[Ag-eq] A litt of this and a little of that

[Jewel]

Below is part of a letter that I sent to a friend .
I have cut out what was specific to her, but the rest of it is ok for the general list.
My sister, Deslie drives to Christchurch today, Thursday, but she does not leave New Zealand until 
Sunday.
First she flies to Australia where Liz, her Boston Terrier devotee friend will join her, and then it 
is across the Pacific to Los Angeles and then Las vegas.
I didn't ask her what the name is of the hotel that she will be staying in, but she says that it is 
the only hotel in Vegas that doesn't have a single gambling machine.
We are inclined to think that LV is just a lot of casinos joined by a bit of space, not realising 
that it, in many respects, is just an ordinary American city!
Now some BlanchRanch news.
I have my lamgs in today's stock sales, and will sell the ewes later when I have used up all the 
winter feed that I still have on hand.
>From this winter on, I will have no stock on the ranch: buying in supplies of winter feed is just 
too expensive.
I still have the last effects of the mild outbreak of Shingles, but they are, gradually, 
disappearing: thank gof for that!
With all that's going on in the USA, I doubt that there is much time given to minor events in 
Australia and New Zealand, but some days ago, a cyclone, named Debbie, swept through Northern 
Queensland. N Q got the wind, but it was Brisbane and other parts of southern Queensland that got 
the rain, and there has been severe flooding there: one ex-Kiwi woman and 2 of her 3 children were 
drowned when the van she was driving was swept into a flooded river. There were 3 children in the 
van, but 1 of them, a 9-year-old girl managed to escape and ran for 2 miles in bare feet to get 
help, but by the time that it arrived, of course, it was too late.
Now, what is left of Debbie has crossed the Tasman and dumped huge amounts of rain on central and 
northern areas of the North Island, and has caused major flooding and land slippage there.
In Southland, we are too far south to be touched by weather bombs that are built in the tropics. 
This is yet another example of what I find myself saying on a daily basis, " SOUTHLAND! New 
Zealand's best-kept secret and long may it remain so!"
The house beside me is tennantless again, just in case any of you are tempted!

Jewel
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