Fattys ;)

September 21 2013

So ,there's two things I want to cover tonight. The first is dressing up as fattys and old people and running down the road looking like idiots, and the other is making grapefruit juice in the back yard. Dressing up as fattys; one of our favorite sister activity which consisted of stuffing baggy clothes with pillows and running down the road to Waiotira Primary School in 28 degree heat. We use to do this all the time,Danielle and I would help each other stuff our clothes but when Sophie asked we couldn't be bothered because our fatness made it hard to move. (Must have been hard being the youngest) This one time, Danielle and I mixed up a paste of flour and water and rubbed it onto our faces. When it dried...it dried like old ,cracked skin! Looked exactly like wrinkles, so we stuffed our clothes, grabbed dad's crutches from when he broke his leg in the motorbike accident, and walked across the road to Pete and Jos' to get some Halloween candy. I've probably still got the pictures of that somewhere.

Hot days called for desperate measures. Aside from the Waiotira school pool ,the only way to stay refreshed was to make some grapefruit juice from the tree Henry planted in the back yard. Me and my sisters would pick 20 or 30 grapefruit from the tree ,cut them all individually, and prepare them to be squeezed and made into a very concentrated fruit juice. By the time we had added 9,000,000 cups of sugar to sweeten the mixture ,we were always left with a mountain of fruit scraps ,which would be fed to the pigs.Now...on a hot summers day ,while we were enjoying our grapefruit juice, the pigs would be having a horrible time with diahoroeoa. Weren't we nice. :)

Lately I've noticed that life is honestly a beautiful thing. Nature is beautiful, it's amazing. The sky, the colours, the environment, it is all so stunning and there are no words to describe how fascinating the Earth we live on is. Tonight I saw the moon in a clear sky,and it looked amazing. It was so huge and bright,and the few clouds that were surrounding it were lit up by the brightness of it. We pulled out the huge telescope to have a look when we got home, but it wasn't working / it started to rain as well, so we gave up for the night. I love astronomy. I remember going on the Wellington trip when I was in year 5 and we went to the Carter Observatory ....now that was cool! Well,what I can remember of it.