Morning Mist

 

Wow this weather has changed again, yesterday was freezing cold, and today it is slightly warming with our home shrouded in a thick mist. Ahhh I want to just sit here on my deck, sip coffee, and enjoy this beautiful morning, but sadly I have to drag myself away and get me self to work.  

Just one more sip of coffee, then I'll go...

Misty Morning

 

By now you must have seen many sunset photos taken from our patio, but what is the view during the day? Well I can't show you much this morning, as we woke up in the clouds. Well that rules out taking the Vespa to church, oh well not much to see on this misty Sunday morning. I bet it is going to be muggy down in the valley.

Misty Morning

 

The drive to work this morning has taken an eerie term, with the whole neighbourhood smothered with a thick blanket of mist. It is the school holidays which means that not many cars were on the roads at this ungodly hour of 6am. Yes I would love to be still in my warm bed, snuggling under the covers but we have to work, so to beat the broken traffic lights I am on my way early in this mist.

Misty Monday

 

We woke up this Monday to some light drizzle and mist everywhere. After our quiet time, I sat alone on the patio with a lovely mug of coffee, enjoying what God has given us before I set out to start the day. The beauty of the mist, with only the birds tweeting away, no noise from traffic, no bustle of the rat race. Just me, God and this mist.

"Thank you God, for all your blessings". Now let the week begin!

Mist Rolls In

The Jozi weather is slowly changing from summer into autumn. We had a lovely summer thunderstorm mid afternoon then the mist rolled in. Silient fingers of white mist was creeping down into the gorge though the veil of low clouds. Standing on my deck hoping to catch a lovely sunset, the mist had this sinister feel to it with not a sound of birds or other wildlife.

Guineafowls in the Mist

It rained quite a bit yesterday and into the night that the temperatures dropped considerably. We woke up to the noisy guineafowls making a racket just outside in the veldt. Finally crawling out of bed to get ready for church, I saw that the valley below us was shrouded in a blanket of thick mist. I could not even see the other side but the guineafowls were sure having fun.

Misty Monday Rainy Monday

Monday, Monday, Monday! Sigh!

This morning we woke to soft rain with our home up in the clouds. The gardener arrived but what can one do with rain coming in waves. So not to disappoint him and send him home, I decided that he could do maintenance chores around the home and I had two tasks that I have been putting off for quite some time now, one was to put up the extra fencing to keep the dogs from going into the nature reserve, and the other was dismantle the dog house and rebuild it at the back.

The rain held out while the fencing went up much to the disappointment of the dogs. It was while I was helping the gardener with the fencing, that I noticed a rather large snake skin just outside our wall. It looks like it could be a puff adder or night adder skin but more the reason keep our dogs out.

Halfway through the dismantling of the dog house, the rain said bugger that, and started bucketing down. My well laid out plans had to change; it is now a dismantled dog’s house under the car port and a soaked me in the shower.

Monday, Monday, Monday! Sigh!

Prescribed Weekend

It is a misty start to my Friday, the last day of the week before the weekend kicks in followed by some well deserved leave. It was a tough few weeks but here I am at the start of some R&R and I wake up with the mist right up to my porch.

By the time I got onto the highway to work, the sun was piercing through the mist, making it glow orange me squint my eyes just to get going. Oh and note to self, time for some prescription sunglasses.

Bosasa in the Mist

The weather look ominous this morning with dark clouds but the weather report said only 7% chance of rain with it clearing about lunch time. Meh, the Vespa will have to do.

So off I set on my beloved Scarlet, a red Vespa GTS300ie Super, and as I reached the Witwatersrand Ridge that runs along the side of Roodepoort and Krugersdorp, the clouds and ground met in a haze of mist. Vespa in the mist reminded me of our Father and Son Road Trip down to the slow veldt not so long ago.

And so I arrived at Bosasa under a heavy blanket of fog or is it mist, I am never quite sure. With visibility way down, I felt all alone in this surreal surroundings of mist and concrete.

Jerome in the Fog

Wow, I woke up this Monday morning with a thick fog blanketing everything with visibility down to about 20 metres. The question arose, should I go back to bed or get going and somehow find my way to work. Oh course the latter decision won.

Thank goodness that it is school holidays, as the road from my home leads up to a T-junction on the main road with a rural school at the corner. Normally there would be children everywhere crossing the main road, children kicking a soccer ball around, children walking along the road, and busses stopping with children scrambling off. Today with this mist and the cars which fly along the main road would be a recipe for disaster.

When I arrived at the T-junction all I could see was nothing at first then in the fog about 50m away I saw some car lights which flew passed. Wow surely these cars could at least slow down especially near this school. I just prayed a quick prayer asking that everyone had their lights on and then went for the gap.

River of Mist

The temperatures dropped below freezing along the Jukskei River in the early hours of this morning. I awoke after a coughing episode all throughout last night, to a beautiful river of mist flowing downstream along the Jukskei River.

Yes it was freezing and this cold bug which I have contracted doesn’t help one iota. I had to pull on some thermal underwear, okay overshare, under my normal work clothes just to be able to stay warm while riding to work this morning.

Of course I needed to be well lubricated with cough medicine before setting out for work only to find out that when I arrived at work, the security at the gate were doing alcohol testing of everyone coming in. I tried to explain the the security guard that I had just taken cough medicine before being tested but luckily nothing registered on the blower thingy and I was let in unceremoniously.

In the end of it all, I am not feeling too well even though everything around me is beautiful.