So, I now have new brakes all the way round, a reconditioned engine, and finally enough gardening work locally to survive on. All I have to do is last long enough to get the first few payments from the work now.
I spent the morning splitting firewood, and water blasting a verandah in Collingwood, I’d promised Jenny I’d be there last week, but without the Pajero it got to a lot of promises and me not turning up, so it became today.
I had Tuffy with me, he wandered around a bit at Jennys, but never that far he was out of sight, and I had my Swandri on the ground, for him to find if I went elsewhere. He’d come back, sit or lie on the Swandri for a bit, then go exploring again. Once I started water blasting, he was more than happy to play in the mist from the blaster, so I had a wet dog for a while.
Took him to Collingwood beach before coming home, so we spent an hour or so walking along the beach, with him chasing seagulls and oystercatchers, without going into the water.
We got home about 4pm, it is now 7.30, and he hasn’t woken up yet. Considering he is only 8 weeks old, it’s been a fairly long active day for him.
I’m working at Pah Road tomorrow, digging over the rose gardens and pruning back the overgrown shrubs and climbers, then Tuesday/Wednesday at Rockville, Thursday/Friday at Kaituna, Saturday I’ll go up to the Naked Possum and start clearing up around there.
The weather has got a decided cold feel to it this week, all southerlies coming up from Antarctica, bringing snow again. There is some discussion of it reaching as far north as Auckland, which hasn’t happened since I was growing up in Otahuhu, a long time ago. Then it was snow on the Bombay Hills at Pukekohe, now they are saying the Hunua Ranges.
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