A whole day without feeling any earthquakes

After writing my first blog I thought that I should probably have called the rumblings after all the earthquakes we have been having but hopefully they will fade away soon.  I felt as though I was tempting fate to say no earthquakes for a whole day but I haven't felt another one since writing it.  Craig is complaining that he doesn't wake up in the earthquakes unless he is being hugged rather ferociously.  I can't believe that anyone would complain about being hugged but there you have it.  He said that the other blokes at his work are all having the same problem and they all think they would sleep through the earthquakes if it wasn't for their partners!
The earthquake has been doing strange things to people.  Who would have thought that Bob Parker would become so popular that in the Auckland supercity he is the preferred mayor as well!
7.1 shakes are certainly enough to put everyone on edge but I think it is the aftershocks and the continuous broken sleep that doesn't help.
It is good the big storm didn't eventuate to anything much in Canterbury with everyone having broken houses it would not have helped to have snow in abundance as well.
Craig has enjoyed the fine weather he had me out in the garden yesterday and I pruned the rose garden and the proteas which has led to him weeding around the roses and laying horse manure with sawdust which he managed to get out Lincoln somewhere.  I hope the roses will come away again as it is rather late to be pruning them in spring.  I was still quite hard on them but not as hard as I would have been in winter.  It is amazing we have had roses flowering all through winter.  Not many but there has consistently been flowers but they have not been at their best but they have had some colour. Craig's enthusiasm for gardening is great.