Hi Cathie, I've always wondered what the weather in New Zealand was really like. But I guess we all live with the good and bad weather conditions of mother nature. I am on the Cdn. prairies smack in the middle of the country and right now we have quite a cold spring. I've not seen it like this in early June before. Usually everything is growing like wild and this year even the trees are struggling to get their leaves. We occassionally get fog here as we are near a lake. The scenery is lovely but never quite "breathtaking". Except for the sunsets. We do have beautiful sunsets. We also have fairly reasonable hydro costs so in this part of the country we are known to have the heat on warm & toasty in all months of the year. But wind generated power has really taken off here in Manitoba. Many country people have large windmills and sell the power back to the hydro company.
So do you have sheep where you are? I love to hear about New Zealand. I am also curious to know whether people wear more "woolens" in New Zealand especially where the weather is damp. As for tv and spinning, I don't often spin with the tv on because I find it does affect my treadling. But more than tv I find that my level of fatigue or stress will affect the treadling and outcome. It is a little like the wheel -- circular! I spin to relax but have to be relaxed in order to spin well. And even the weather affects that. It summer it is too hot to spin wool or angora here but in winter I hate to take the wool off the angora rabbits I have to have enough of my own fiber to spin. Actually this weather is lovely spinning weather. Regards, Dianne [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
