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I ache. All those muscles that you don't use often, now ache...a couple of hours driving around our paddock on a tractor yesterday did that. Along with a couple more hours on the ride on mower doing the lawns. Nothing votaren and a good sleep won't fix lol. And because he could, Lyall left a happy face in the paddock, about eighty square meters of happy face. Of course the only vantage point by which you can see the happy face is about three thousand feet...hope when the planes fly over (depends what the weather is doing as to whether planes fly out our way or not), anyway, hope the people in those planes have a wee giggle when they see it.

It was great yesterday morning to catch up with Vicki and Brody for some much needed hooning around at the dog park. Boy the river there is just the best, the dogs absolutely love it. Love how the retrievers and the labs just own it lol. Also was good to get some more cat bikkies and dog bikkies at Animates for half price. Any bag, any brand, any size, all half price for the residents of Christchurch. Thanks Animates.

See those groceries? This lovely person asked if she could pop some money into my bank account and I'd go shopping and get much needed supplies to send into Christchurch via the Rangiora Express. So this I duly did. At the front entrance to our two supermarkets was a list of what was currently needed, so I followed that and filled up with Nicki's $200.00 donation. Way to go Nicki!

This morning Donna and I headed up to Sefton. That's about a twenty minute drive North for us. A tiny little rural hamlet. They were having a local fair, with running races and pony rides and highland dancing. Bacon butties by the local school and home made baking by the local church ladies. We had a wander round and brought the requisite fundraising raffle tickets, along with a pumpkin so I could come home and make pumpkin soup. Which I did. There's a dusting of snow on the mountains - snow and pumpkin soup just go well together lol. Don't think the snow will last long, weather is meant to be warm again lol.

See a couple of the Prima team are coming to NZ and Scrappin Patch are hosting them...gotta go to that me thinks!

Oh and off to Hanmer in a couple of weeks. Lyall's work has rented a holiday home up there. All Christchurch staff with their family, get four days, three nights up there. We get the company car and fuel card, food vouchers, entry to the hot pools...as a thank you for all their hard work over the last couple of weeks. Great way to show appreciation.

Have a great week everyone.