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Yes it’s a big deal, only the 2nd or 3rd time in the 6 months we’ve been here and 1st time I’ve worn my rain boots. Still strange to be in winter in January. People outside the Crazy Offices commented on the boots.

So the thing to do in October is to go pumpkin shopping for Halloween. I don’t think pumpkins are eaten here, well, maybe from a can at Thanksgiving time in pie but at this time of the year orange ones in all shapes and sizes are in the market, in window displays, offices, doorsteps and porches. We were told that on a short drive south on the way to Santa Cruz we’d see fields of orange as all the pumpkins waited to be snapped up by new owners. Had to get out there! Fields of orange!

And yes there were!

They’re called pumpkin patches – rows and rows of pumpkins with a tent or small shop taking money for the pumpkins and other Halloween-related cobwebs, spiders, scaredy cats, witches hats etc etc. We hired an orange car from Zipcar (awesome!) and planned a day trip down the coast road to Santa Cruz – man those pumpkins had some prime real estate – what an ocean view!

After we picked up the one we wanted we strapped it in the back of the car for the rest of the trip to Santa Cruz and back. We weren’t really sure what we were doing but got unsolicited validation when we overheard people passing us when we left saying “wow – they got a great one”!

We have every intention of carving it when we find out how, and find something to carve it with. Although The Mister feels sorry for it living out on our balcony so he’s going to have a hard time stabbing and sawing at it!

Wanted to share these great photos I snapped on my phone this morning. I was standing alongside a woman with a tripod and a big lens with an odd stance (I figure she was doing time delay and didn’t want to bump her tripod) so I didn’t think my photos off the phone would be that great – but I think they’re impressive! And quite orange Reminded me of marveling at the first New York sunrise I saw last year.

Seems like a lot of Mister lovin’ on the site but here’s another lot of photos from him talking at WDNZ last week – professional photographer took a few shots when we agreed that The Mister’s presentation style is quite fidgety and neither of my cameras could get a clear shot of him! So visit the site and click through to your heart’s content

http://clients.wedo.net.nz/p1011807437/h299d72bf#h299d72bf

Oh! And here’s one the photographer caught of me watching The Mister’s presentation … that’s NOT boredom on my face, it’s awe

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wdcnz/sets/72157627228634772/

Thanks to WE DO Photography.

This has fast become a favourite photo of mine – featuring The Mister and orange! This is a professional shot taken by WE DO Photography who were at the inaugural WDCNZ for the day last Thursday where The Mister was speaking. He was pretty nervous but once he got up on stage, he was fantastic (as always) although I won’t tell you what his talk was, it was 40 minutes of totally geekery!! (node.js for those in the know!)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wdcnz/5941653694/in/set-72157627203741560

Wow, this move to San Francisco is getting real now. Finalising tickets came and went without much of a bang thanks to having made the trip a couple of times this year. But seeing the movers in the house yesterday and U.S.A. written on the boxes and the place starting to look quite uncluttered … it’s finally starting to sink in.

Moving guys are always so proficient at packing. But they do smell! Mean to say but acrid sweat and smoke hung around the house a while even though they were only here for about 45 minutes.

So there’s now a whole lot less orange in Wellington – we’ll be reunited with our stuff in the land of The Big Orange Bridge in about 2 months!

Out and about in the city today I’ve seen a LOT more people with ginger or red hair than usual – I reckon it’s because yesterday was Hug-a-ginga-day and they got lots of hugs so are feeling all confident and loved and special so they’re all out and about, their hair shining in the sun. Me included. Not that I got any more hugs than usual on hug-a-ginga-day!

Jif had his big flash camera at the zoo at the weekend so as well as the photos I posted earlier, I’ve got a couple of great, very orangey ones, and some close up ones, from his camera.

Steph came to town this weekend for a last child-free-fling with us before we move to the States so as well as visit shops in town and cough, The Mall in The Hutt, we went up to visit the orange pandas again. We made up the foursome with Jif. It was great to see them again – we saw 2 of the same and 1 different younger panda – all friendly, clambouring onto knees to get the pears and grapes.

So cute!

Willis Street is being dug up. Again. Probably for the rugby tournament that’s on sometime later this year (when is it anyway? July? August?). While I was waiting for my coffee the other day I saw this big burly digger driver with his teddy helper.