Blue Skies

 

And this ladies and gentlemen, is what I woke up to, blue skies. Gone are the clouds and the non stop rain, and welcome to the summer sun. This is the view from my lounge facing north west, when I open the blinds in the morning this is what greets me, beautiful aren't it? Now you know why I like sitting on my deck, sipping my first cuppa coffee in the mornings.

How Green?

 

Another heat wave has set in with temperatures reaching record highs but thankfully it is the weekend, and here I am sitting on my patio, there is a cooling breeze blowing down the valley which makes it all right.

With so many things going wrong, I don't have a problem as it has been handed over to God. On a daily basis, God comes through. It is the little things in life that matters and here I am admiring how green the valley looks. Beautiful! The swallows are swooping in the air catching the bugs. God is good.

Baby Moses

 

This morning I went down to the stream below my house to meet one of my inspirations, our mayor Herman Mashaba on one of his A re Sebetseng clean up Saturday Projects but I did not find our honorable mayor, instead I found these children parting the bulrushes. The mayor had been called away on an urgent matter and the Baby Moses Children's Sanctuary stepped up to the plate. They are a children's home for abandoned and abused children. 

It is a pity the mayor wasn't there as our kloof needs all the publicity and protection it deserves. At least it is in good hands with all the children I saw down in the kloof today.

Ring of Fire

What is happening in Kenmare? There I was meeting with an old acquaintance from 20 years on my deck when an orange glow started to edge up the gorge on the other side. The hot winds did not help one iota and soon it was a roaring bush fire. Those 2 white lights at the bottom right are Hanno and his team of fire fighters fighting to save their homes from this ring of fire. Thankfully no homes nor people were harmed in the fire but I can't say that for the countless animals that live in our veld. I was told that at one fire they found plenty of snakes and other animals burnt to death up against a Clearvu fence as they could not escape the flames.