Wednesday 6 September 2017

THE BIG BURN BETWEEN TWO PROPERTIES

Sunday afternoon 3rd September Tony and Graham prepared themselves to get the gullies between their two properties and up the side boundary right out to O'Flynn Cres.

We four had our jobs, - Tony driving his tractor (water truck), Wayne on the end of the hose, Graham as fire starter and I manhandled the rake to put out the little edges so the fire wouldn't spread.





Whew - that was one HUGE task completed and now the boys just need some rain come summer to get the new growth to come away on the remaining standing trees.  I must say, Wayne and I were only glad we could help them with this mammoth task and so now Tony can get on with his many other dreams and schemes.
Tuesday 5th we fare welled Tony as he went back to work and we had our last night here.  Had to have one last bon fire around the fire pit.  Cleaned up our paper rubbish and even our old Golden Oldie green jumpers from the Christchurch tour. (1995 I think)??????? Yes we still had them and Wayne wore his frequently but, I made him get rid of them as we were given new jackets from Tony.



Had to captor the full moon as the twilight descends over the property.


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