Assembly Required

I couldn't take a decent photo to save myself today.  This afternoon we set off to the big hardware barns intending to buy a battery powered lawn mower.  The hand mower has failed after five years.  A combination of plastic and metal parts not working together I am told.  We came away with what we had for years and years.  A Briggs and Stratton 4 stroke motor mower.  It will see us out.  
We are off tomorrow for a quick jaunt to the West Coast staying two nights in Karamea.  Making the most of this spell of dry and sunny weather.  

Pleasant Valley Sunday          Carol King/Gerry Goffin  sung by The Monkees

Your local rock group down the street
Is trying hard to learn this song
To serenade the weekend squire
Just came out to mow his lawn
Another Pleasant Valley Sunday
Charcoal burnin' everywhere
Rows of houses that are all the same
And no one seems to care . . .