Cornucopia

New Zealand, land of plenty. All except the bananas were grown locally, but how I wish we could grow paw paws.

Our New Family.

A new family seems to have been started. Elaine's cousin's two daughters, Kerry and Julie, and our grandson Matthew are staying with us for the apple picking season.We now have apples for Africa.This came at a cost though---to them. They had to do hard labour for us as well. Each year we have had two cords of timber off cuts delivered for our wood stoves, to keep us warm during winter. It is always such a bind packing it away into the wood shed. Matthew did it for us last year and the three have done it for us this year. As well as that they cut the top of the giant red wood. We had it cut ten years ago and it has grown so much that it was hiding our morning winter sun.They started cutting the regrowth with a hand saw and Keith our gardener finished the work.Now the three are building a tree house on top in their spare time.