Jack and Katrina's Place

Last weekend we went up to Tokomaru where there is a steam engine museum. Jack's Aunty Lyn, Stephen Alex and Tessa had driven down from Auckland to spend the school holidays with relatives in Fielding. Tokomaru museum has a collection of industrial steam engines saved from factories as they closed. They are all housed in a building and this was one of the days when they fired up the boiler and opened all the valves to turn on the collection of engines. Even the little tank engine was doing laps of the track around the edge of the park. Alex Jack and Stephen share a a fascination for these sort of things. Guy interests we don't know yet, but the whistle certainly caught his attention. He was also very interested in the sheep droppings which he is showing Tessa. While waiting for the museum to open we visited Matatoa nursery and bought two small Miro trees, two Tawas and two Kohekohe for the reforestation of the bottom half of our section.