So it is still sitting in Takaka waiting for more parts. They are hoping to have it fixed by tomorrow now. In the meantime, I haven’t been able to get into work at Long Plain Road, I’ve had 3 more people ring and ask me to do their gardens and lawns, I’m 2 weeks behind with the ones I’m meant to be doing as well.
I looked at hiring a ute or similar, but the cost worked out to be more than I earn at the kiwifruit, not so much on the daily charge, although that was $68 a day, add in the insurance, and my insurance cover only covers rentals hired through their affiliates, not the cheapest ones, and it all got to the stage where I’d be owing money despite going to work.
Still a couple of good things for the week.
If you go back to December, I was trying to get into the Naked Possum and work on their native plant Nursery, but Grant ended up being diagnosed with terminal cancer, on top of the stroke he had a year ago, so that was all up in the air.
Grant died a month back, and Jocelyn wasn’t sure what she wanted to do, but after some time settling back down, she’s going to carry on with the Naked Possum, and lease out the various parts of it, while she retains the managing role.
http://www.nakedpossum.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Naked-Possum/124965522507?ref=nf
I’m leasing the nursery side, it is going to be more producing the plants here at home, and taking them up there, and selling through the retail outlet. Although there is a fair bit of work to be done there as well, the gardens have got a bit overgrown, and the capillary beds are in a sorry state at the moment.
Still, a bit of gardening, some clean up and a few more plantings, it will come back.
They sell mostly Rata, Meterosiderous umbellata, as part of Project Crimsom, to replace the trees that have been killed by possums in the National Park at Kahurangi, and for people to plant on farms and around houses.
That all starts from October, when Jocelyn is having a Spring Opening, I have to have stuff ready to go there by then. I’ll be buying in growing on tubes, and a lot of 1 – 2 yr old potted trees for a while, Jocelyn said they were buying the trees in at 18” high, for $7.50, and retailing at $18, I’ll be having discussions with the nursery about how many for how much as soon as it is all signed up.
The other bit of good news, or maybe not, I don’t know how I’m going to feed him, but anyway, this is Tuffy, he’s 8 weeks old at the moment, Sheepdog/Labrador cross,
I pick him up as soon as the Pajero is back on the road, hopefully this weekend. He was on trademe, free to a good home, and the people who have him live at Collingwood. Sue actually had her Uncle and Aunt live in my house, they had it built and she used to stay here. So it was a bit of local knowledge and from what she said, I got good references from the people she asked around here. Lord knows how big he’s going to get, but if the last Lab cross I had, Samoyed/Lab, was anything to go by,
he’ll be getting a lot of walking to stop him getting too fat.
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