We spent the majority of the morning in the caravan because it was raining so hard. All the trenches in the flowerbeds were full of water and the butternut squash were swimming in the trenches. Dave worked on writing lyrics for a song he has been stewing on and I started writing this blog for most of the morning. Such a dreary day, but its great for the garden so I really can’t complain.
The rain stopped for a bit round 1pm and Dave’s friend from the wood shop, Steve stopped by and invited us to a BBQ. This was very exciting since I have been a bit stir-crazy. Steve said he would drop by around 5:30pm to pick us up and we didn’t have to worry about making food cause Baz and Panyaranka had it covered. (Baz is another buddy of Dave’s from the woodshop and Panyaranka is his wife).
Since the rain stopped, we had a beer while we walked through the orchard and collected lichen for the composting toilet. On our way out, I noticed that THE SEEDS SPROUTED!!! At least the lettuces did!!! So cool!!!! When we got back in the orchard, the river was so high it nearly reached the top of the bank and was flowing very rapidly. The orchard was most beautiful and Dave took me through some parts that I had never seen before. Lovely.
Around 2, I went into the house to upload some photos on the computer of my time in NZ so far. The internet is a bit slow, so it took over an hour to upload 88 photos. Dave’s mom, Kathy is very sweet and kept giving me glasses of wine while I was working on things in the computer room. Dave stayed down by the caravan cutting down bamboo and sizing it to make a trellis frame for our cucumbers and watermelons. Very exciting. It started pouring again, so I stayed up by the house, and had some nice conversations with Dave’s family while I waited for the rain to stop.
Steve came by round 5:30pm, picked us up for the BBQ at Baz and Panyaranka’s house. We had an awesome time. Panya, is a sweet Thai woman who is a teacher at the local college and former elementary teacher. She told me when to put in my resume for relief teaching and said she would put a word in for me at Pukepoto Elementary. Yay!!!! What a sweetheart! Panya also cooked up a beautiful feast for us. There was wild rice with fish soup, shark and tomato curry, as well as a beef curry with little squashes, stir fried rice vermicelli, tuatua fritters, (which is a little shellfish that Baz collected from the beach), sausages, pork shoulder steaks, salad, garlic bread and I think there were a few things I am leaving out. It was amazing. Baz and Panya’s 2 children were very sweet and well behaved. Steve was there with his partner Jan, his nephew and his wife and their 3 children. We all laughed at the kids playing, especially the little 20 month old girl nicknamed, ‘Hurricane.’ She was the most confident little child I have ever seen. She would jump on the table, scream some nonsense, look around at everyone’s faces and laugh so hard that we were getting kicks out of her performance. She loved the attention.
We got home around 10 and went to bed by 1030. zzzzzzzzzzzzz
Here are some Arugala seedlings that sprouted earlier this week!
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