Tuesday, October 20, 2020

TUESDAY ALREADY

The time has just flown.  Of course, Saturday was a momentous day here as Jacinda was re-elected.  I gather our electorate had the closest result with the incumbent National Party candidate having 179 more votes than the Labour Party candidate so it will be determined by the Special Votes and we will not know the final result for another ten days.

On Sunday we were quite tired after all the rushing around on Saturday getting the trailer sorted but we did get some seeds and seedlings in the ground.

On Monday we went on the Parkinson Walk in the morning.  It was the same walk Doug and I did alongside the river last week although we went as far as the Falls this time and came across this little fellow who appeared to be on his own.





When Doug and I did the walk last week we only went as far as the swing bridge.



After the walk we always go for a coffee and chat and then Doug and I went into town to de-register the trailer.  There was a very long queue of people mainly for driving licenses.  Anyway, we were told that a cheque will be in the mail for the money I had paid for next year's registration which surprised me as cheques seem to be a thing of the past and the payment for the trailer was made directly to our account.

By the time we had sorted it out it was nearly 1 p.m. so we decided to have lunch down at the Town Basin and then had a couple more jobs to do including taking my phone in for repair as it has been shutting down.

We were both shattered by the time we got home.  Today we did more work in the garden and I discovered that some of the lettuce seedlings that I had planted  had been attacked by birds.  This is the worst one.  I had just been talking to a neighbour who had this trouble but as I planted these seedlings in amongst other lettuce plants that were o.k. I didn't think I would have trouble.




In the afternoon we went  to get some grain for the birds and timber before picking up my phone which is now working properly.

We also had a phone call asking if we wanted some more firewood (it was 24 degrees C. today) but we said yes and it will be delivered in the morning.  So tomorrow will be spent at home (hopefully) apart from going across the road for a cuppa with a neighbour who is turning 90.

8 comments:

  1. Twenty-four degrees and firewood hrdly seem to go together!

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    1. It is good firewood for next winter (be prepared)

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  2. I was cheering for Jacinda also. Well done, NZ.

    Please pray for us in US. We are going thru the worst of times and our election is in two weeks.

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    1. Arleen - you are in our prayers and thoughts. We follow the news from the U.S. and I also follow blogger Octoberfarm and her Dump Trump messages. As well as that we watched the first part of a documentary on Trump at the weekend. (I think it was the weekend - one day recently anyway).

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  3. You're lucky to get a refund. We'd just lose the money here. Hope those birds fill up on seeds and don't eat any more of your seedlings

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    1. Yes, although I will believe it when I receive it. It did not actually renew until today so that was in my favour. The lettuces now have a net curtain draped over them.

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  4. We are going to get a full load of firewood for next winter soon, and so good to get that result. at
    the Waiariki electorate , Tamati Coffey has to wait for special votes, but Labour has exceeded anything I thought would happen. Well done, how does Jacinda keep going, I have long forgotten what I coped with at her age.

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    1. Yes, Jacinda is amazing. In spite of that we were surprised that so many rural areas went from Blue to red. Good to get the wood nice and early

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