We looked back to the first Christmas in 2014 and that was the year we moved here as our new home. We have the Masters, Follett/Armstrong and some of the Wongs family shared with us for Christmas lunch with us here.
Today it was just four of us and spend a wonderful relaxing day… Not any of these families came to see or share with us for lunch or dinner this year… They choose to be somewhere else’s place today. We were hoping that they can join with us more often because we been to their places so many times over the years. Our home have got plenty of spaces and freely to walk around the fields even to play cricket or golf than in someone’s place. A lovely bbq with a couple umbrellas for the courtyard and chairs/tables everywhere – under many large trees for shades or in the courtyard where we have sailcloth.
We will visit mum and a brother down in Ralgan in a couple days – we don’t really want to visit the city of Hamilton over the holidays. The last time, mum and my aunty visited here was in Autumn – just my mum and aunty. My sister visited last April only. My niece with her family came down here for a visit from San Francisco early this year for the first time after 2 years in the city of Hamilton (at my sister’s place). Another person came here often, was a disabled man who I support and assisted him throughout years. He loves and enjoys here as a relaxing place or a memory childhood of his farm in Walton and other places where he grows up. His last visit was a couple months ago. So he and his brother of Wellington, will be joining with us at the end of this month or next month… He will be turning 65 years old next month.
We love our home and it gave us spacious to do gardening, woodworking in either three large buildings – a shed/double garage and a double carport, dogs runs, an escape haven from the city of Hamilton. During the summer, we choose to sit under large trees anywhere as shade bring us cool, joy to relax and to look at the gardens filled with flowers and vegetables. Everywhere is flat and easily accessible land, not just hilly, two or three stories houses/apartments and high slope land. Our home fills with loves, laughters, joys and experience here. We lost one dog last year and we gain another dog to replaced the one we lost. It gave us joy and laughter here.
Nearby our home – there are plenty of orchards and we still visit any one of the orchards such as Olde Berry Farms, Apple Orchards, Blueberry Orchards. I often stop by on my way home from work in the city of Hamilton. It is handy for me to stop at any orchards and buy fruits or milk even ice cream/ice yoghurt cream. We grew lots of vegetables since we moved here and I made lots of chutneys, jams and relishes. I gave fejios to local schools around here and my works including the people I supported/assisted. One funny thing i recalled stopping at Morrinsville Countdown car park and I saw a motor scooter parked in the car park. 
That photo was taken in April 2015 because my partner gave me a new car for birthday. I am still advocating people/children with disabilities around New Zealand. My focus area is rural country now because there are many people/children even families with a disabled child/adult living in rural and they are feeling isolated from the city.
We learn to read weather signs like rain, frost, wind here. If I have to go to work in the city, then I will have a spare rain coat in the car for the city. Because if I leave here in the morning with a fine weather and by the time I arrive in the city, it will be raining.
Dogs love here where there are plenty of furry animals in the early hours of mornings or nights…. They chased out to get it even they willing to bring inside the house if I am asleep. Better not!! There are abundance of rabbits/bunnies, possums, all kinds of birds and hedgehogs here.
We are looking forward a New Year especially our visitors of my partner for bbq, and the person and his brother, I am supporting/assisting for visit……………… Who knows if any of my families may turn up to visit if they are willing to come and see the changing of our works here since last Christmas 2014.
Life in Eureka 