The weather has been hot and sticky this week. We found a slightly deeper hole in the river to soak in one day. It was very refreshing. It was a 5 minute walk, so by the time we got back, we felt we needed another soak.
Tony cooked dinner for us last Friday. Alan, Tony friends who are staying here for the weekend and us. He did a fillet steak on the spit. I made a salad and Tony did some corn. It was the nicest corn that we have had all year. So far it has alll been dry and not very nice at all. It was nice to hve some juicy cobs for a change. The steak was absolutely delicious. Tony's friends, Jill and Barry bought a cheese cake and ice cream for afters. We had a pleasant evening.
On my walk on Thursday, the sun was shinniing through the trees. I thought it was rather lovely. It was looking through the trees to the Remutaka range, but they didn't come out in the picture.
It was suppose to be thundery and wet on Sunday, but nothing happened. Just heat. It got up to 33 degrees in the van and 30 in the awning.
The eftpos machine went off line on Sunday afternoon. It still wasn't going in the morning. It turned out that they are having problems with the internet here. Spark is supposed to be coming to fix it on Wednesday. We have got it on our wifi until it's fixed.
We had a thunder storm on Monday morning with really heavy rain. Matt said we had about 30 mls in a short time. The sheds flooded up over the pallets. Luckily, Eddie moved the paper towels into the wheelbarrow before it got to deep. The water flowed along the camp road beside us. A little tributary flowed off the main "river" and flowed into the old stables. When Eddie went out, it was midway up his calves. It drained away quickly and then he swept out the rest.
Tony planted half a dozen swan plants a few months ago. We have never seen a monarch butterfly since we have been here and neither has he. Out of the blue, we have monarchs flying around. His little plants have about 10 caterpillars on them. He is quite proud of them. We do wonder how they find the plants. One of natures mysteries.
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