Hello hello,
For those of you who have been on a while, you may remember me. I moved
from Chicago, IL to Savannah, GA just about a year ago. I love Savannah
and the warm weather. Fantastic. Work has simply been keeping me overly
busy since I arrived, no time for much anything.
However, I'm on the move again! I met a wonderful woman on an online
support group for folks who were widowed young (of all places!). After
talking for nearly a year, we realized that some feelings had developped,
and she came to visit to see if what was online translated in real
life. It did, beyond our wildest expectations. Since I cannot sponsor her
to move here, I'm moving to her. To New Zealand.
I am able to bring my Big Blak Wunder Dawg, Wix my service dog. She won't
have to do quarantine, but that was quite a bit of hoop jumping and endless
blood tests.
I am unable to bring my trees :-( I looked into the import requirements of
some plants (rosa and acer in particular). It's just wild. Tempting as it
is to sneak something past, it's just daft so, I won't do it.
I'll be transporting my pots, and cross fingers and toes that there isn't
too much damage. Tempted to label them "fragile", but then my cynical self
tells me that the shipping folks will only be tempted to drop the boxes
labelled fragile!!!
The good thing is I'm going to marry a woman who loves plants, roses in
particular. She's also had her garden go untended for a while after her
late husband passed away, which means we can build a new garden that
belongs to us, that will have rose area, bonsai areas, growing beds, and
all that good stuff.
I'm looking forward to learn about the local trees that do well as
bonsai. I'm looking forward to meet the local folks.
I understand Reiner will be in NZ just as I arrive there myself, alas,
there's no way I can meet with him or go to that conference in Christchurch :-(
I'll be going to Palmerston North, in the North Island, about 2 hours North
of Wellington, 7 South of Auckland. I leave Savannah right after Labor Day
weekend (trying to avoid traffic), drive to Montreal on Sept. 2 to say bye
to parents and friends, then Chicago for a few days. Fly out of Chicago on
the 18th, stop in Los Angeles, and arrive in NZ on Sept 20.
Sooo, here I am for a while!
Cheers
Nic
Savannah, GA, en route to New Zealand.
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