I travel and house sit, seeing new places and providing a service at the same time, living in beautiful homes for free but keeping them tidy, pull a few weeds and look after animals while the owners are away. I wrote a book last month! 50k word fiction. Now poems are popping out of me and I want to paint. I’m making preserves with the fruit fallen in the spring winds and learning to blog.
This is a 3-month stint in the Bay of Plenty New Zealand. I look after Ebony, a lovely standard poodle and take her for walks twice daily in the avocado orchard next door. It’s spring here and I have a magnificent view of the daily weather changes over the Kaimai Ranges nearby. In the orchard, seasonal things happen – right now the shelter belts are being trimmed so they can’t harbour bacteria etc.
The tractor has a 4-circular saw gadget attached on a long extended arm that can move sideways along the belt or across the top. The driver is protected by a cage over the roof but it’s a noisy skilled job.
The graceful blue-green needle-foliage of the casuarina trees and the prickly resinous yellow-green foliage of Cryptomeria screech in protest at their fate, and large and small branches fall with a thud over the machine to the ground. The air is perfumed with resin and the mess is piled thigh-high beside the shelter belts. soon it will be chipped to be returned to the land.



I enjoy reading your stories, blogs etc. You have a gift with words. Don’t know if you will get this, none of my other comments seem to reach you. You must be about ready to leave again. Good luck with your travel, finding a place to stay, having your knee op etcetc. And your novel. Keep me posted. I am having a massive clear out in our spare room….next time you should have a whole room to yourself. New electric blanket too……………. Luv and hugs……………Eunice
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Hi Eunice, Well I got it this time! When I come over to the Eastern Bay I’ll pop in and see you but will ring first. It’ll be the last week in Oct.
Hugs and thanks for your kind words
Kinsa
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Wow, this is awesome! Lovely photos. Hugs 🙂
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just written a song/poem for children called Ebony and me in the Orchard. Just now.
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Great opportunity to write as you house and dog sit in interesting surroundings…best wishes on your book!
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