Peter (Rusty – my hearing partner) and my sister said I deserved a proper holiday break from social service. This quote was just right for us, who works under MCA (M. Social Services in Hamilton) last weekend. Big Thank you to the funding board for having us a weekend break in Coromandel, North Island.
Apart from the long winding road, the staff picked other staff from Hamilton en route to our home via Coromandel. It was a cloudy afternoon, and at the last minute of haste, one guy to drop off an item house before I left. Two cars filled with staff arrived simultaneously, with one guy in a separate car at the gate while our dogs barked loudly. Oh boy, what a rush off afternoon!
The scar mark in the farming land showed from the heavy flooding in the Pinnacles mountains in Coromandel Forest Park on September 10 2019, and July 23 2017. Arriving before Tairua for a quick loo break at Kopu as the staff request and breather before heading the longest winding road along State Highway 25a and 25 up the mountain peaks. Between Kopu and Tairua routes, the mountainsides showed brunt marked from the flooded landslips that closed the main State Highway 25 and 25a on July 23 2017. This flooding and landslips repurchased my memories. Rusty called out to do the evacuation job by clearing approximately 50 metres wide and blocking both lanes, cutting local people and tourists. The work took many days to reopen the roads.
Finally, we reached Tairua and walked around to do exercise. We resume travelling, passing Pumpkin Hill, Whenuakite, by turning right toward Purangi and arriving at Cooks Beach to continue as the night drawing when we arrived at Flaxmill Lodge.
Closer to the place we will be staying at Flaxmill as afternoon fading.
Ah, bliss and how peaceful and excellent a place to spend a holiday break at Flaxmill Lodge. Before we all head out to Whitianga from the Ferry Landing, which takes under 8 minutes ferry ride, rest at last. We walked around and found a place to have dinner meal during the Friday busy night.
From the Ferry Landing to Whitianga
Mmm, Where is Flaxmill Bay? Peaceful, seaside campground and accommodation set within landscaped grounds at Flaxmill Bay on the east coast of the Coromandel Peninsula. A short walk/ferry ride to Whitianga, walking distance to Cooks Beach or a short drive to Cathedral Cove and Hot Water Beach. It is accessible for disabled people/children and other people to use this Flaxmill Accommodation and camping ground.
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive -to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” – Marcus Aurelius
Spending time away from home of Eureka and work in Waikato this weekend – What a great way to start off on a journey to wind down and take a breather off my mind along with our work colleagues in Coromandel! Just six of us under Methodist City Action – Hamilton Methodist Social Service. What a laptop here with me?? A pen and notebook would be good, but I need some assistance to improve my writing and collect new words.
Staying at Flaxmill Lodge, Mercury Bay near Cooks Beach, NZ
How bliss the sunshine shining here through the window from the mountain and giving warmth and light! For I know the Lord is with us always and count our blessing today.
“But blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.” – Jeremiah 17:7-8
How strange to be away from my partner, our three dogs and our home for such a long time! It is a different time when my partner was in the hospital for his new hip replacement early this year. How blissful to sleep in the large bed without a partner, two dogs sleeping on the bed and Joseph the older sleeping on the floor. This means no shuffling, bumping, pulling blankets side by side, even dogs taking our space.
“And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.” – 2 Corinthians 9:8
The sun rose above the mountain and keep shining on the ground, giving more warmth sunshine, for it was 3oC in the early hour of this morning. Walking around the lounge and found this book I came across. It is worth reading this book.
Looking forward to the rest of the day coming before we head back to our home in Eureka and their homes in Hamilton City tomorrow morning.
“Dōgen states that the eternal Buddha-mind or enlightenment is found in everything from tiles to oceans to mountains to stones. David Edward Shaner, The Bodymind Experience in Japanese Buddhism“
Enlightenment is found within the mind, not outside it in various worldly phenomena. It is found in wisdom, not ignorance, in virtue and purity, not evil and pollution. “William Bodri, Socrates and the Enlightenment Path”
Is there any way to understand the role of a Christian Leadership in the church, group and training college?
Ann (nom de plume) came across one video by the Deaf woman of Hamilton, hoping to establish a Deaf Christain camp and a team in 2022. In the video, she signed about Christain Leadership and signed about studying the course through Christain College. Mm, Ann thought, how can any Deaf person understand and lead the excellent leadership role to their Deaf parishioners in the church? It is a big challenge to become a good leadership role to all interest by the Deaf Christain persons.
Can any Deaf Christain people move away from the ‘toxic’ area from the Deaf community? We do not have the answer, let alone and pray, if they realise and understand what was going on out there?
When a person creates an idea to lead the group, it must work together as a team, not be pushed around or ordering someone to do the work for anyone. The other tool is to find someone to mentor the person and the team to become a good leader. One person must remember to limit the highly speaking and creating the idea, or problem solving because that person will become too enthusiastic and forget about any Deaf Christain people’s chance or choice to speak up. This person is the result of too inferior leadership role at the table or in the church.
Irrespective of how anyone defines a leader, he or she can prove to be a difference-maker between success and failure. A good leader has a futuristic vision and knows how to turn his ideas into real-world success stories. It is essential for anyone as ‘a leaders know the way, goes the way and shows the way.”
Let us see the excellent leadership role, qualities and principles, examples of teaching, and leading other church or youth groups that separate good leaders from bad ones.
Let see what the principles of becoming or gain the learning to improve are.
Peter walk toward Jesus on a stormy sea forecast the dilemma of Christians in future centuries. Stormy change often leaves believers seasick as the gospel shrugs off the shackles of one historical period after another on its journey to the outer limits of recorded time and beyond.
Today’s Christian leaders face upheaval as time roars into the 21st century. They must walk with Him and obey Him on a raging sea of social, economic, moral, cultural, and technological change unprecedented in human history. Like Peter, they must decide which is more vital—their faith in God or their fear of the future. Simon Peter climbed out of the boat, believing he could follow Jesus’ command to walk on water. However, anchored by his limited view of the possible, his faith faltered, and he sank. Church leaders on a mission today must also step out in faith from their anchored past to answer Jesus’ command to communicate His unchanging message in a mighty roaring sea of change.”
Here is another example of making an outstanding leadership by a different author.
Ann began wondering how the other churches can learn more from the Deaf Christain people and other disabled people in their churches. She realised it is different to lead the churches by the disabled, even Deaf people, for example, communicate in sign language, braille Bibles. Today, many new technologies make disabled people and Deaf people’s lives better than before as there were so many barriers that restricted Deaf people/disabled people. There are more tools to develop a better course for any Deaf people or Deaf with disabilities people to study “The leadership role”. Yes, there is one problem: financial to provide excellent tools like computer, laptop, literacy resources plus in NZSL versions, Bible study in NZSL and Easy to Read versions. Many Christain people seek funding, receive bequests donations, fundraising to help disabled Christain people, even to Deaf Christain people.
Here are other simple tools for leadership qualities are: –
There are plenty more ideas for becoming a good leadership person than a bad one.
Great Stewardship
In Christian organisations, God calls us to be good stewards of all our resources, especially the people we have entrusted. Leadership is about enabling those people to achieve their full potential, not only to achieve but exceed their goals in God’s Kingdom service. Developing leadership excellence leads to the fulfilment of individual and organisational potential.
Growing Christ-centred leaders is an investment in excellent stewardship.
Great Outcomes
People who have expertise and skill in an organisation’s technical and operational aspects natural rise to leadership positions. Nevertheless, leadership is about much more, requiring an additional, new and different skill set.
Authentic leadership, modelled on Christ, is not about position, it is about the role, and it emerges from a Christ-like servant heart that understands how to enable others to be the best they can be in God’s service. This leadership skill set is the critical factor that allows leaders, the people they lead and their organisation to achieve excellent outcomes.
Growing Christ-centred leaders is an investment in achieving excellent outcomes.
Great Reputation
Alas, it is sadly all too easy to come across Christian organisations with a reputation for not reflecting the character of Christ as they ought. The culture of any organisation built on the character and style of its leaders. Leaders become nurtured and grown to lead in a way modelled on Jesus create a vital and vigorous organisation that enjoys a reputation for being Christ-like.
A good reputation is essential; not only does it honour God, but it correlates with effectiveness, high productivity, easy recruitment and low staff churn.
Growing Christ-centred leaders is an investment in the witness of an excellent, God honouring reputation.
A Christ-focused organisation
The quality and character of its leaders define the quality and character of an organisation. There are two possibilities as to the source of this character: the world or Christ.
Leadership styles based on secular models, which is the default unless specific steps take, will lead to an organisation with a worldly character. Leadership styles that emerge from obedience to Christ’s teaching and reflect his nature will be distinctly Christ-like. As with every aspect of the Christian walk developing Christ-likeness takes prayerful effort. If becoming more Christ-like alone is not enough, such a character will significantly enhance an organisation’s reputation amongst its peers.
A highly committed and engaged staff
Study upon study shows that the best performing organisations enjoy the highest levels of staff commitment, the lowest levels of toxic attitudes, and very high staff satisfaction levels. They show that this results only from the highest leadership quality focused on enabling others to achieve their best. Leadership born from a character-centred on Christ’s Servant heart is a leadership style of the highest quality.
Creativity and vigour
Organisations with the highest quality of leadership and a staff who delight in achieving their best are vibrant and vigorous. They are creative and innovative, as they find better and more effective ways of working and using their resources. They excel in resolving complex issues and challenges which would otherwise limit achievement.
Growing high-quality people
Christ-centred servant leaders are concerned with enabling those they lead to achieve their full potential in Kingdom service. Consequently, they invest in the quality of their people by growing their skills, experience, confidence, and wisdom. Studies show that high-quality people with high levels of staff satisfaction lead directly to the highest quality outcomes for the organisation.
Extending organisational capacity
The high levels of commitment, job satisfaction, vigour, creativity, and quality that emerge under exemplary leadership enable organisations to work smarter and more efficiently, finding more effective ways of using often limited money and resources. As a result, they will increase their organisation’s capacity because they can achieve more with the limited resources available.
Highly effective performance
As a direct result of exemplary Servant leadership, exhibiting a character-centred on Christ’s Servant heart, an organisation will not only reflect Christ’s character more brightly, but it will be highly effective and able to achieve more. Studies show that similar organisations massively outperform their peers on key staff, operational, and financial measures.
Growing the Servant Heart
Growing the Servant Heart is a leadership development curriculum designed to help anyone do just that. Rooted in the Bible and practical experience, it seeks to draw out and apply the leadership principles taught and modelled by Jesus.
People are everyone – children, babies, adults, teenagers, disabled people and children and D/deaf people and children as one whole universal people.
What people who are deaf with a disability or multi disabilities, people with mental illness, elderly persons? This group of people/children with multi disabilities, along with D/deaf are human like us.
Mm, what I am trying to work out by putting a piece of advice or details about us to you – readers? Do you realise there are more than 1 billion disabled people in the world? This result came from the WHO (World Health Organisation), and yes, it is an updated result. Perhaps you did not see anyone with disability/disabilities in your area, street, park even anywhere you did not see anyone with disability/disabilities in your area, street, park even anywhere you work in the building.
If you do not know much about us – disabled people, even D/deaf people well, or a little bit of understanding-you may have a family member who has a disability. Please consider learning from us; otherwise, you will be fantastic to see or realise we do have the skill, ability to do in a different way of communicating, activity and the ability to understand you. Yes, I know that people are often afraid, unsure how to communicate, or unsure how to get involved with us. But, the worst of all, we disabled people, D/deaf people and D/deaf people with disabilities, are often left out or forgot that we are there in the same room without chatting or include us in your meeting.
In New Zealand, we – disabled people, D/deaf people and deaf with other disabilities people facing many house crisis, shortage of financial income, bleak of finding a job and no friendly accessible everywhere. We are not the only human facing huge problems; everyone else looking for a place with a roof over the head faces a shortage of houses. We – disabled people, are at the bottom of the list than anyone else able to gain a home with a roof, find a job, or earn a little income for their children.
Stop thinking of the planning design, infrastructure first and start listening to us on what we need with a friendly, accessible environment and homes with a roof over our head. I could challenge high profile players like property developers, property investors, architects, Maori Trustees of the Boards, Rental management Brokers/investments, and other people like the MPs, Council Staff. A tool called ‘Universal Design” logged and implemented into the Building Act Law in Ireland. The device called the “Rethinking” project because they may not know about us, instead of bickering over the high-cost infrastructure to install in the ground, even inside the house. The rethinking tool is ideal for making everyone change their attitudes, learning about us, their behaviours, and perhaps overall, challenge implementing the law through the Government. Check out this website http://universaldesign.ie.
We are human like you, and we have the gift of wisdom, leadership, teaching and experience from birth/after accidents to pass on to the next generation as we learnt from the previous generations.
The year 1997, between August and early October, was the highlight for me as I was travelling from one country to other several countries. So why am I writing this blog about 1997? First, I read the NZ Herald and came across the article about the Royal Family that caused my eye. The article was about the opening of Princess Diana’s Memorial Garden and to mark the 60th Years of her age.
I decided to have another holiday break back in 1996, made the plan, contacted several cousins and friends in the UK, Europe, and Canada, and checked the airfare and accommodation prices in Ireland. I booked the date and month from August to early October 1997 and paid everything in advance plus my work leave. Everything was okay leading up to the 29th of August; my mother heard the tragedy over the radio while my youngest brother saw the breaking news on television. I was out visiting a friend and unaware of the breaking news until I got home. My mother said a violent car crash in Paris, France, where Princess Diana was killed and her partner. There may be some delays with the flights and funeral that spoiled my holiday plans. But, I said to my mother, “nothing will stop me from going on a long holiday.”
Off, I went on a holiday, and my first stopover was London, UK, because a young lady was living there for the first time from New Zealand. She was working as a service coordinator for the Deaf Community in Hamilton, New Zealand. Tania was the name of this young lady. Before arriving at Heathrow, UK, the air hostess said there would be a slight delay in landing due to heavy air traffic. So I was in the aeroplane and the other passengers and staff for about 30 minutes in the air. Obviously, the reason why there were so many high-profile people coming to Princess Diana’s funeral.
We landed at Heathrow Airport, and I made my way to the Bed and Breakfast hotel with Tania, who met me at the airport. I showed Tania around London as sightseeing. Ohh, what strong perfume floating everywhere we walked around London, and we passed the Kensington Palace. We saw massive rows to rows of flowers, bouquets of flowers, wreaths and many messages lying on the ground toward Buckingham Palace. We stopped briefly to look at everyone who paid respect and to mourn the loss of Princess Diana. Then, we walked away from this to the other side – Mayfair, Soho, and back to Chelsea, where I was staying. A couple days later, I took a train to Nottingham to see my cousin and his family on my late father’s mother’s side family. I was not bothering about the Royal family and staff preparing the funeral and enormous crowds in London. Still, I am glad to be out of London.
We did not watch the Royal family on TV or read the papers because we were travelling around Notts and Warwickshire before catching a flight to Vancouver, Canada. I flew to Vancouver and stayed there for several days before heading out to Edmonton, where I stayed with my mother’s new friends. They took me to visited the Deaf School called Alberta School for the Deaf (ASD), where I met several D/deaf children and the principal. They also showed me around Edmonton for several days.
I returned to the UK via Heathrow and took a rental car to Wales. I stayed in several bed and breakfast hotels and Patrick’s sister and her family’s place and drove around Wales. Before making my way to Warwickshire – Solihull, I caught up and stayed with my cousin and her family for a few nights. There was nothing to talk about the funeral and afterwards over Prince William and Harry. I took a flight to Ireland from Birmingham Airport, and the flight was delayed due to a mechanical fault. The air hostess gave me a new seat in the business class – oh wow! The flight to Dublin was quicker than I thought.
Croeso I Gymru – Welcome to Wales
In the morning, I finally read the newspaper in the hotel lobby after breakfast. I saw there were severe fuss and drama over the royal family, the press, the partner’s family in the media. This was how I remember the media, the blame by the partner’s family, heartbreaking stories and the result of the violent car accident. But from that day, I completed my tour around Ireland and flew back to Birmingham, UK. I hired another rental car and Cambridgeshire – St Ives, where she got a little fella under 2 years old. I was completely forgotten about Princess Diana’s death, media and the drama of the Royal Family. I finished off my holiday in the UK before heading home to Hamilton via Auckland, New Zealand early October.
Céad míle fáilte! – A Hundred Thousand Welcomes!
St. Ives, Cambridgeshire
Edmonton
Oh, that was a long time ago – twenty-seven years since Princess Diana’s violent death.
June 24th 2021, waking up in the early hours of this morning – blimey freezing as we walked on the floor, and my partner lets the dogs out for a run.
our home in the very early hour of the morning
Young Nova, the dog, walked on tipping paw each time she walked on the grassy and Nova came back as soon as cuddling up to my legs. Sheer, Joseph, and Jazz came back and begged for dog treats as soon they walked up to the pantry door.
Yep, Jack Frost banged on the first day of the frost session this month. Unfortunately, the temperature record was -2.8C – ouch, while the King Country area received -3.5C. Wondering if blueberries shrubs are okay through overnight or not! Blimey as I recorded in the gardener magazine while checking the weather forecast from the iPad.
Made lunch for dad for I call him as he is my hearing partner while he gets ready for his work. Our dogs munching their favourite dog treats while I drink a cup of coffee. Oh, dear! It was time for dad to leave for work on the freezing cold morning.
Dogs and I followed dad out in the sunroom, checking his movement. We are still working on installing another spotlight in the carport facing the gate of the road. Watching dad leave for work as dogs ran back to one of the doors, for they knew a large dog biscuits bag stashed away. Oh sigh! I want to go back to bed and have a proper sleep, for I did not sleep well overnight. Went into the room where there is a large dog biscuits bag and grabbed several Tux biscuits as it was there favourite snacks.
Checking the clock and sigh, the boys caught their school bus on the opposite side of the road. Went back to sleep for another half an hour before getting up to catch up on emails, preparing meals and let our dogs out for another long run. Sun came out peeping through the window! Cor blimey, it is still freezing morning, and what shall I have for breakfast. Sleeping away until another disturbing and Jazz barking at the regular walking along the road. Time to get up for our dogs played with me on the bed. Mm. Ahh, why not a porridge on my own, for dad was not here with me through winter during the week.
Indeed why not, and let make one so I can share with our dogs!
homemade porridge is a great way to start off for breakfast.
One day, something struck my mind when I watched my partner – Rusty preparing roast tea – roast chicken with potatoes, kumara and pumpkins. I asked him if he has turned over the vegetables and his responses were nope. Why not? He said I don’t really have to turn over, just leave there until ready. Oh crap, and never mind! I said to Rusty.
Our oven is getting very old and barely cook the top only, not the bottom or fan bake with the broken bottom element. I think, and we know the mice or rat been at the back of the oven for many years. We just bought a new fridge-freezer as our old one lasted 28 years several weeks ago. We do have an excellent medium fan bake oven – not a large one. I bought a medium fan bake oven several years ago, and I used to place it on the bench, which is brilliant and quick to cook. I asked Rusty why does he not use this portable fan bake oven. Nope, can not be bothered to take it out of the cupboard! Sigh!
I noticed some of my friend’s husbands do the same things like can not be bothered to turn over, leaving a mess etc.
This picture was taken late afternoon when I got home from work as a specialised community worker for one Deaf with CP (Cerebral Palsy) and speech impaired elderly chap. Rusty was preparing a lovely roast chicken with roast vegetable tonight. He made banana and chocolate chips muffins this morning as he told me.
Hey, about this one? Can man cook a meal or not? Can they follow the instruction or not? I seldom know most men can cook differently from women where else by not reading the instruction. My Rusty does not really follow the instruction, just taking the ingredient out of the cupboard and work out instead of doing the correct measurement. I noticed rather odd for quite a long time – why does he put hot water into the butter, so the butter melt? A couple years ago we bought a microwave as we don’t have one in the last 15 years or more. Rusty saw me putting the butter to melt in the microwave for under 1 minute and put in the wet ingredient when I made a coffee cake. He goes, ohhhh and is that how I do when I am making.
One Deaf with CP and speech impaired elderly chap and everywhere we go out to do his grocery, paying the bills, shopping and lunch. He continuously checks his watch as his habits from his late parents. For example, we must have lunch at 12noon, an afternoon tea at 3pm, and arrive to pick him up on time. He can tell how long we have been travelling from Hamilton to Raglan or to Cambridge.
The reality that men prefer to stick in one path direction by leaving women goes all over the places, moves/shift further outward from one path. Just like men are from Mars, women are from Venus.
Autumn Leaves near the Lake during the COVID19 Lockdown 4 and 3 2020
I recall through many photos while cleaning up any identical images from the Cloud Drive storage. April is here, and May will come within a few weeks, and I saw this photo. This photo reminded me of where it was taken during the Lockdown Level 4 rolled to Level 3 in 2020.
A few days, I was helping the Deaf man (Stephen – not real name) to install the new free wifi modem, but there was a problem with the connection to his mobile. I was not allowed to enter his flat as a deaf essential worker. There were guidelines from the MOH (Ministry of Health) and the approved details when working or helping other invalid people, people with disabilities, during the Lockdown. I signed to Stephen outside his flat within 2 metres, and I tried to figure out the problem with his connection. NOTE: a free modems were under the Government Funding through COVID via Social Service where I worked. Thank you, Skinny Jump, for provided modem to any low-income families, including people with disabilities, so they can pay $5 per data of the Gb each month.
I decided to contact someone I know through Hamilton West School, and he is an IT person. His name is Duoiane, and he did the network connection job here when Peter and I moved from Hamilton to Eureka in 2014. Duoiane was happy to assist with the modem connection to the mobile. The day before this photo was taken, it was a bad day because my dead tooth cracked, and it was so bloody painful even the night before. I made the booking through the Facebook message to my Dentist the day before the photo was taken. Note: my dead tooth had been around, so a long time, over 20 years and this tooth refused to pull out even I do not have any pain until 2020.
The next day, I headed out to the Dentist first thing in the morning. I waited outside until the staff checked my temperature reading and filled out the particular form under the Lockdown. We went inside the building and started the process of removing the cracked tooth. The Dentist staff tried to remove by using three different sizes of piler/clamps. Finally, the broken tooth out then, followed by a numb check and a jaw. I found it hard when I tried to talk; never mind, there is always sign language.
Cracked dead toothThe result afterward numb and stiff left side of the face
Off to pick up the modem and a couple mobiles from Stephen and speak in sign language outside his flat. He worried how long it will take to reset or re-fix, and I told him that the IT person lives on the other side of the lake. Maybe a couple hours or so! I headed over to the other side of the lake and texted Duoiane to say I am at their driveway gate. I walked up to his front door, and his wife greeted me at the porch within 2 metres of social distances. I placed a modem, a couple mobiles and details of the server and password on the table in the patio area.
I walked back to my car as it was a sunny day while nursing my left side of my face. That goodness, I took a couple pain relief!
Admiring the side of the lake, colourful leaves falling down, while the cold airbrushing along with the trees. And everyone who walked along the footpath. I felt the cold and sharp wind against my body while the sun shining on me. The colourful leaves were yellow, reddish, and brownish, lay on the footpath reminded me that Autumn was here. Yes, it was Autumn time, for I recalled during the Lockdown 4 and 3 in 2020.
A poem – To Autumn by John Keats
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.
Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; Or on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep, Drows’d with the fume of poppies, while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers: And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep Steady thy laden head across a brook; Or by a cyder-press, with patient look, Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.
Where are the songs of spring? Ay, Where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,— While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn; Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft; And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
Our dogs explored the scents from the ground in our large property as autumn leaves on the ground.
Sitting down to start the day in the home office while hubby – Peter is recovering from his hip/pelvis surgery on the six weeks. Video conference emergency flashing notification message from a Deaf caller on the desktop, was the first thing to start the day at 930am. Click and start the video conferencing to find a silly and confused contractor who was lost for his job by his Fibre Company and asking for the request on which Kia Oranga (formerly Housing New Zealand) house. Guided him by describing the house in front of the Deaf person’s rented house by Kia Oranga. He located the right house and hung up the video call. Resume checking my diary, checking, checking appointments until Peter yelled out Mummmmmm, and came into the home office, the printer won’t print. Sigh!
A few moments at a time, I sorted out the printer and stopped for a coffee break to calm my annoying of having distracted. Nova, our young dog, bought home a ‘throw out bread crust’ for I know Peter threw put from the kitchen windows. Oh, bother, I decided to leave this and head back to the home office, so I continue to work.
Barking, barking, swiftly, swiftly go the noise, I went out to investigate where dogs are doing, and Peter is painting the side door. Our dogs had been chasing tractor pass down the road. Sigh! Walk back to the home office and found a notification message flashing on the desktop, waiting for me to answer. It was the caller from the UK about the disability news – Deafblind group. It was lovely to receive their story from them.
Moving on to my course materials where I was supposed to do the assignments since Peter was out of the hospital. Reading the materials and thought of something to take notes and details in the course materials. Another flashing message popped up, asking if I am free to chat over a grave concern or not. Oh well, why not! Rats the update software popped up at the same time I was prepared to send the chat to the Deaf caller. I was waiting for the downloading software to finish and finally hit the chat video button. We chatted over the issues, then noticed my time near for my quick lunch and headed off to my appointment in the city of Hamilton.
Finally, I came home but guess what! Peter lets our dogs out as the dogs were pleased to see me at the front gate, where I headed to open the gate. I gave them a command to stay, so I get in my car and move inside the property before heading to the carport. Quickly out of the vehicle while our dogs chasing around the car and came to me while I closed the gate. I turned and found Peter was standing near the carport, and I did not hear him telling our dogs to stay. He has amused us as we walked back to the house. I saw our side door freshly painted in greyish colour. That was a nice colour for a change from dark blue as the door had been weather battered down over a few years. We have a coffee break, then Peter off to rest his hip and pelvis, and I head back to the home office to do more works. I was hoping no more distracted or disrupted while I am working until nearly dinner time.
There was never-ending as Nova got vomiting, Peter had done the rubbish bag ready to take out, our middle dog – Jazz barking at the person who walked past, and then our older dog Joseph wanting to sleep under the work table. More emails came through, and I have a quick check through emails. I decided it was time to stop and take the rubbish bag out by keeping the dogs inside so I can have a breather while walking down the private road. I turned around to check our fields – ohhhh, for God sake! Peter let the dogs out, so they came to find me on the other side of the fence. I walked back to the gate for the dogs to know that they stayed until I closed the gate. A few more jobs to do outside, such as locked the garage side door and the greenhouse double doors before heading back to the house as dinner time already.
That was my daily routine around at home while Peter is recovering from the surgery since six weeks ago.
Life in Eureka 
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