supa hot

and loving it!

The roses are bloomin' blooming

and the veges are veging

Hanging out for the courgettes cause

they have been too expensive to buy.

Last night I went to Liza's place,

I haven't been there for a couple of years.

The reason was to visit with Alice and Alex

who I lived with 15 years ago.

I exchanged a Waikato summer for a Californian winter

after my first year at uni.

I had lived in California for three years previously

and after a year at home,

Liza called to say come over and play.
She had come over in my last year there

and hated it but went back anyway.

I ended up staying with Alice for four months.

I travelled quite a bit too,

places I hadn't been when I lived there

and a few that I had.

That's the benefit of having time away,

you get remember all the things you meant to do

but never did.

And now all these years later

Alice and Alex,

who is now 20 and was in elementary school when I was there

are here in the South Island..

They went off today over the mountains

stopping at Arthur's Pass on their way to Fox Glacier

and on to Wanaka.

So good to see them,

so good to be back home too.

And so good to munch on peanut butter cups.