Some Lucky Child’s Christmas Presents.

Members of the Levin Menz Shed have been busy making toys for Christmas.  Yours Truly was very proud of these for a first attempt.

RIP Mum, the last of a generation.

Mum’s 97th Birthday 7th April 2013Today we laid mum’s ashes next to Dad’s

Chocolate Éclairs that are hard to beat

Today we called into a favourite Chocolate Éclair shop in Ohakune as we were passing through.  Thanks for the tip Geoff.

YumMt Ngauruhoe (also known as Mount Doom of the “Lord of the Rings” Trilogy) on a clear day.

Description Unknown!

Any avid gardeners out there know what this is?  Searching all our gardening books and Google we have come up with zilch.  It was in the garden of our property which I transplanted into a pot.  Beautiful it is even though it has no name.

Farewell Simba RIP

Tongariro Water!

Now that's interesting we had heard this was coming.

Earthquake and Earthquake Swarm!

Photo: Stuff.co.nz

After the rather large 6.5 earthquake off the coast of Wellington on Sunday, we are glad we now live a way north.

We were both upstairs when the earthquake struck and Dot flew down the stairs to stop the hanging lights and pot plants from swaying. We know that is the wrong thing to do but you don’t think logically when something like this happens.. 

Photo: NewstalkZB

It wasn't until a couple of hours later that we noticed that our Cuckoo clock was on a strange angle and had stopped at exactly the same time as the earthquake had struck at 5.09pm. As all children are now told after the last big earthquake in Christchurch is “ Drop, cover and hold”.

At our AGM last week we were all asked if we could survive by ourselves for at least 3 days with water and supplies. Lets hope we never need to put them into practise.

Since then there have been thousands of after shocks that we have been lucky enough not even felt but of course it would be much worse closer to the epicentre. We must be nearly 150 kms north.