Philosophy of Stay in Touch - Geoff's journey
Friday, May 18, 2012....
more snow and two cars
Since last weeks post we have had more snow in the mountains and the Minorett's above taken from inside the new cinema looked beautiful and made me think of the ski season which is just 6 weeks away.
Also 6 weeks away is the opening of the new cinema and below is one of the cars which will be at the front, the car was donated by the transport museum at Wanaka airport and will be a popular place in the new cinema to view a movie.
Above the car Craig sprayed and Calum and Garrick worked on at the barnarriving on the trailer at the new cinema.
Above after 5 of us carried it in off the trailer in up the tier's, the exact position for it has not been decided yet but it will be in the back corner probably a little lower downd than where it is in the photo.
Below Calum the boss sitting in the car.
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Sunday, May 13, 2012....
Woke up yesterday with new snow on the mountains, with the ski season starting at the end of June the saying here is if it snows in May it goes away but with snow in the forecast in the mountains till Wednesday we always hope it stays to give us a good base to start the season.
Over the weekend Cal and Craig worked on the car, above Craig cut the back off carried by Craig and Cal below, the back of the car will go into a selected area in the cinema which has not been decided yet.
Saturday the skies looked dark and ready for rain so we put the car on the trailer and drove it under the car port (below) at the back of the Barn for them to carry with the body work.
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Friday, May 11, 2012....
Its been another busy week in the progression of the new cinema, above Craig has worked most of the week finishing off laying the cobble stones.
Below is the finished product at the front entrance to the cinema on the left and the cafe entrance and exit on the right.
Below is the finished cobble stones at the rear entrance on the right and the service area on the left which will be covered and closed in and is the rear entrance into the kitchen.
All these stones were lifted out from the new closed in area's which have been raised to the existing concrete floor level of the building.
Below is a front view shot of the new cinema which is planed to open at the end of June.
There has not been much progress to the inside this week as we are waiting for the two cars that will be in the cinema, below is one of the cars we picked up last weekend and it was delivered to Calums house on Monday.
Today the team above of Calum, Craig and Garrick started work on cutting out parts and bits that we no longer need and Craig far right in the photo below with his car body skills lead the way.
There is another car which is arriving we hope this weekend from Geraldine all finished and ready to go in.
Once the cars are in we can then finish off the internal walls and tiered seating which will hopefully be this time next week.
Until then the doors and windows in the extended area's in the above photo's will be installed and exterior cladding fixed.
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Sunday, May 6, 2012....
New cinema progessing
Last week at work there was some good progress at the old catholic Church. i shoukd now say progress at the new cinema as it is more like a cinema now than a church.
above Calum (the owner of Cinema Paradiso) and Craig job for the week was preparing and laying of the cobblestones we took up from the old building in the Verandah and Entrance area's.
The area above and below is going to be a outside area covered and closed in with corrugated Clearlite for the roofing and post's and fence for the walls.
Then later in the week they worked on the rear path way into the Entrance porch.
Inside Greg and I worked on the framing of the rear section and finishing off the tier's (below)and laying the particle board flooring.
Below is Calum the owner of Cinema Paradiso, he is one of the work team renovating the building into the new Paradiso.
Photo was taken Friday after work where the team had a few beers to toast a good weeks work in the progress of the cinema being ready for the end of June.
Below is a photo of Lake Hawea at mid day after the sun had burnt off the inversion layer of cloud we had all morning.
I rode up to Hawea to do a 15 minute job at a friends rental property before having a Chai latte at the local cafe and then rode back home, the return trip took two and a half hours.
Back home I spent the rest of the afternoon to sunset working on my garden, it was another lovely calm Autumn day.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012....
The last two weeks we have been back working
on the new cinema at the old Catholic church.
Right is a photo of the existing car port which is
going to be the entrance hall.
Left is the Entrance taking shape with the new walls which closes it in.
Right is the Verandah area which is going to be
part of the cafe seating area
Left the area now with a new concrete floor and external walls closing in the Verandah
Right the internal walls starting to go up which will have the tier seating in photo below starting to be installed.
posted by Geoff's Journey # 4:23 AM 0 Comments
Saturday, April 21, 2012....
Riding the Fishermans track
Went for a ride along the Fisherman's track yesterday to take some photo's of the colors, above the track runs along the bottom of the trees in photo.
Above the bird life is also good along the track with Fantails and Herons and also above a Shag just about to take off. I took a few photo's of it while it was still on the branch and then a dog came along with its owner and ran to the waters edge which made the bird get ready to take off.
Another beauty about our rivers here is the clearness of the water and as you can see in the photo above you can see the trout swimming around looking for food, every time I see this it makes me want to invest in a fly rod and start fishing again.
Also further along the track on my way home there are a couple of Chestnut trees and a Walnut tree where I did some gathering, above I saw a chestnut still sitting in its opened casing which was worth a photo.
Then coming out of the track into Albert town the willow's and Poplars tree's looked awesome in their Autumn colors.
:-)
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Friday, April 20, 2012....
Summer/Autumn in the Garden
Above is a photo of my garden which got overgrown during my time off with my shoulder and my plan for the spring and the summer was to tidy it up and below last weekend the photo shows where I am at the moment.
The photo below is some work we did at the back of Calum's house, there was grass there before and it is now a much cleaner and tidier area where they wash the dogs. We turfed up the grass which we put in the first section above and the soil underneath the grass we barrowed over to the fenced off area and I covered it with grass seed and it is now coming through so the whole area is a lot neater than the top photo now.
Just next to that area next to the barn is my veggie area and above some of the tomatoes I picked a few weeks ago and below what is left on the vine's.
It has been another good year for tomatoes and this year I had some Zebra types for the first time and they are very nice.
Above I'm still getting courgettes and have been since February and they are still coming through so they have been a bumper year, I have made up a tomato sauce with them ,mushroom's and onions and have frozen them for when they stop supplying me with their fruits.
I'm also still getting Broccoli and beetroot and some of the Leeks are almost ready to use.
Its been a GR8 growing summer and the North Islanders are saying its their worst summer for years down here in the south Island we are saying its been one of the best.
:-)
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Thursday, April 5, 2012....
Good Friday, Biking and Autumn colors
Mt Golds.This morning at 10 I went for a bike ride along the rivers to the Outlet where the Clutha River starts at Lake Wanaka. Apart from the joy of riding my bike along our rivers I wanted to take some photo's of the Autumn colors along out rivers and Lake.
Mt Maud and the Clutha river.As you can see it was another Calm sunny Autumn day, we've had this for two weeks now, its a little cool in the morning but the days have been reaching the early twenties.
Clutha river.to get to the outlet we ride along the fishermans track, it runs along the river bank at the bottom of the poplar tree's above and below you can see it on the left of the picture with Mt Fog and Lake Wanaka in the back ground.
Fisherman's track and Clutha river.
Treble Cone.I got to the Outlet and I was enjoying my ride so much I decided to carry on round the lake and into Wanaka. Along the way I took the photo above of Treble Cone which is where we ski in the winter which opens on June 28th.
When I got to Wanaka 2 hours after leaving home I had a Soy Chai latte at Soul Foods our local organic shop/cafe and then rode back home in a hour and a half, stopping now and then to take photo's but I took a lot more on the way to Wanaka.
Heron on the Cardrona river.posted by Geoff's Journey # 9:19 PM 0 Comments
Sunday, April 1, 2012....
Autumn riding the river trails
Its been almost a month since I last wrote and put pictures on this site.
All is good and my shoulder is coming along well and I'm now in my 9th week of my gym program with one week left.
I'm really enjoying the gym and have decided to carry it on till the end of the year after the ACC program has finished, the surgeon said it would be a slow getting my strength back so it feels right to carry on with the gym work.
Its handling the work well and we are just waiting now for the building consent to arrive so we can carry on with the new cinema, which should be with us early this week.
The last two weekends I have been for a bike ride along our local rivers, last Sunday I rode along the Hawea river to Hawea and took the photo's above and below.
It is now Autumn and the trees are starting to turn color as you can see in the top photo, below the mountains at the far end of Lake Hawea had some new snow on them which fell overnight.
Because we had a rain down low and cold temperatures this brings on the mushrooms and one of my favorite's is the Shaggy ink cap (photo below). There was also the normal field mushrooms about which one of my friends gathered and brought some round.
The Walnuts are also falling along with the Pears and Apples which grow freely around the lake shore and in our parks.
Today after watching English football and doing some gardening I went for a ride along the Clutha river towards Luggate where I took the photo's above and below.
The weather has been typically Autumn the last four days, cool mornings and still sunny days
I love this time of year not just because of the beautiful days with the Autumn colors but the gathering/harvesting of all the nuts, fruit and mushrooms.
The fields and river banks are also covered with rose hip bushes which were apparently brought here by the Chinese in the gold rush days which they used as a tea to prevent scurvy. I have drunk Rose hip tea and it is a nice herbal tea.
They look lovely in Autumn with their red hips in abundance against the Autumn colors (above).
On the way back home along the river the view of the Clutha with mountains in the background (above) always looks lovely but Autumn with the colors looks extra special and will look even more so over the next few weeks.
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