A month ago we got to attend a sealing session at the New Zealand Temple. While there, we met a couple who told us about their cousins who lived just outside of Whitianga. They live on 20 acres in the middle of an avocado orchard that they planted 20 years ago. They built a one room cottage and lived in it for 3 years while they built a beautiful home. Then they decided to occasionally rent out the small cottage. Ten years ago, the husband, Derrick went in for a routine surgery and was given the wrong blood. Somehow, he survived but is now an invalid. So Sue is left with this huge amount of property that she tries to keep running. She does have a daughter, Belinda, who lives abut 20 miles away and comes to help on Fridays. The couple in the temple gave us their business card so we decided to drop by and volunteer to help if we could. We decided to go by about 3 weeks ago and what an amazing piece of property! It must be close to the Garden of Eden! Sue wouldn't let us work the first day but we came back last week and talked her into letting us help. Today her daughter was there and she showed even more things we could do. Here are some of the pictures:
Buddy in the garden area:
The cottage:
Belinda sent me over to pick up walnuts and it kept feeling like someone was watching me:
Then before we could leave, they insisted on us taking some produce home:
I'm not sure what we'd call this root veggie in the front but they called it a "swede", then avocados behind that, oranges and some huge lemons. We also have walnuts drying on the front porch. I guess we can't say we volunteered for free because we definitely got paid. Yum, yum. Kia Ora, Elder and Sister O'Neal
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