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Showing posts with label south africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label south africa. Show all posts
March 14, 2010
April 27, 2008
last post from South Africa...
Hi everyone, i had a great blog and some great pictures to post for my last blog from S.A. BUT, i didn't upload it to my flash drive. So, it's still on my laptop at the house. bummer. Well, i leave on Wednesday and arrive at JFK on Thursday. An 18 hour flight all by myself. I'll be sleeping a lot. :-) Please continue to check my blog as i will be letting you know what i will be doing for the rest of the year. (Plus i'll post pictures of new paintings) Thank you all for your prayers and support!
April 20, 2008
sorry, no pictures... just read...
Monday.
Sometime after 9 am.
I had just gotten back from community worship and prayer. It happens every Monday. All the YWAM staff and students show up. This week was a little different. We didn’t have a speaker; it was a week for outreach prep. Which meant the outreach team would be on their own schedule. So, right after prayer and worship, most people went either back to their homes or to the office. I went back to the house. I had only been there a few minutes and I turned around to head back out the front door when I saw something that I didn’t know how to handle. A long, gray SNAKE sliding it’s way into OUR HOUSE! It just kept coming and coming. (It was a little shorter than arm’s length.) I was completely stunned. I just kept saying, ‘There’s a snake coming into our house. It’s in our house. The snake came into our house.’ I didn’t know what to do next. Lynn came closer and so did Heidi but still we just kind of stood there. Thank God that our maid was there. Nomsa had been outside and must have seen the snake heading for our door because she was not that far behind it. Her English isn’t that great but she was telling us to get back. But she was also handing me the broom. Now I had seen one of the guys kill another snake that was on our property and that snake was fast! So, was Nomsa wanting me to kill this snake with a broom? WHAT? But I didn’t even have time to ask her because as soon as I grab the broom she started whacking the snake with the mop! WHACK! She hit it about 7 times before it looked like she finally killed it. Then she picked it up with the mop handle and carried it off, probably to the edge of the property. Crazy! Later that day she showed me that she had killed another snake heading for the front door, it was a lot smaller than the other one. But that’s 2 snakes in 1 day trying to come into our house. We had been told that since the weather is cooling off that they would go into hibernation. Right.
Now as shocking as that whole experience was, the biggest shock didn’t come until Thursday. Another family that live on our same property (and they’re on staff), came to our house and showed me a picture of a snake that they got off the internet. They were asking me if it was the snake that came into the house. I told them that I didn’t get a good look at its face and they should ask Nomsa. Which they did and she said that it was the same kind of snake. A black mumba. The second most deadly snake in the world. In our house. A black mumba bite can kill you in 20 minutes. There is an anti-venom, and thank goodness there’s a clinic on our road (about 10 mins away) that has some. Can you believe it? A black mumba was it our house. I totally believe that God was watching over us. Black mumba’s are usually VERY fast but because it was in the morning and it was still pretty cool outside, it was moving slow enough to kill. Plus we think it was a baby since it was only arm’s length and they can grow to 7 feet. Crazy!
Sometime after 9 am.
I had just gotten back from community worship and prayer. It happens every Monday. All the YWAM staff and students show up. This week was a little different. We didn’t have a speaker; it was a week for outreach prep. Which meant the outreach team would be on their own schedule. So, right after prayer and worship, most people went either back to their homes or to the office. I went back to the house. I had only been there a few minutes and I turned around to head back out the front door when I saw something that I didn’t know how to handle. A long, gray SNAKE sliding it’s way into OUR HOUSE! It just kept coming and coming. (It was a little shorter than arm’s length.) I was completely stunned. I just kept saying, ‘There’s a snake coming into our house. It’s in our house. The snake came into our house.’ I didn’t know what to do next. Lynn came closer and so did Heidi but still we just kind of stood there. Thank God that our maid was there. Nomsa had been outside and must have seen the snake heading for our door because she was not that far behind it. Her English isn’t that great but she was telling us to get back. But she was also handing me the broom. Now I had seen one of the guys kill another snake that was on our property and that snake was fast! So, was Nomsa wanting me to kill this snake with a broom? WHAT? But I didn’t even have time to ask her because as soon as I grab the broom she started whacking the snake with the mop! WHACK! She hit it about 7 times before it looked like she finally killed it. Then she picked it up with the mop handle and carried it off, probably to the edge of the property. Crazy! Later that day she showed me that she had killed another snake heading for the front door, it was a lot smaller than the other one. But that’s 2 snakes in 1 day trying to come into our house. We had been told that since the weather is cooling off that they would go into hibernation. Right.
Now as shocking as that whole experience was, the biggest shock didn’t come until Thursday. Another family that live on our same property (and they’re on staff), came to our house and showed me a picture of a snake that they got off the internet. They were asking me if it was the snake that came into the house. I told them that I didn’t get a good look at its face and they should ask Nomsa. Which they did and she said that it was the same kind of snake. A black mumba. The second most deadly snake in the world. In our house. A black mumba bite can kill you in 20 minutes. There is an anti-venom, and thank goodness there’s a clinic on our road (about 10 mins away) that has some. Can you believe it? A black mumba was it our house. I totally believe that God was watching over us. Black mumba’s are usually VERY fast but because it was in the morning and it was still pretty cool outside, it was moving slow enough to kill. Plus we think it was a baby since it was only arm’s length and they can grow to 7 feet. Crazy!
April 13, 2008
info on HIV and AIDS...
Last Friday we had a man come in from a local HIV/AIDS clinic. We currently live on the same street and have worked with them before. The man came in to share about HIV, AIDS and the work that they, the ACTS Clinic, do here in South Africa.
ACTS stands for: AIDS Care Training & Support
ACTS clinic sees over 20,000 patients a month
H – Human
I – Immunodeficiency
V – Virus
A – Acquired
I – Immune
D – Deficient
S – Syndrome (a group of diseases)
At the end of 2006, 2.1 million people died of HIV. 2.8 million were newly infected.
HIV doesn’t kill; it just lowers your CD4 count so that you are susceptible to worse diseases that your body can not fight.
Under 19yrs– only 5% that are tested are positive. 19yrs to 29yrs – 40% tested are positive.
There are actually 2 types of HIV: HIV1 which is the worst and the most common. HIV2 is a milder virus and is found more in West Africa. Though, you can never just have HIV2 without already having HIV1.
It’s easier for women to catch HIV than men because of how the virus develops. Of people infected 60% are women and 40% are men.
TB is a new epidemic. It’s infecting and killing people who are HIV positive because they have no immune system.
AIDS is the end stage of HIV if the infection hasn’t been treated.
HIV is treatable and you can live a long healthy life if you take the right antivirals and take care of yourself.
ACTS stands for: AIDS Care Training & Support
ACTS clinic sees over 20,000 patients a month
H – Human
I – Immunodeficiency
V – Virus
A – Acquired
I – Immune
D – Deficient
S – Syndrome (a group of diseases)
At the end of 2006, 2.1 million people died of HIV. 2.8 million were newly infected.
HIV doesn’t kill; it just lowers your CD4 count so that you are susceptible to worse diseases that your body can not fight.
Under 19yrs– only 5% that are tested are positive. 19yrs to 29yrs – 40% tested are positive.
There are actually 2 types of HIV: HIV1 which is the worst and the most common. HIV2 is a milder virus and is found more in West Africa. Though, you can never just have HIV2 without already having HIV1.
It’s easier for women to catch HIV than men because of how the virus develops. Of people infected 60% are women and 40% are men.
TB is a new epidemic. It’s infecting and killing people who are HIV positive because they have no immune system.
AIDS is the end stage of HIV if the infection hasn’t been treated.
HIV is treatable and you can live a long healthy life if you take the right antivirals and take care of yourself.
human faces are hard...
here's my (what i would consider) first attempt at faces, and charcoal...
they're not bad until you look at the photos that i was basing them off of and you realize that they look nothing like those kids... oh well... i have to start somewhere...
April 6, 2008
April 4, 2008
last week...
This past week was pretty mellow for me. Which is what I needed. The week before was great just extremely busy. Also, we had a team of 5 ladies from the states, living in our house which already had 8 females. That was 12 females using 1 bathroom (Lynn just shared hers with Rich). Everything worked out alright, sometimes there wasn’t quite enough hot water but you work with what you got. The team that came in was fun and we kept them really busy with local outreach opportunities. The team brought with them a plethora of toys and activities for the kids…
the company that one of the ladies worked for donated a bunch of stamping stuff. the kids really liked it and she left it all with us so we can continue to take it out to the different groups that we work with...
the kids REALLY loved the play-doh that the ladies brought from the states. you can't buy it here...
jenga. who knew you could have so much fun with wooden blocks...
the team brought footballs, soccer balls, and bouncy balls too...
there was a dentist on the team and she was able to give a couple of presentations on tooth care. Plus she had toothbrushes and paste to pass out to the kids...
the company that one of the ladies worked for donated a bunch of stamping stuff. the kids really liked it and she left it all with us so we can continue to take it out to the different groups that we work with...
the kids REALLY loved the play-doh that the ladies brought from the states. you can't buy it here...
jenga. who knew you could have so much fun with wooden blocks...
the team brought footballs, soccer balls, and bouncy balls too...
there was a dentist on the team and she was able to give a couple of presentations on tooth care. Plus she had toothbrushes and paste to pass out to the kids...March 30, 2008
happy easter...
we took a few group photos after church... say cheese!
It actually rained pretty hard most of the afternoon, so everything was held inside... 
look at all that food, glorious food...
yeah, me being the easter bunny... maybe it was a sugar-high... 
Emma Grace getting a little help finding some eggs... 
the bunny cakes that Jordan (one of our students) made... it was red velvet... 
time to relax and play a few games... 
Rich didn't quite make it... 
Lynn found an easter lilly... a nice end to a nice holiday...dinner's served...
Tuesday, I did something that I never would have guessed that I would ever do...
It was my night to make dinner and I choose to make Breakfast Burritos. Lynn, Heidi and Kathryn had only ever had like McDonald’s and were grossed out by them. So I decided to enlighten them. Unfortunatly, you can’t always get the same thing here that you would be able to get in the states. We have been making our own flour tortillas because to ones here don’t taste right. So I made my own for dinner. I didn’t ask Lynn to get hash browns at the store because we already have potatoes so I figured I could make them myself. Well, think again. I tried ‘baking’ them in the oven (a little healthier than frying) and that didn’t really work. Then Lynn tried “frying” on the stove-top and that didn’t quite work either. But they were good enough to eat. The eggs were the easy part. But the thing that I NEVER thought I would do was… Let me back up again… There’s a butcher here that we use when we need… well beef, and the like. Though, we’ve had some trouble with finding some of the same cuts that we get in the states. So, I asked Lynn to pick up some sausage (ground pork) for my dinner night. She left the order with the butch and when she picked in up it was small (finger-size) sausage links. Not what I was asking for. But the links wouldn’t work very well for the burritos (too big) so… I pain-stackingly cut open each one and ‘squeezed’ out all the pork. Yeah, gross. And that’s something that I never thought I would do.
P.S. they were great! Not exactly like home but everyone liked them.
It was my night to make dinner and I choose to make Breakfast Burritos. Lynn, Heidi and Kathryn had only ever had like McDonald’s and were grossed out by them. So I decided to enlighten them. Unfortunatly, you can’t always get the same thing here that you would be able to get in the states. We have been making our own flour tortillas because to ones here don’t taste right. So I made my own for dinner. I didn’t ask Lynn to get hash browns at the store because we already have potatoes so I figured I could make them myself. Well, think again. I tried ‘baking’ them in the oven (a little healthier than frying) and that didn’t really work. Then Lynn tried “frying” on the stove-top and that didn’t quite work either. But they were good enough to eat. The eggs were the easy part. But the thing that I NEVER thought I would do was… Let me back up again… There’s a butcher here that we use when we need… well beef, and the like. Though, we’ve had some trouble with finding some of the same cuts that we get in the states. So, I asked Lynn to pick up some sausage (ground pork) for my dinner night. She left the order with the butch and when she picked in up it was small (finger-size) sausage links. Not what I was asking for. But the links wouldn’t work very well for the burritos (too big) so… I pain-stackingly cut open each one and ‘squeezed’ out all the pork. Yeah, gross. And that’s something that I never thought I would do.
P.S. they were great! Not exactly like home but everyone liked them.
March 22, 2008
mix it up...
This was a week full of local outreach. We had a speaker, a very good speaker. But there were several opportunities for different outreach locations so I took advantage of them. Wednesday we started the morning with a farm school; it’s a school out in the bush for local children (sometimes kids of farmers). We have a team from the states with us for 2 weeks, so they came. One of the women is a dentist so she spoke to the kids about their teeth.
At the end we got to pass out tooth brushes and toothpaste.
They didn’t speak much English but who needs English when you have Play-doh and Jenga!
After lunch, we went to an after school program. The kids actually spoke English pretty well so we were able to play some different games with them. Heidi and Kathryn taught them Surfer/Chick/Wave – it’s like rock/paper/scissors only it’s interactive. The kids really seemed to like it.
Next we played Tag – or Touch as they call it. They definitely liked that!
At the end we got to pass out tooth brushes and toothpaste.
They didn’t speak much English but who needs English when you have Play-doh and Jenga!
After lunch, we went to an after school program. The kids actually spoke English pretty well so we were able to play some different games with them. Heidi and Kathryn taught them Surfer/Chick/Wave – it’s like rock/paper/scissors only it’s interactive. The kids really seemed to like it.
Next we played Tag – or Touch as they call it. They definitely liked that!
On Thursday, our regular place fell through because the after-school program was canceled. None of the kids showed up because of the holiday weekend. So we found another opportunity in another town. It’s only suppose to be about 45 minutes away, but there’s construction going on and we were told it could take an hour and a half. And that’s about how long it took! Good bonding experience. When we got there the kids were SO happy to see us! They up on some music and showed us their dance moves. They were good too! Then we split up the kids and took the younger kids inside to play with Play-doh, which they liked. Heidi and Kathryn tried to teach them Surfer/Chick/Wave but it didn’t go over so well. So they started playing relay races with the DTS students. After all the games, they put on the music again and this time it was our turn to show off. Right. They kept pulling us into the circle to bust a move. I was very reluctant but I did, but a made another girl come with me. :-) Unfortunately, I left my camera in the car....
March 16, 2008
they come baring gifts...
My pastor from my home church in Texas, Keith Spurgin, is the speaker this week. He doesn’t really have a title for what he is speaking on. It’s somewhat on Leadership, somewhat on Relationships. He shared practical lessons for any relationships that you might have - how to handle conflict, 4 levels of communication, how to build lasting and life changing relationships. Very practical things to know. I’ve actually heard him speak on this before, but it’s been a reminder.
It’s always nice to see a friend that you haven’t seen in a while, but it’s even better if you know that they are baring gifts! My family sent some gifts with Keith for me. They don’t have chocolate chips in South Africa, so I asked my mom to send some and she sent SIX bags. Holy-moly! They also sent some DVDs that I asked for. I’ve been reading Lord of the Rings and it made me want to watch them, so they sent them and a few others. I think Kathryn (Hodge) put it best when she said (while we were opening the dvds), “I love your family!” I agree, I love my family… and not just for sending me Lord of the Rings!
It’s always nice to see a friend that you haven’t seen in a while, but it’s even better if you know that they are baring gifts! My family sent some gifts with Keith for me. They don’t have chocolate chips in South Africa, so I asked my mom to send some and she sent SIX bags. Holy-moly! They also sent some DVDs that I asked for. I’ve been reading Lord of the Rings and it made me want to watch them, so they sent them and a few others. I think Kathryn (Hodge) put it best when she said (while we were opening the dvds), “I love your family!” I agree, I love my family… and not just for sending me Lord of the Rings!
HIV testing...
This week’s local outreach was on Monday and Tuesday. We worked with a local ministry that goes to schools and offers HIV testing for the students. I think the youngest we tested was 9, but if they are younger than 13 they had to have a consent form signed by their parents. If, by chance, the child is HIV positive, they don’t tell them right then. They first meet with the parents and tell them before telling the child. But at the school, they teach the classes about AIDS and HIV and tell them to ‘fear the blood’- to never touch someone else’s blood. It was a good experience. There was enough of us (staff and students) to man the tents and to play with the kids when they were on break.
The school was huge and we had our tents set up in the ‘playground’ area. That meant that on breaks there was a FLOOD of kids! And I mean a flood. The kids really enjoyed coping whatever you were doing, like Simon Says or Follow the Leader. And since only a few of the older kids spoke a little English, we used a lot of games and songs with hand-motions.
The first day went really well. It was rather hot, but none of the kids tested positive. Unfortunately, on Tuesday, 2 kids tested positive. One of the kids was 14, the other was 10. When they meet with the parents, they instruct them to go take the child to get tested at the clinic where they actually draw blood for the test. The test that they use for the schools only requires a few drops and sometimes (very rarely) has false positives or false negatives. I pray that the kids that tested positive were one of the false positives.
The school was huge and we had our tents set up in the ‘playground’ area. That meant that on breaks there was a FLOOD of kids! And I mean a flood. The kids really enjoyed coping whatever you were doing, like Simon Says or Follow the Leader. And since only a few of the older kids spoke a little English, we used a lot of games and songs with hand-motions.
The first day went really well. It was rather hot, but none of the kids tested positive. Unfortunately, on Tuesday, 2 kids tested positive. One of the kids was 14, the other was 10. When they meet with the parents, they instruct them to go take the child to get tested at the clinic where they actually draw blood for the test. The test that they use for the schools only requires a few drops and sometimes (very rarely) has false positives or false negatives. I pray that the kids that tested positive were one of the false positives.
March 9, 2008
it was a good day...
Thursday ended up being a better day than I thought it would. :-) It’s one of the days that we have local outreach. Not that I don’t like local outreach, it’s just this particular place wasn’t quite my ‘cup of tea’ last week when we visited. It was fine; I got involved; I had fun. But you see, it’s an after-school program for teenage boys - the one ‘kid-group’ that I don’t work very well with. It’s SO easy for me to play with little kids; girls or boys. And I can handle teenage girls for you see, I have 3 younger sisters; only 1 younger brother. So, I wasn’t quite looking forward to this week. But as we were preparing our game plan that morning, I started getting my priorities right and I started getting excited for the afternoon with the kids. I kept reminding myself, ‘it’s not about you’. :-) I forget sometimes. As a team, we put together a sketch (drama) and decided to break up into small groups to discuss the sketch with the kids. Then we had a game for the end. So when we got to the school, we found out that we would have the boys and the girls for the program! That’s how outreach goes. :-) Anyhoo, the day went really well. The sketch went great, the teenage girls in my discussion group understood the point of the sketch, and all of the kids loved the game. All in all, it was a good day...
i was going to posts some pictures from the day, but this lousy internet cafe isn't letting me...
i was going to posts some pictures from the day, but this lousy internet cafe isn't letting me...
March 7, 2008
for the beauty of the earth...
I can't even being to explain how beautiful this area is. I've taken some pictures... they still don't quite do this land justice...
For the beauty of the earth,
For the beauty of the skies,
For the love which from our birth
Over and around us lies,
Lord of all, to thee we raise
This our grateful hymn of praise.
March 2, 2008
saturday...
It was a busy day. We moved the Price Family into a new house. They moved out of their other house for a family that is coming on staff with Ten Thousand Homes. Jen (and Jeremy) had been packing all week so that we would be able to move everything in one day. Which we did. :-) We started at 9am and finish unloading the last trip sometime around noon. Afterwards, we helped move some furniture around, put some beds together, stored away food, etc. As a ‘thanks’ for helping them move, we had a BBQ, or braai as they call it here (pronounced like buy only with an ‘r’) at their friends house. They had a pool. Fun was had by all...
a week of firsts…
First day of class…
Well, it wasn’t a great day and it wasn’t a bad day. This week’s subject is Identity in Christ. The speaker was having a hard time getting feedback/questions from the students. I think it was for several different reasons. Yes, it’s a somewhat quiet group, but it was Monday, it was overcast, and it was fairly hot in our classroom. After lunch he was able to engage them more. I think everyone got or will get something out of the teaching by the week of the week. It’s a good teaching. (Wednesday was the second day of teaching and the students were more verbal. Much better response)
First day of local outreach…
Tuesday at 10am was the start of our local outreach. (Thursday will be the same) We will be working with different orphanages, organizations, churches, etc. for the next three months. Anyplace that has orphanes and vulnerable children. This Tuesday we worked at an orphanage that is just a temporary home for children while they find them foster homes. There were 9 kids under the age of 3 or 4. They are all pretty mellow and enjoyed us even if we just sat and held them. Unfortunately, most of them were sick with a cough and some had fever. One kid threw up twice on one of the students, Jordan. She was a trooper.
I was involved in a little 'accident' too. The little girl that I buddied-up with needed her diaper changed. So, as I have changed many a diaper in my lifetime, I figured that I should take care of it. Well, it was one of the fullest ones I’ve ever had to change to begin with. Then just as I’m finishing up, but before I put on the new one, she decides to pee. Which proceed to run all over the changing table and got her clothes all wet. SO, I took off her clothes, cleaned her and the changing table up, put on a new diaper, and just as I was finishing up…. She spit up on herself and the table. Nice. I just had to laugh. Sadly, we don’t have any pictures. We figured since it was our first time to work with them that maybe we shouldn’t. Maybe next time.
This is how we decided to keep the ants from getting to the muffins that Heidi and Kathryn had made. We hung them from the ceiling fan. :-) Ants are everywhere!! You can not leave a crumb out; they will find it.
Well, it wasn’t a great day and it wasn’t a bad day. This week’s subject is Identity in Christ. The speaker was having a hard time getting feedback/questions from the students. I think it was for several different reasons. Yes, it’s a somewhat quiet group, but it was Monday, it was overcast, and it was fairly hot in our classroom. After lunch he was able to engage them more. I think everyone got or will get something out of the teaching by the week of the week. It’s a good teaching. (Wednesday was the second day of teaching and the students were more verbal. Much better response)
First day of local outreach…
Tuesday at 10am was the start of our local outreach. (Thursday will be the same) We will be working with different orphanages, organizations, churches, etc. for the next three months. Anyplace that has orphanes and vulnerable children. This Tuesday we worked at an orphanage that is just a temporary home for children while they find them foster homes. There were 9 kids under the age of 3 or 4. They are all pretty mellow and enjoyed us even if we just sat and held them. Unfortunately, most of them were sick with a cough and some had fever. One kid threw up twice on one of the students, Jordan. She was a trooper.
I was involved in a little 'accident' too. The little girl that I buddied-up with needed her diaper changed. So, as I have changed many a diaper in my lifetime, I figured that I should take care of it. Well, it was one of the fullest ones I’ve ever had to change to begin with. Then just as I’m finishing up, but before I put on the new one, she decides to pee. Which proceed to run all over the changing table and got her clothes all wet. SO, I took off her clothes, cleaned her and the changing table up, put on a new diaper, and just as I was finishing up…. She spit up on herself and the table. Nice. I just had to laugh. Sadly, we don’t have any pictures. We figured since it was our first time to work with them that maybe we shouldn’t. Maybe next time.
Here are some other pictures though:
This is how we decided to keep the ants from getting to the muffins that Heidi and Kathryn had made. We hung them from the ceiling fan. :-) Ants are everywhere!! You can not leave a crumb out; they will find it.
These are the dogs of the property owners where we live. Oscar and Josey. They're pretty good dogs, but BIG. a little too big for my taste...
This grasshopper was massive! It was the biggest one i have ever seen. I think all big are bigger in South Africa...
February 23, 2008
some orientation...
As I stated in my last blog, this was the first week of our school. Orientation week. It mostly consists of info about the next three months; about small groups, local outreach, work duties, etc. It was a good week. There’s a lot of meetings and gatherings for both staff and students so that everyone can get to know each other. Actually, 4 out of our 5 students already knew each other. And the other student knew the Hodges. It’s kind of nice that there are already those connections because the first week is usually filled with (somewhat) awkward small talk. :-)
We had a little switch around during the first week. Originally, the single girl students were living in the housing above the school room, along with the married couple (also students). But the school house isn’t surrounded by the electric fence that surrounds the property. The school house does have an alarm but we decided that it might be better if the single girls move into the Hodges house and the single guys move into the school house. So we made the switch. Now Rich Hodge lives with 8 females. Poor guy… he-he!
for those of you that know me really well, you know how i like to play with my food. When i'm done eating, that is. Well, here's a beautiful dish all the way from south africa... :-)
This is our front yard. we have a bunch of lovely flowers...
We had a little switch around during the first week. Originally, the single girl students were living in the housing above the school room, along with the married couple (also students). But the school house isn’t surrounded by the electric fence that surrounds the property. The school house does have an alarm but we decided that it might be better if the single girls move into the Hodges house and the single guys move into the school house. So we made the switch. Now Rich Hodge lives with 8 females. Poor guy… he-he!
for those of you that know me really well, you know how i like to play with my food. When i'm done eating, that is. Well, here's a beautiful dish all the way from south africa... :-)
This is our front yard. we have a bunch of lovely flowers...
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