This and that....

Ahhh OK! I realized i forgot to write about st. pattys day. as I said, i was on the hunt for irish people. I was about to give up on my night, BUT then, something AWESOME happened....I walked in my room and there were 2 irish girls that showed up YA!!! they were super nice and fun. we decided to go out to this "irish" bar...I think it was just a bar with decorations. but we were walking there, and realized none of us knew where it was....given that Westport has like 1 main road, but we talked to this guy and he was like "just listen for the music." no shit, we heard the music like 5 blocks down and there we went! It was pretty fun. Nice little irish band, everyone was shitfaced. Oddly enough, they played Wagon Wheel at the end, which is one of my favorite songs....so that was a lovely touch.

Ok, enough of that...

This week has gone by soooooo fast! Jeeez-la-weez. Hamish and Margaret are going to get back tomorrow night....I think at least. So here are a few highlights of the week.......

---Yesterday, during high tide, mark and i decided we should take a little kayak trip out. Not to the sea, but just around the estuary. so the kayak we took was SOOO old. we ended up fitting myself, mark, and FINN the dog in the kayak. hilarious. right when we started moving, mark pointed at something and finn just dove in the water. so of course, he got back in, and then just shook out all over the place and got us drenched. and stinky. we ended up getting stuck somewhere and walked back in our underware. pretttttttttty sweeeet! wish we had a pic of the three of us because we looked insane. pure rednecks.

---the chickens here are my friends now. they are HILARIOUS. I primarily feed them and they crackkk me up. they walk all over my feet and if they see me walk to the feed bucket,they freak ou8t and start running at me. The main chickens she has are a little walk away. so when I walk there in the morning i have my gumboots on and usually some lettuce leaves of something....so i start walking and say "heyy choooky choooky chooookkyyy!!" and they all start RUNNING at me. like little dinosaurs. its so odd and funny. then they follow me into their little house and i get there food and scatter it around. the rooster is SO damn loud. i want to kick it. but, i wonnnnntt! At night i have to collect the eggs. there are usually between 8-10. YUMMY! THe best is when i pick them up and they are HOT because they were just laid. pretty neat. Margaret told us that if any of the chickens are being "clucky" which means not laying eggs when they are istting there, to punish them by locking them up in the "sin bin" which is a cage and not feed them for 3 days. HA!
hummmm what else..........mark and i have these "art sessions" they are pointless, but fun nontheless. we just draw whatever....usually eachother in realy messed up ways, with blue hair and buggers. durrr!

FOund this new guy I like to listen to, Tiki Taane, he has this one song "always on my mind" that is sooo good. he was in a big group here called Solomonella Dub......... FYI.

What else, soo....OH YA! Farm WIFE! Shit, sooo basically after being here I realized i am not cut out for farm life. I think I would feel confident with a big garden and chickens, but thats it. Mark has had some troubles so he has done all the mowing and cutting wood, i have painted, weeded, and picked Calendula for soap. Oh and i stacked a shit ton of wood. but ya, basically, what it boils down to is that i understand how sexism came about back in the day. stuff can be hardd! especially for someone as small as me. small hands. so i appreciate farmers even more. and local produce. I enjoyed it and always wanted to support it, but now I think its necessary. its how people make their living, and its good for ya!

so the neighbors here are GREAT! and all new zealanders. I have had like 4 people, just neighbors, call here to see how I am doing and if I need anything. And hamish's sister, lindsey, who I have stayed with in CHristchurch and LOVE called the first night to make sure I was OK. SOO NICE! I love these people. such nice folks.

sandflies are a problem right now. my feet are swollen from the bites and they are just ALL OVER. ugh. oh well, once i leave the W. coast they will cool down a bit. its just bad over here.

Welll, anyways, i need to collect my thoughts betterr.......................................... scattered right now. OH YEA! I used a hair dryer today for the FIRST TIME SINCE JAN. 24th! I can't believe its half way over....only a month and a half left......crazy.

Oh ya, mark and I are going to do part of the Heaphy Track, its one of the "great walks of new zealand" it starts/leaves from Karamea. we are going to leave weds. and hike till Sunday...very excited! loooovvee hikin! ok, xoxomwah!