Rainy, rainy days

We're socked in with rain. Today is our third day. Poor Kiwis: this weekend is a national holiday, Labour Day, and they had today (Monday) off, but the rain started first thing Saturday morning after a gorgeous Friday and hasn't stopped. Lucky for our neighbourhood we all have those tiled roofs, so you hear the rain right when it starts all the way up to when it turns to drizzle. And then it starts again.


This is the view out our side window looking toward the Centre of New Zealand from where you've seen gorgeous photos of Nelson. We hiked up there some weeks ago, it's a great spot.






Because I had that job interview on Friday, we moved to Saturday our plans to drive out to the Marlborough Sound, visit that serene part of the country, and do a little hiking and exploring. We got as far as Okiwi Bay (about 1.5 hours drive) and stopped at the bay, and decided that those clouds were coming right at us. Best to cut the trip here and head back. That was two days ago now, we are glummy gusses.


So no cool pictures to share ... other than we finally got a lawn mower--a push mower to cut all 20 metres of grass--and Don was able to cut the grass on Thursday, it was soooo long and the weeds were clearly standing taller and taking over. Our neighbours had stopped speaking to us. This is the side yard, I took the top two photos out the window you see there.



This is the front yard, before cutting. I did manage to plant 3 herb pots last weekend.







So, we resort to cute pictures of Olivia. Here are two. Isn't she the cutest snuggle bear!