promise

Hi. If anyone still takes a look at this blog from time to time, my apologies, and I PROMISE to try harder to write more often. Right now I will say: look for a new post during the last week of any month. I hope all our readers are well. I got an e-mail from a nice person who said, "Robinson Crusoe was the only man to get all his chores done by Friday." The rain here has eased off, and that large, bright object in the sky once more appeared. I am working as a volunteer at a local school for developmentally delayed children, it is called the McKenzie Centre, and the staff is just lovely - lots of smiles. Right now I am doing dumb work, like scanning in stuff to help reduce the amount of paper present. I had to get a new fuel pump for the BMW, as it was starting to just quietly die (at which time I would think, is my hearing getting worse, has the car suddenly become quieter, what is going on: then, energized by the opinion of the car(s) behind me, expressed mostly with honks, quickly put the gear shift into park and turned the key and lo and behold it was no longer quiet - especially with the cacophony of hoots behind me. Well, spring break is over, and it is back to school, where Emily sometimes struggles with social behavior issues (gee, I have no idea where she got that machine gun she brought to school, headmaster; or the other interestingly labeled stuff!). Joseph goes about his existence pretty quietly. I hack and snort. Carrie coughs. We walk, talk and breathe down here pretty much like when we were up there. Carrie has gone to Wellington twice, and Melbourne, Australia once. Her mom may come for a visit, and so, too, her dad. All are welcome here. Items of greatest scenic value stay largely in the South Island, but there are certainly opportunities for visual pleasingly sights here in the North too. What are some favorite spots you readers have visited. Would you like to go back. I would like to visit Berlin, and maybe Venice before it sinks, and Madrid. Take care, gentle reader. Manford