s e v e n i s a j o u r n e y

Was there a time when the weekends were free? If so, I can’t remember it.

Anyway, Tam took Friday off, thus using some of her accumulated ‘days in lieu’. After sleeping in (ahhhhh) and a nice big breakfast, we decided to do a photo shoot around the property. We used to do this more regularly, but as it takes 2 or 3 hours (or more) to poke about and take photos (including from the top of the hill) and investigate nooks-and-crannies, it requires a free day, and those seem to have disappeared on most weekends. Friday evening Geoff, Beth, Mikhail and Richard came over for the final four episodes of Hellsing. The ending left me feeling a bit unresolved. I wonder if they ever did a second series, or if those questions were just left hanging forever? Anyway, it was a fun series with some interesting characters, and Arucard demonstrated just how frightening a powerful vampire could be. He puts everyone elses “powerful vampire” ideas to shame.

Saturday we drove up to Palmerston North to the first Fiber Day meeting. This was coordinated by Dianne, the woman who shore our ‘paca a few weeks ago. She was there to educate us about our spinning options, and to organize a load to go off to the mill and be spun into yarn. Very educational, and very good that someone is getting the ball rolling for DOING something with the fiber that otherwise stacks up in bags. We held off this time, as we have very little fiber, and mostly of what we ave is the wrong colors for the batches they were organizing. Maybe next time.

Sunday morning I headed off to fight practice for first time since before Christmas. Fighting was fun. At least the farm work keeps me well conditioned even when I am not fighting regularly. I have decided to start practicing double weapons- a sword and axe combination. This is very entertaining so far. The rest of the Sunday was spent mostly flobbing, which was nice.

Tonight we have to give vaccinations to the ‘paca, which should be fun. I wanted to do this a week ago, but the box of vet supplies just arrived today. Hard to do injections without needles or syringes!