After a few days of after shocks
We are all tired, we have had 30 people over, in steams in the last two days.
I realise now how important it is to have clean water and power, easy to forget.
Collecting water, having showers, tea and conversations.
It is quite hard getting sleep when the house moves every so often.
We are back to the one room mode, funny, much to every ones amusement I get to be under the big wooden beam, we haven't decided if that is a good idea or not, so we are all moving to the outer walls, were the house is single story.
So keeping up the "normal behavior", cutting grass, collecting eggs and cleaning up slowly.
Strange the audio book I am listening to is "lucifers Hammer", a disaster novel, about a comet strike in 1970's California, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
We have some very homeless people turning up to use the cottage. I had an email from Batches and Holiday homes, the company that used to advertise our holiday home in Hanmer, to renew our booking fees. So I paid up and started add our new cottage, as we have sold Hanmer. I realised that not many people will be booking a holiday with us for a while. So Oliver and I took Trixie for a walk, much better idea.
Thanks for all the messages by the way.
Last night we had a great dinner with our friends from Holland, I lit the fire, even though
that might not be a good idea it was quite calming. Lots of fresh things from the garden and
I am very glad I bought the BBQ last week.
Just got a Job documenting the outer suburb damage, that starts next week. I and glad I can do something positive to help out.
I realised that Annie almost died in the quake, she has been talking with and comforting all the people she was with.
Because every one says they are ok, it does not mean they are OK, it means they are alive, we are all traumatized to some extent and need time to recover.
It would have been very hard for all of us if Annie had been taken from us. We have already heard that some friends and acquaintances have died 0r have been hurt.
My heart goes out to those who have lost someone.
I realise now how important it is to have clean water and power, easy to forget.
Collecting water, having showers, tea and conversations.
It is quite hard getting sleep when the house moves every so often.
We are back to the one room mode, funny, much to every ones amusement I get to be under the big wooden beam, we haven't decided if that is a good idea or not, so we are all moving to the outer walls, were the house is single story.
So keeping up the "normal behavior", cutting grass, collecting eggs and cleaning up slowly.
Strange the audio book I am listening to is "lucifers Hammer", a disaster novel, about a comet strike in 1970's California, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
We have some very homeless people turning up to use the cottage. I had an email from Batches and Holiday homes, the company that used to advertise our holiday home in Hanmer, to renew our booking fees. So I paid up and started add our new cottage, as we have sold Hanmer. I realised that not many people will be booking a holiday with us for a while. So Oliver and I took Trixie for a walk, much better idea.
Thanks for all the messages by the way.
Last night we had a great dinner with our friends from Holland, I lit the fire, even though
that might not be a good idea it was quite calming. Lots of fresh things from the garden and
I am very glad I bought the BBQ last week.
Just got a Job documenting the outer suburb damage, that starts next week. I and glad I can do something positive to help out.
I realised that Annie almost died in the quake, she has been talking with and comforting all the people she was with.
Because every one says they are ok, it does not mean they are OK, it means they are alive, we are all traumatized to some extent and need time to recover.
It would have been very hard for all of us if Annie had been taken from us. We have already heard that some friends and acquaintances have died 0r have been hurt.
My heart goes out to those who have lost someone.
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