I'm sure I've blogged more recently than the Haitape Hill one at the top of blog at the moment!! Maybe I've blogged in Word and not loaded it onto the site. Need to check my USB sticks!
In brief, polytunnel is up and has pumpkins, courgettes, lettuce, radishes, beetroot, strawberries, beans x 2, various flowers, spinach, peppers, chillis, tomatoes and herbs growing. Eric has to put doors on this weekend as the temperatures have recently dropped. Very autumnal at the moment. Really cold mornings but gorgeous when the fog/frost clear and in tee shirts by lunch time.
Good Friday today and the girls have started their Easter hols. Harriette plans to join the gym and go as much as possible over the next 2 weeks to boost her weight loss efforts which are sluggish at the moment and that's being generous!! Alice probably has no plans but reading and computer use for the next 2 weeks! I actually have 6 days off. On the Tuesday I am off to Auckland to pick Mark and Cheryl up. Well actually Harriette is driving up!!!!!!! M+C are here to sort out housing and schools prior to their move here. We are sooooo excited. Mark has a job with Fonterra in Edgecombe near Whakatane, about a 3 hr drive from us. Their trip co-incides with Olivers 18th (Cheryls godson) and his mom Mandy's wedding to Ken on 18th April in Taupo. Brilliant timing.
We have had Alex and Ted with us for a few weeks. Alex is one of my friend Nicky's many sons! He and Ted are on their OE's after uni. They spent a few weeks with us and are now apple picking in Hawkes Bay on our friends Steve and Liz's orchards. After that they are heading off to the South Island and coming back here in May prior to their departure for Fiji I think.
Harriette has her first senior school ball in June. She went shopping for a gown 2 weeks ago with a girlfirend and found one she liked. Last Friday on our way to Raglan we called in and bought it. She looks gorgeous in it but you'll have to wait until June for photos. Whilst there I was just looking around the sale racks and found a gorgeous plain red dress which fitted perfectly (size 12 :-) I was delighted when I bought it. The dress was $170 reduced to $90 but the store had 30% off everything so it was only $60!! Harri's dress was also 30% cheaper so it was a good trip.
Generally, we are busy with the autumn tasks of woodchopping (remember we have over 20 trees felled late last year) and the usual fencing, leaves clearing etc. Although very pretty I do not like this time of the year as it heralds the onset of winter and that means I am going to be cold for much of the time for the next 5 months :-(
