Tuesday, March 11, 2014

It’s my birthday; it’s really my birthday now!




Not a stutter but my birthday 11/03 (March 11) is today in Anchorage, AK where I was born at 0449 and yesterday here in Auckland.  So I’ll celebrate twice as hard or easy as the adjectives fit.

We are expecting a cyclone to form up over the north of the northern island and hope for rain this coming weekend.  We’ve have marvelous down pours, usually at night, which trounced the metal roof and made me feel safe and secure indoors.  But there is an undeclared drought in existence now for the north of Auckland.  In ’11 we were flying from the Cook Islands to Auckland and were delayed a day or so because of a cyclone which, according the news reports then, caused severe wind shears at the airport. Would love to see what the wind will do to our placid bay.  Will take pictures.

 
Placidity and good vegetarian food we found at the East Tamaki Buddhist Temple/Monastery.  It was built by Chinese people from Taiwan.  Stepping over the embankment into the courtyard was a quick trip into many of the Asian cities we have visited.  We plan to attend the 10am meditation series every Saturday morning 
there.


Off to walk around the neighborhood with a neighbor.  Life is good!

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