Happy Blog.............................

I have decided to step off my soap box and go outside for a walk in the garden instead. 

Good choice !

We have summer in South Africa and with summer comes the strangest weather patterns of sun, with 34 deg C one second and pouring rain or worse hail, and 15 deg C the next. 

You can have 4 seasons in a day, kid you not and that is what happened on Thursday and Friday. Was soooo cold.   

Today the  air is fresh and redolent of crushed flowers fallen from the blooming spring trees during the storm, that passed this afternoon. 

The birds are singing in the trees, looking for the first ray of sunshine and waiting for me to fill up the seed bowls. 

2 Speckled Mousebirds on their favourite high branches. 

I miss Pookie *sniff*

I went for a walk through my vegetable garden to see what was ready to be picked, what's for dinner?

Tomatoes growing nicely, still green though. Not enough of them yet, to indulge in fried green tomatoes, next .......

.... loads of flowers on the cucumber plants, if they all bear fruit, we will have a bumper crop this year and yes, if the 
white mould don't claim them. I think I must put some roof over them, so they don't get as much water on the leaves and I can control the watering better. .............

....... now the spinach looks good, so will cut some for dinner, took out pork chops, am sure I can figure out something to go with that................

.......  The tomato seeds from Val is growing nicely, I think we will have some nice late tomatoes in about February or March ............

.....  Green Peppers are looking good

and so is the parsley growing nice and thick in big clumps

.....the mixed lettuce seedlings transplanted nicely, I have a bit in all the pots, so they don't get all muddy when the rain splashed down...........

..... strawberries for dinner ? Yum, not many, I am competing with the cheeky Black- Capped bulbul

 as to who can get to them first..........

..... got a few......... will do with some vanilla ice-cream, there is only 2 of us at home now, this house is getting very empty......





.......... The Jacaranda Trees are blooming and with the storm, the driveway has a purple carpet, can tell you that Nicholas, our Zimbabwean Gardener is going to curse loudly when he gets in ........................

I have so much to be grateful for . A fantastic husband, a loving family, a safe beautiful haven of a home, a job (however hard we work, for whatever little) others are not that lucky. 





Like Mouse will just sit for a bit and survey my Kingdom......

and thank you for my Beatrice, dear Lord............





WE truly are blessed. 

Have a lovely weekend !