charm and I was desperate for my bed!! Eric won in a sudden death play off!
This morning Eric and Harriette went to feed out and were taking AGES. They finally appeared through the gate on the top of the drive, from the paddock, with Harriette driving. That's why they had taken so long, she'd obviously wangled a driving lesson out of him.
After a cooked breakfast on the deck I went back to the drive and carried on burning, 6 fires today, as Eric mowed the drive with the sit-on. Well by morning tea time it had started to rain. Quite amazing as we have had no rain for about 6 - 8 weeks. I came up and did some baking (fruit cake and fejoa muffins Carol) and decided that, as the rain seemed to be getting heavier, I would blog instead. Eric went back out to strim as I'd moaned that he only ever half does the job when he does the drive. He only got a little wet!
And so, here we are, Bloo and Michelle jigsawing,
Harriette and Eric doing Meccano. Harriette was told she had to do it, more to justify Eric playing with it I think! Michelle is off to a friend Katrina who is a horse trainer for the week. She is doing a weeks work just for the experience and as she has time to kill before a friend arrives from the UK. And she'll start the days at 4.30am!!!
Alice will be returned later today by Mandy after they have dropped Adam (their eldest) off at the airport. Adam is off to France for 2 weeks to help build a racing yacht. No a bad experience for a 15 year old. I hope he has a fabulous time!
Must phone Mom and Daddy tonight and if this appears with photo's it means Bloo has successfully instructed me how to do it (or he's given up and done it himself!)
TTFN
Michelle
xoxoxox
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