First – from Grandma’s Diary
May 4, 1914 – Monday, worked in garden, painted wood, father was here for dinner, set two hens.
May 5, 1914 – Tuesday, cleaned cellarway, painted three chairs, the dellar door and butter bowl, worked in garden, father was here for dinner, set a hen.
May 6, 1914 – Wednesday, done washing, cleaned silverware, was over home.
May 7, 1914 – Thursday, ironed, mended, helped cut a few potatoes for planting.
May 8, 1914 – Friday, baked seventy cookies, churned butter, cleaned cellar, mended.
May 9, 1914 – Saturday, done Saturdays work, baked seven loaves of bread, fourteen pies and a cake.
May 10, 1914 – Sunday, went to Sunday school, Mr. and Mrs. Boyer and three children, Sam and Sadie, Mr. and Mrs. Miller, Mr. Upp, father and mother was here for dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Bader and two children, Walter and Maud Smith and Hazel was here in afternoon, Uncle Eph, Les Keiser and family, Bert Smith and family called in afternoon, read three chapters of Jeremiah.
Finally I’m getting a little caught up with Grandma. I’m only a few days behind now. Grandma was a busy person doing her daily “work” plus all the other things on a day to day basis. Weekends get really busy with a lot of company with a lot of visitors on Sundays. Saturday she did a lot of baking and my guess is that all the pies and bread lasted the coming week besides for the visitors on Sunday. My father used to say that they many times had pie for breakfast.
The trip in New Zealand is going very well. The last time I mentioned travel from Christchurch to Dunedin.
From Dunedin we traveled from the east coast over towards the west coast to Te Anau. You cannot drive all the way to the west coast of the south island on the south end because of the huge Fjordland National Park that takes up the whole southwest end of the country. From Te Anau you can branch off to either Doubtful Sound or Milford Sound. We have been opting for the Real Journeys bus trip from Te Anau to Milford. It’s a full day with Real Journeys picking us up at the campground around 9:30 AM and then dropping us off around 5 PM. We let the driving to them as the drive can be real challenging especially if you run into any snow. No worries about that this year as the weather was beautiful.
At the dock we boarded the “Sinbad” and took the nature tour this time with a naturalist aboard who gave a running commentary and also answered any questions that you had. The water was smooth and it was a nice boat trip out to the Tasman Sea for the turn around. One thing this year was a number of albatross following the ship out at the Tasman. They weren’t the Royal albatross that we saw at the Albatross Center in Dunedin but they were large. Along the way we also saw a number of fur seals lounging on the rocks.
The fjord is full of natural beauty from the straight vertical cliffs rising 3,000 to 5,000 ft. Also a number of water falls with long vertical drops are a beautiful addition.
On the drive over to Te Anau we stopped at the Croyden Aircraft Works where they rebuild classic and antique aircraft. They also have the museum in operation now which is a separate operation. It’s all new and this year it has been completed with a nice welcome desk area and the hangar all real spiffy.
Inside the old corrugated hangars where the rebuilding goes on they were completely rebuilding a Beech Staggerwing biplane. This is labor intensive and expensive. But if you want it done right this is the place to have it done.
The Tiger Moth that I had a ride in a couple years ago stays in the museum except when it is taken out to be exercised for rides. It plus a couple other Moths are in the museum.
I looked for Hobbitts but didn't meet any.
Ponga tree view from top.
Milford opening to Tasman Sea.
Some beautiful red hydrangas at the campground.
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