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Hope you got a good restful sleep this time.

Chicken, of course. Bit tough though. So lamb chops a way better option, cheap quick easy meal we have often during winter. Sometimes with veg too.

Cool. Sounds like you had a pretty awesome time back then.

Haha, sorry no, its just a higher standard welding ticket required for working on ships - needed it for work on a trader between NZ and Fiji - whilst enroute - He had a bit of time in Fiji while they were unloading/loading to do some duty free shopping.

The boring part of just holding the animals, harder than its sounds.

We had some and emu too when in surfers once. I'll stick with beef and lamb.

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Photo is back of farm. Volcanic rock and soil. Cold June morning (Winter)

angora (mohair) goats. Also had cattle for milk or breading with buffalo straws to make Beefalo - really good meat. The farm was organic and always top dollar for animals.

I used to help my dad during holidays. Up north most jobs were fixing farm equipment that had been thrashed - welding rust to other rust or replacing smashed bearings. I only learnt basic stick welding and no gas torch work other than cutting. On the farm it would be foot pruning or hand shearing

engineering but preferred computers so switched to computer science - never finished as I needed money - was flatting with school friends in Auckland - it was a great time and we all drank too much. Nowadays I may have 1 beer a week or so and maybe a wine if we go out. Only if I feel like it though

equipment, sprayers, tanks snd the like. He was a fitter and turner and had a marine welding ticket at one time. My mum was a machinist (sewing) and housewife. They moved 3 hours north to a bigger farm when I was 17 and I stayed with friends to finish high school then on to Uni. Started doing

Unexpected but she had severe dementia and just got over her second covid.
My dad passed 29 Nov but the cancer pills he was on became ineffective in Sept, after 4 good more years and longer than usual. Knew it would go quick for him - lung cancer, likely from smoking as a teen and welding dirty farm

I have a 22 year old son and my wife is a kiwi Chinese (born here, knows enough Cantonese to get by). She is learning German and re-learning French. I only know English. Would love to learn Ukrainian when I recover some energy. This is a tough month as my mum died last Nov 11, on my Dad's 90th.

Hey I love it! I used to think my family was normal as a kid - compared to yours it sure seems it was. I have a younger brother with ME/CFS and a slightly younger adopted sister who is doing really well in Oz.

My friends were into marijuana but I didn't like not being able to think clearly so only tried a few times.

Our cicadas are 7 yearly but there are always some each year but some years are extra.

Well thats going to be interesting. On the up side, less cicadas?