Country Life in Summer

On Friday when I was at work I noticed the sky outside for most of the day was a sort of gray colour and the clouds were filled with smoke, most likely from Australia - so sad those fires are still going.

Sadly though our sky in Northland and for most of the North Island is orange... We are just fortunate here that although the grass everywhere is dry and each day is as hot as the one before, we haven't had any major fires.

Now that Christmas and New Year's is over my hours have dropped from full time to part time of 2 half days per week so it's not really enough but it's better than nothing at this point. While driving home on Friday I stopped at the intersection of Wellsford and Tomarata and saw this sign that has recently been put up. One good thing about living in the country is that local farms quite often sell produce from their driveway, they usually have some sort of honesty box nearby to put money into. This week the other half managed to buy me a bag of ripe avocados as I practically live on them.