raising a pergola

On Saturday we went to a friend's place in Tauranga to help her build a kitset pergola. There were 5 of us all together. It was suggested that it would only take an hour or 2. Six hours later, 5 very tired people were sitting under it. The instructions weren't as clear as they could have been. Of course they had been translated from Chinese, so that made it very much more difficult. I wonder if Chinese have trouble with kitset instructions translated from English. I imagine that they have a good laugh at the funny way the translation has been done like we do. 

It was supposed to be fine, but that conspired against us too and we got rained on. Corina went and found some very thin ponchos, that she had for something and Eddie wore her work raincoat. I had considered taking our raincoats, but decided against. Next time I will listen to my inner voice. Probably not. ha ha.

Yesterday we had a quiet day. It was tramping day, but I decided not to go. I still felt tired from the day before. I did a 5 K walk in the afternoon instead.

Yesterday was such a nice day and got to 25 degrees in the afternoon. Today it is blowing and quite cool. Only 14 degrees at 2 pm. I guess it won't get much warmer now. It is suppose to rain and the clouds are quite thick. Spring weather can be quite strange.

I have planted some tomato seeds. They have sprouted and looking very happy in their little pots. They only have 2 leaves so far, but they should be growing well soon.