Greetings from Manford

Season's greetings. I hope all who read this are well and happy. We live in a house without screens on doors and windows, and recently have been plagued with many flies who are not attracted to the fly strips Carrie hung by the window with care but like our bodies a lot. We may get screens, or some UV fly traps or some Venus Fly Traps or ??? Will let you know. I thought you would be interested in what kind of news the Auckland New Zealand Herald delilvers - headlines from Dec 26 on the front page were NZ study finds way to diet and stsay thin, 1 billion shopping spree to keep rolling on, a picture of a sealion on the beach with the heading just lion around on a day of beach bliss, all night bus ride to sing the message of Christmas, and inside, stealing a march on mall rats, officer uses education to change taggers (graffiti artists), teen falls 6 meters down blow hole. They do have an international section that is following the us elections pretty well. No comics! Sports reporting on rugby and cricket that I do not understand. Ah, well. I am to get an OT assessment to determine if I can drive ok and will let you know how that goes. At summer gathering (see Carrie's latest post) I walked a lot and got athlete's foot on the left one but not the right. Otherwise it was a positive experience. This month we are working on getting stuff organized and will decide if we are going to park one or two cars in the garage and what else we might do with it if we don't. My Parkinsons medicine helps me move better but can't tolerate more than 1 mg of Requip at a time - more makes me sleepy and feel weird. Charlie and I are bonding more. Next month we start obedience lessons with her and me and Carrie. Has anyone seen the movie Once? or read a book Antarctic Navigation by Elizabeth Arthur copyright 1994? They have Manford's stamp of approval. Replies or recommendations for other books or movies can be sent to manford_barber@hotmail.com. Well gotta go. Take care. Manford