One Week of Work Left!!!!!

THANK GOD!!!!!!

And a few bonuses have happened too!  We had our work do yesterday and I got a certificate for "best ambassador" for the company or something like that, nice to be appreciated, and it came with a $100 Pak'nSave voucher too.  Nice :)

A fella has bought the 4.5 acres behind me (damn him, that was mine to buy!!! GRRRRRR) Anyway, he has a business Ezi-mow and I asked him if he could trim my wind break tree line (they look like pines, but they're not pines, I don't know what they are LOL, but they grow really fast and the neighbours mow up that side of the road for me just because they're freaking awesome neighbours, but the branches on these trees are sort of out of control now the trees are 15 yrs old and never been touched!) so Dusty from Ezi-mow said $300 just for pole saw and ladder and chainsaw which wouldn't get all the way to the top but thats fine, don't need it looking like a squared off hedge, and cheaper than the $1K that another neighbour recently paid for a squared off hedge look!!!!  So I said, yep get it done dude, and he whacked it out this morning, didn't need to go back with the ladder and saw so it's only cost me $140 instead!!!!  WOOHOOO!!!

I made a start on dragging some branches in off the road, cause there is 200m worth there, but the deal was Marcus earns some money by dragging it all in (he's still got a computer to pay off back to me and no job!) so when he got up finally and dared to ask if he could go on his computer it was a "not a chance boy!"  "shall I go and get some branches in?"  "Well that would be smart thinking!"  So he trundled off and 15 mins later I went to give him a bit of a hand and show him where to put the piles of branches and hey presto along comes a neighbour who has been in the street longer than us and I've been here 15 yrs now (hell, I just realised, we are the only ones here still from the people that were here when we shifted in!!!!  High turnover in 5 acre blocks LOL) and in all the time we've both been here I've never spoken to him more than a "Hi" at the letter boxes.... He came up the road on his little tractor with a bucket on it and dragged more than a few loads to the burn pile growing in the paddock now.  Had a really good chat with him actually, it was nice :)  And he helped Marcus out, bonus for him LOL.

So lots of little things happening to be grateful for.

Got New Years lined up in Golden Bay so that's cool.  Haven't yet sorted what we're doing going up North, the bloody Isuzu tow wagon is refusing to start nicely even with a brand new battery.  Might have to jump it and take it to work and test the alternator out, I don't honestly think a 2nd new battery is actually going to help...(it has 2 batteries). I want to take that wagon up north for 3 weeks, but it's old and hasn't been used for 2 yrs and the auto trans is slipping so I just don't trust it.... will hold off booking the ferry for all that just yet LOL.

And did I mention.... ONLY FIVE DAYS OF WORK LEFT!!!!!!!!  WOOOOOHOOOOOO!!!!!