Today is the first day of Autumn... I can see the change in the colour of the sky and the leaves starting to change colour and drop to the ground. The change of season always makes me happy, I love winter and this year I know I'm not going to miss the snow in Nieu-Bethesda. This year my Life Story is going to be "A Winter's Tale" but not just another winter's tale like in the song by David Essex, which I used to listen to when I was young. It's going to be "My Winter's Tale".
I am sitting on the stoep of The Karoo Lamb, watching the tourists go by, almost like watching the girls go by in Paris :) Feeling grateful that I don't have to leave the village, knowing my house is just around the corner. Feeling very happy and alive, I'm waiting for the quote from the builder to renovate my garage. Can't wait to get my little shop going.
This afternoon I will be visiting a friend, Hester, at Ganora Guest farm. Am so excited, they are currently rehabilitating a baby Meerkat named Timon and I'm hoping to meet the little fellow. They are so cute, but unfortunately not fit to be kept as pets. People take these babies and on realising they are not ideal pets, abandon them. And that's how they end up at Ganora.
I met Abraham Casper on Monday afternoon, gave him a lift into Nieu-Bethesda. He was born here in the village and have lived here his whole life, he is now 43 but looks 60. He makes the cement owls that they sell in front of the Owl House and he sells them over holiday periods, the rest of the year he works on the surrounding farms when there is work. A hard life, but he says he is happpy and content. He told me all about the surrounding farms and who lives where, about all the village folk who has died in car accidents on that treacherous road from the N9 to Nieu-Bethesda. He told me about growing lusern and when to take them off the fields. We talked about life in the city vs life in a rural area. I want him to teach me to work with cement so I can make my own creations. hmmmm... We will have to see what comes from that...
I love the rural life :) but I also love my blackberry and my i-Pad, it keeps me connected and enables me to read my magazines and all the latest books... so many books, so little time.
So let me read further...
PS: as soon as I get my computer from Jhb or figure out how to post photo's from my i-Pad I will start posting pics, promise
Jules love & hugs <3
I am sitting on the stoep of The Karoo Lamb, watching the tourists go by, almost like watching the girls go by in Paris :) Feeling grateful that I don't have to leave the village, knowing my house is just around the corner. Feeling very happy and alive, I'm waiting for the quote from the builder to renovate my garage. Can't wait to get my little shop going.
This afternoon I will be visiting a friend, Hester, at Ganora Guest farm. Am so excited, they are currently rehabilitating a baby Meerkat named Timon and I'm hoping to meet the little fellow. They are so cute, but unfortunately not fit to be kept as pets. People take these babies and on realising they are not ideal pets, abandon them. And that's how they end up at Ganora.
I met Abraham Casper on Monday afternoon, gave him a lift into Nieu-Bethesda. He was born here in the village and have lived here his whole life, he is now 43 but looks 60. He makes the cement owls that they sell in front of the Owl House and he sells them over holiday periods, the rest of the year he works on the surrounding farms when there is work. A hard life, but he says he is happpy and content. He told me all about the surrounding farms and who lives where, about all the village folk who has died in car accidents on that treacherous road from the N9 to Nieu-Bethesda. He told me about growing lusern and when to take them off the fields. We talked about life in the city vs life in a rural area. I want him to teach me to work with cement so I can make my own creations. hmmmm... We will have to see what comes from that...
I love the rural life :) but I also love my blackberry and my i-Pad, it keeps me connected and enables me to read my magazines and all the latest books... so many books, so little time.
So let me read further...
PS: as soon as I get my computer from Jhb or figure out how to post photo's from my i-Pad I will start posting pics, promise
Jules love & hugs <3
Hi daar KarooSiel, ek wonder nou juis wanneer sien ons pics. Dit klink of die karoo medesyne al goed werk en diep in die joints in getrek het. Tanja is by n Burlesque dans klas so ek sit hier in n bar met n lang bier met n suiplappie onder die glas. Uniondale se daars nog niks, net die een plaas maar die eienaar is steeks met sy prys. Ons gaan einde maart op vakansie en gaan dalk daar by jou verby kom as ons hopenlik na n plaas kan gaan kyk. O ja ek het n baie interesante boudoir shoot gehad met n nude en n leislang. Nie gedink die outjie het soveel spoed nie. Maar is baie te vrede met die eind resultaat.
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