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 Have fun and water God's garden with love and charity.

1 September. Not Spring.

 Sorry readers, been a tad indefatigable. 

I read that poor TC has gout. Don't envy him. Beware of charlatans!

RBB has been reduced to eating weeds. I feel guilty accepting his chocolates and cake now.

Today is the first day of spring. That is the Meteorological first day at least and lasts three months. The Astronomical first day is the 23rd at 12.05pm. The Ecological first day is when flowers bloom, trees get leaves and temperatures consistently rise. It doesn't feel like Spring to me so I will use the Ecological definition. I'll let you know when it happens. Why are the Seasons three months? Evidently it's statistically conveneint for Governments. The Catholic Church just calls today the 22nd week of ordinary time. It's the feast day of St Giles the hermit.

"An unspiritual person is one who does not accept anything of the Spirit of God; he sees it all as nonsense. A spiritual man, on the other hand, is able to judge the value of everything, and his own value is not to be judged by other men...."Who can know the mind of the Lord...we are those who have the mind of Christ". 1 Cor 2:10-16

The Gospel is cool. Jesus comes across a man who was possessed by the spirit of an unclean devil. "Ha! What do you want with us Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God". It said. 

" The present moment is a gift, cherish it".

Sunday pm

 On Friday we decided to detour from the Transmission Galley route home and stop off at the Fisherman's Table for a fish lunch at Paekakariki. I turned off at Waikanae thinking we would have a drive on the old route and was bemused that the only road went west to the beach. Google redirected me onto the motorway again as I hadn't remembered that they had reused part of the 'old' road. My beloved L was nice and didn't give me too much of a hard time, just saying "Why didn't you turn of at the same place we did last time". There's no arguing with a woman's logic. 

We had a luncheon on Saturday which went very well apart from Rod forgetting and RBB having to ring him up and remind him. To his credit he arrived in half an hour. 

On the way back past Sanson, or was it Shanon, we found this car. Why did they name two towns that are at key junctions so similar. "Which way did you come, Shanon or Sanson?" 

..."err yer I think so umm ..".

I pulled up ...

at this gate...

The gate.

There was no sign of life.

It was a wonderful weekend. Many thanks to all the Prowses who contributed to making the Saturday lunch so enjoyable.