hot-diggity-dawg!

Hooray! We are getting rain as I write this around noon Monday (Sunday in the US). If it keeps up the drought will be broken. And the other positive news of note is that I passed my test and am the proud owner of a (temporary until the permanent one comes in the mail) New Zealand driver's license. I had to jump through some hoops to do this - earlier being evaluated by an occupational therapist and a driving instructor who had to pass me if I was to get the license - and they did and sent a report to my physician who did a physical and filled out a form - this I took to AA (the New Zealand equivalent of USA AAA) - and there took a written exam of 35 questions - you are allowed to get three wrong but I got them all right. You get instant feedback for each question because each of the three or four possible answers has a scratch off box before it - you choose the answer you like and scratch off that box and if it is the right answer you see a check mark and if the wrong one, a big old X. Oh, yes I had to have proof of having had a driver's license more than two years but could not use my current one because I got it last year so had to get documentation from Kansas regarding the initial date of licensure in that state. We got a reply from Kansas quite quickly - thanks to John for calling and getting the mailing address and other related information that allowed us to do that. On the downside my right arm is sore - but on the upside it is gradually getting better - healing does not go as fast once you hit the roaring sixties, I guess. Next adventure will hopefully be a cooking class - I can choose Japanese, Thai, Korean or Chinese, maybe a two day session learning about the Alexander technique and possibly a using your digital camera workshop. In-laws are coming later this week and we hope for fair weather this coming weekend so we can enjoy the beach at the beachhouse we are renting for three days. We attempted to go to a hot air ballon event Saturday but were late getting to the site and the crowd was much larger than we expected so we walked round the field and ambled back to our car generally going the opposite direction from most people and went and got takeout at the nearby KFC. Emily is making progress with her violin lessons. Joseph is going to a three day camp with his schoolmates who are in a particular class called JEEP (I don't know what that stands for but the class is for bright kids) in early May. Carrie stays busy at work. I stay busy at home. Well, thanks for your attention and I hope that all who read this are well and having a good year. Manford