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To: abuelita who wrote (71578)	12/10/2009 8:21:17 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

Rose, you are creating great envy. Perhaps you don't know that there are people on this planet who do not have fat, dumb and happy hens like that, fed on delicious wild food by the look of it, laying superlative eggs, with bigger, fatter, dumber and happier salmon lolling around the ocean. I was taunted just yesterday with a report of chilly bins loaded with crayfish, scallops, snapper from Great Barrier Island shipped to Rangataua [my taunter's abode]. I am scoffing fresh grapefruit off our tree right now, which is good, but that's not in the same class as top eggs and fresh wild ocean salmon. When standards of living are compared around the world, too often they are measured in GDP per capita, numbers of televisions, SUVs, bathrooms, and such material possessions. My pecking order of things I want is not quite the normal one. Today for example, was supreme - doubling our 2 year old grand daughter on my 25 year old bicycle, her sitting on the bar [with an old towel and some polystyrene as padding], holding onto the handlebars, collecting flowers en route to poke into holes I drilled in the old headlight and to stuff in a little hole higher up where a reflector used to be. It's summer. It's sunny, blue sky, warm. We went today to Parents Inc. where there are some things to play with she likes, then to the supermarket where the fish blokes who think she's really really cute, which she is, served us some salmon and snapper. We biked across to the fruit and veggie shop where we got [today] strawberries, cherries, grapes, beans, bananas, Pacific Rose apples [there's a good name]. Between the supermarket and fruit shop we diverted across the car park to McDonalds to use the toilet, get some chips [with tomato sauce] and play in the children's playground. Then stop off to visit Paddy the Irish Setter on the way home who comes running to his gate to see us. She reaches through the bars to get hold of him and he leans up against the bars so she can get a good grip. There are of course lots of details between major events. She can steer us now, if it's wide enough [narrow footpaths are difficult]. Life doesn't get any better - but having some of your eggs and that salmon would have been an improvement. Beans fresh from our own garden would be better still, but the bought ones are pretty good and one shouldn't moan about trivia. There is much more to life than SUVs, tv, and other high GDP per capita objects and activities. A $100 million "yacht" would not have improved my happiness. But wait, there's more. Earlier, grandson [4] and I did the same thing, but to Newmarket to get the mail from the PO Box. The new viaduct under construction is more a bloke's thing than flowers in the handlebars. Double Supreme is good - please send eggs and salmon for Quadruple Supreme. Mqurice PS: Note to self = check gold price [and GLD, NEM too] and NZ$/US$ exchange rates.