Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Back at Mike and Claires!!!

MIKE AND CLAIRE'S - AGAIN :)
Josh and I at the Morrisson's bay in Opotiki

Hard to see with the picture sideways, but turn your head to the right and you'll see the entire ceiling is full of garlic in the curing process. This was our work for the 4 days at the house.

Josh doing what he does best

Harvesting garlic


Josh arrived on Saturday after I had spent an amazing 5 days at the PRANA festival in the Coromandel. We spent a day in Auckland getting him situated (basically buying a guitar for him and just enjoying being back together again) and then headed back to the Bay of Plenty.

We're loving life at Mike and Claires, harvesting and curing garlic, and loving the harvesting of the corn (really just eating it). It's as gorgeous as ever here and life for the family is busy - picking and selling corn and the rest of the massive amounds of veges coming up!

We had our first experience hitching, which was both successful and fun! Much better when the person you're hitching with can play the guitar and sing. I think it plays down the fact that he's a man. A lot of people are hesitant to pick up men, but couples and especially musicians have better luck....I'm told.

Next we're off to Gisborne for a few nights of camping and then finding our way down to Wellington and soon we should hit the South Island!

1 comment:

Karissa aka Grace said...

Glad you had good luck with the hitching. Some of our favorite memories were from random rides. Enjoy the South Island! Kia Ora Josh!!!!