Category: Life in General
Day-to-day life, nothing important or connected to something or somewhere specific.
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Winter is setting in, but the snow has not yet (fully) arrived.
Skiing season at Mt Hutt opened this weekend, BUT, yes a very big but, the weather has not played its part during the last two weeks. Mt Hutt was set to open last Friday, but remained closed to open yesterday, but only the lower part of the mountain. Today…
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Most of my day was spent at “The Office”.
My home office that is, I read through and checked all the final quotation and insurance paperwork for moving the car from South Africa to New Zealand. Printed, signed, scanned and sent everything off, so there is absolutely NO turning back now. Still figuring out ways to determine the…
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Packed my paragliding reserve parachute.
After “airing” it out overnight, it was time to get it all back in my harness, It is all part of maintenance, recommended yearly if you did not need to deploy your reserve. So after pulling it all out yesterday (Thanks Clint) and airing it overnight, it was time…
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A small window to fly at Taylor’s Mistake today.
After lots of parawaiting I need to add, There was (what turned out to be an extremely) small window to fly at Taylor’s Mistake today. Sorry no photo’s or video’s of/from me, it was really tiny. The flight plan was pretty much: 1. Takeoff, 2. Climb quickly before heading…