OFF TO MARKET I GO

Today ... well I'm off to the local Sunday market:

ABOVE:  It starts at 8 am, so I shall probably be down there bang on 8. 😂😃😅

I was going to show you the photos we took yesterday while out on our 'tiki tour', but they can wait till tomorrow.

There's likely to be a 'few' market photos posted,  once I get home again.  *smiles*

I don't know if I've mentioned this, but I have a 'bucket list' of things to do before I go home.

They are the things I WOULD have done with Mum, had she been well enough.

-She would have dragged me off shopping.

-And to the markets.

-And sightseeing.

I'm sure there are a few more things I'm not aware of, but I will do as much as I can.  For her and for me.

I've made a good START on the shopping!

And the sightseeing too after yesterday.

While I've been away, Stew has been absolutely wonderful, doing all the things he knows I would want him to be doing.

Like keeping the house clean and tidy 😃😂😄.

And he's made us a vege garden, and he's also put some wooden edging around the areas of the gardens that kept having bark wash off onto the paths and driveway.

ABOVE: Dirt was running off the vege garden as well, so he's put a wooden edge along there too.  It looks like those lettuces will be ready for eating soon!

ABOVE: The tomato plants in those pots look healthy! 

ABOVE:  The edging looks good Darling.

Well done.

I'm just so, so desperate to get home again.  It makes me cry knowing that it's still 4 weeks until I walk through my front door again.

I think my biggest fear right now is my flight is cancelled, pushed back or what ever, and I have to stay here longer.  I pray that does not happen.

ONWARD...

The tiny butterflies are out again.  This means RAIN is coming.  Might not be today, might be tomorrow, but it's coming!

This happened two days  before Mum died, and Ron said the butterflies were a sign of rain coming!  And the day Mum died... IT RAINED.

Rain will be welcome, this country is as dry as fuck.

LOL. 

First time I've put the word f*#k  on the blog since Mum died too.  Mum hated when I used that word.  Sorry Mum... it's BACK. 😂😅😆

11.31 am:  And I'm back from the market.

It wasn't as big as I expected, but still a nice variety to look at.

ABOVE:  I bought a dress from this stall. 

Then I moved on to another, and while yakking with the seller, she mentioned she was from Tauranga.  I said that's where my Mum was originally from, in fact; she was from Oropi.

AND would you believe it?

That lady was from Oropi too!

She said she even knew Mum's family.

O....M....G.

Gave me the creeps.  Kinda.  OH yeah, I bought two tops off her too.  Cos I could, and they are gorgeous. 

On my way home... driving up the bumpy, gravel road... I get stopped by COPS!  

WTF?

But not a worry, they were lost.

So I redirected them to where they wanted to be and carried on home.

Such a weird morning.

ALSO on my way home this morning, I noticed smoke up behind our house.

I just talked to Ron about it.  And it would appear there is a bush fire only 2 kms away from us!

I'm like FREAKING OUT!

But it's supposed to be under control.

ABOVE:  The red arrow shows where we are, and the blue and white square? That's the fire.

I feel like it's too damn close, thank you very much.

OMG I can't wait to get out of this place!

Why, WHO would live in the bloody bush in a country prone to fires?  

Get me outta here!

8 MORE SLEEPS here, then I will be in Sydney.  NO fires there.

ABOVE:  Well, it's been raining for a few hours now!  Which means I will sleep a bit better tonight.  I went outside a little while ago (6.45 pm) and all I could smell was smoke!  Scary shit that.

But, this rain is expected to carry on through tomorrow, so I'm not going to pack me bags and run... YET.