So many things that really needed attending to by someone other than me was starting to turn into a list.
Then one of my neighbours who does home-handyman stuff for the Island came in for the day.
* First, fix the leak in the roof,
* then: check rest of roof for any nails that had lifted etc and bang them back in,
* put back in place the rubber around an aluminium window,
* cut down three gum trees,
* cut down to hedge height an Oldhamii that after sulking for 10 years had suddenly gone crazy,
* then came the thoughtful-pruning of three shrubs and a climbing rose back to a couple of metres,
* clear up and neatly stack all the stuff he had cut down,
* to finish up by replacing the headlight bulbs to the Island car.
* Total ? 5 hours. It would have taken me weeks.
The energy in the air is left zinging!
Which seems to bring both plus and minus.
Plus. My daughter's twins were born ( see pics on previous post ). And all doing great.
Minus. I tripped and face-planted myself rather badly. But fortunately I am a fast healer. (no pics!)
Plus. The last 3 days the sun has been out and a couple of my "to-do-really-soon" things, I have now got done.
Plus. It seems to easier to get things onto the Island, but can be a bit more of a mission getting stuff off again - one of these being the banana cartons the groceries are delivered in. They need breaking down with a box-cutter/craft knife and packing up first before being loaded onto the boat. Being hard on the back I do put off doing it and the boxes pile up, and pile up, waiting. Today they were done. Two days before this, it was the turn of the two hedges out the front of the house to be cut, ...the hedges at the back of the house next?
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| 25 cartons packed in tightly |
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| The native Kanuka makes a nice hedge |
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