The Native Iowan

OK, so it’s official. The Holiday period is over. Time to go back to work.

My son, Don, and his gaggle of girls; Joanne, Dawn, Vera, Andromeda, left yesterday. They are back in lovely Honiara as we speak, and my little farm is quiet.

Which, of course, is good and bad.

Good in that the noise and stress and frenetic activity decreases/ ceases. Bad in that the cute little noise makers are all gone.

And we have a huge clean up to do. Not complaining, not at all, but it’ll be a couple days of cleaning and sorting to even begin to tidy things up. Put everything away, in readiness for the “next time”.

Being a Sunday, and being the “day after” I am a bit tired. The last couple days, the last days in country for the Honiara Hemmers, saw us being very busy. Don had parts and spares and work stuff to chase. I helped where I could. Drove to Toowoomba to collect parts. Helped organise the 150kgs (over 300 lbs) of “luggage” traveling back with them. (and I thought my mother traveled heavy!)

Yesterday was a 2vehilce run to the airport. A total of 2moms, 5 little girls, 1grandma, a dad and an olfart were required to get all and everyone delivered to the airport. On time, In style. Below we have: Dawn, Joanne, Andromeda, Betsy, Nova, Vera, Gracie, Gigi.

Once I got home yesterday I vegetated. Dosed in front of the TV, cooked my beans, fed my dawgs, thought about starting the cleanup process. I lounged all afternoon. Was in bed by 10pm. Woke no earlier than 9am. I needed a big rest. It was nice.

Tomorrow is the first real working day of the year here. My projects come back on line and I want things to heat up quickly. Id like to get a lot done this year.

One of my projects, a property development gig I have been working on for a long time, should be completed this year. But that is exactly what I thought 12 months ago. I have learned my lesson. I can’t just make things happen. Especially when it comes to land development, approvals, etc, etc. But I do have my first meeting of the year 1030am, tomorrow.We ended 2022 with some great accomplishments, and now I am looking to create positive traction.

Time will tell.

And the beat do go on… I can hear it.

Smiles

More later