My Journal - week ending 18th October

Saturday
Today we had a quiet day.  We did go into town at one point, Daniel and I, for a walk.  Hes a good motivator.  He likes to chose the way we go and when we got back to the car after only 20 minutes he was quite happy to walk for another 10 minutes :)  

Sunday
church this morning.  Then a kea meeting in the afternoon, to discuss with the other kea leaders from Napier and Hastings about an upcoming trek the keas will be doing.  

Monday Had a walk after I dropped Daniel at school and went to The Warehouse and the library and back up to the school where I left the car via a clothing shop where I picked up 2 new pair of pants in a sale :)

Tuesday
Was only going to have a 1/2 hour walk ended up walking for almost an hour :)  Then went to Mitre 10.  I have set myself a challenge this week (actually it might take a lot longer) to get rid of the weeds around my garden.  They are knee high to a grasshopper.  I was thinking of getting someone in to do it, then decided it would save me money if I did it myself.  So brought a weeding machine and got started   I only aim to do an hour an a day.  Then when I have completed one part am going to use Round Up in the area in the hopes that I wont have to do it again for a long time.  Im not really a gardener, yet I always seem to rent houses with too big a garden for me to manage.  

Wednesday
Attended the weekly womens bible study again at church.  Its had a break with the school holidays and we have started studying a new book - Idols of the Heart by Elyse Fitzpatrick.

Daniels cub scout group have separated from my kea group.  So he went along to cubs tonight :)  We are hoping that the keas will enjoy the meetings now without the older more boisterous cubs around :)  I stayed a while as the needed an extra leader to help cope on the first night back - leader issues not them cubs this time LOL.  The cubs themselves arent that bad really expect they are generally older and play harder :)

Thursday
The high light of today was keas.  I baked purple cupcakes with them :)  Purple because thats the kea colour :)  The keas as an organisation are  34 years old this year :)  It was suggested that we make cupcakes from the organisation and ice them however I knew we wouldnt have enough time so I decided to make purple ones instead.  They were actually brown on the outside and purple inside :)  Billy came and helped which was nice and he really enjoyed himself :)

I also took 5 keas though a ceremony making them official keas :)

My Kea Pack with a couple of parents and my new leader (the man :)) and the ex kea leader who came to help me of which I was VERY grateful as I am still learning - she is now a cub leader :)  

Friday 
Today I worked at the Retreat house cleaning.  There had been 7 people in there and they had left quite a mess.  I was so pleased that the lady whose job I am taking on (shes moving on to other things) came and helped.  It would have been VERY off putting on my own.  A very productive time there though - I made up heaps of beds, cleaned 2 bathrooms and vacuum cleaned the whole house.

I was SO tired and sore (my back, which worries me a bit - seems ok now) that I was in bed by 7 pm hense why this post is going out this morning not yesterday

My Journal - week ending 11th October

Friday night (after Id posted last weeks post)

Billy gave me his 2nd computer (which works SO much faster than my old computer) spent the evening until very late partying to sounds. I have sounds!! :) My old computer sound chip didnt work. I grooved and boogied in my computer chair to Cliff, Ronan and Matt Redman

Saturday 

Got the house finished today :) With the lounge done

one last vacuum through the whole house (Ive vacuumed dust away as Ive moved furniture and completed rooms), took my 2nd car load (this week) of paper and cardboard to the recycling centre and brought new pillows for the spare bedroom and Billys beds.

I must be getting old was VERY tired from last night.  Had too much of a good thing then :)

Sunday

church in the morning and worked at the retreat in the afternoon

Monday

Daniel came home :)  :)  :)  I missed my boy
The boys and I went and checked out the new museum.  

In it they had a pottery exhibition and a computer where you could make your own piece of pottery on the computer and then it was displayed on a huge screen.  This is my piece :)  

Daniel enjoyed this exhibition :)  He had several turns at making a pot :)  I thought they maybe sent to us via the internet as you had the option to leave your email addy - however I havent received them :(  

Next we had a walk (Daniel rode his bike) around town 

and a play on the beach :)  

After lunch we also had a play :)  

faster this way!!

then we went home
Billy carried Daniel some of the way as his jandals broke

Tuesday 
Today Billy did some catch up school work with his reader/writer while Daniel and I did my catalogue job with a quiet afternoon at home 

Wednesday

 This morning Daniel and I went to the library and saw this puppet show :)  Daniel didnt want to make a puppet afterwards so we chose some books instead.  We havent been to the library in ages as I thought I was barred when in actual fact I just had a few fines so well be able to use it again :)

This afternoon we had lunch out and went to Arataki Honey 

what my boys were looking at :)  

 

discussing this wild honey hive 

Billy and I had quite a discussion about these facts
Amazing really!!

ThursdayThis morning Billy did some school work with his reader/writer.  Daniel and I picked up my catalogues.  

In the afternoon we went to Hawkes Bay Farmyard Zoo.   I cant believe we have lived in the Hawkes Bay and never been before - it was wonderful.  We had a picnic lunch then explored :)  

Billy particularly liked the parrot as it said hello to him :)  

As well as petting the animals Daniel also enjoyed the play ground that was there 

so soft 

nosy and friendly

this sheep has 5 legs (he was one of a twin who survived, its apparently quite common)

so special!!  the last time I remember seeing a peacock do this was when I was a child at the Auckland Zoo

Billy reckoned hed put himself in time out LOL  

Daniel went on to write a very short story about this :)

Friday
grocery shopping in the afternoon
picking up catalogues Id missed yesterday
I also made pumpkin butter :)