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Sometimes, something happens, and I think, "I must be doing something right" Today, this was it.

Le Creuset wok. Red. Salvation Army. $40. Excellent condition. Best I can figure, these don't seem to be available in NZ anymore (and after 2005 they started making then with a glass lid), but the large frypans retail at $250 - $500. :) EXTREME EXCITEMENT.

Lovely Max wrap dress. Salvation Army. $6. I'm wearing it out to dinner tonight to celebrate Mexican Flag day! Weeeeeeee!

I made Vegan Chilli Chocolate cupcakes to take with me.

What I did for my holidays

Well, actually, I didn't really have holidays. But I did go down to Rotorua for Raggamuffin, and let me tell you, I can't wait for the next one! Breakfast at Zippy's, a night at the Thermal Holiday Park, and a day barfoot on the grass drinking beer and listening to reggae.

Here is a very small portion of my tomato crop. Low acid Roma tomato's in the front there, and a selection from a mixed 6 pack of seedlings at the back. I grew them in big white buckets against the north side of the house (which is the sunniest spot on our section, but is also our concrete driveway :( ) Applications of fish fertilizer and constant watering resulted in a bumper crop. They are finishing up just as my dad's fancy heirloom tomatos are ripening. How convenient! Sadly, my eggplants are not doing so well. Some mysterous pest has laid eggs in every one of the fruit and they are all infested with the hatchling grubs. :'(

In other news, next saturday I'm off on the "Waves and Wheels to Opua" train trip. Yippee!!!! Auckland to Whangarei by train on the north-western line, Whangerei to Opua by coach, And then Opua to Auckland by boat going around all the little inlets. Can't wait.

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