Heat and more heat.

We are having a heat wave at the moment and am hoping for the
weather too cool down soon. Have the aircon going but we also
have lots of power failures. So at the moment I am just stitching
small stuff because I have not strength to do any thinking.
But have lots of things running in my mind.
Take care and hugs.

Heat and more heat.

A cute meerkat named Queeny!!!

Here is a very very tame
meerkat that goes by the name of
Queeny and she lives at a
place called Monteiro just outside
of Windhoek.

Here she has come to check out
what is going on at her swimming pool

Just checking to see if Matthew

our grandson is not near as she

does not like kids anymore because

so kids ruffled her a few weeks earlier

so now she does not want kids near.

Just checking out the skies for

foreign creatures that could

be spies.

Well when her work in complete

she sure does need a great rub

from a big caring hand.

Now all is done and a quick nap in

my arms is just the right thing to do.

The next afternoon I was having a short nap

and heard some funny noise next to me,

it was Queeny lying on her back wanting

me to scratch her again a bit.

Well sadly we left the Thursday morning.

Home now and am trying to get back to normal

if I can find out what is normal. heheheheh

Windhoek MOB

I had the pleasure of meeting a few

bloggers at 24.com living in Windhoek. They are such fun

to be with and we chatted for ages.

Meeting!!!

I attended the Potpouri group meeting at the Afrokaan

today to see what they have been working on as I have

not been there for some time. They are working on a

banner for the group.

We chatted for a while and then had some lovely choc cake,

which was so nice and

tasty and a hot cuppa coffee. Real coffee.

I also bought a lovely spinach quiche for lunch

and a piece of juicy biltong for hubby.

Cant just buy fabric for me have to spoil him,

er, or is it just to stop feeling guilty for

spending money on myself!!!!! hehehe

The biltong was well received and

when tasted the comment went like this

" nice piece of fat, not too dry and tasty too". He enjoyed it very much.

Be sure to visit this lovely shop in Graafwater next time you are on the

West Coast, even if it is just to buy some of that biltong.

Blog Awards.

I have received a Blog Award from Tozz and also from Sewdeb and here goes
with my five addictions:

1. Love The Lord.
2. My family.
3. All my friends, seen ones (in my country)
and not seen ones( on the internet) they
are the special angels in my life put there by The Lord.
4. All the pets we have.
5. Sewing anything all day.
5a. The internet. hehehehehe
ps Still have to puzzle out how to put the picture on my blog.

Had a great holiday.

This was a long trip of 2400km
and took us two days to complete
we slept over in Windhoek and
then arrived safely in a small
check point named Kongola and there
Natascha and family waited for us.
This is a picture of the scenery
taken just outside of Otavi on the
way to Grootfontein.

After arriving at Kongolo we went

to Susuwe Lodge over the Kwando

river by boat and then to the lodge.

It looks much nicer than on the

pictures. Had some tea and then went

to Natascha's house. And here is

Hubby standing on the deck outside

with the Boabab tree that shades

the house.

This is what the Boabab tree

seed pods look like and when they

fall it does make a hole in the deck.

They are massive and heavy, but sadly

not even the elephants eat it.

Here is Matthew feeding the birds

and squirrels which live in the trees.

This is a genet that lives in the trees

and comes down at night and nudges against

the window pane of the door for food.

To be continued.

Just things!!!

New tenants have just moved in.
We have this lovely thorn tree
growing outside our bedroom window.
Now we have the first bird nest which was built
this morning.

I decided to help the poor guy to make

his nest cosy and cut some batting in thin strips

and put them out for him.

Made sure he saw them and here he

is collecting them. if you look carefully you can see him in the centre of the ground patch as I dont know how to enlarge it to see him better. When there was none

left he cheekily tjurped for more, so I cut

some more and now late this afternoon they

are happily settled in the nest.

Just!!!

Just a short note so say that I wont be around
for a few weeks. We are going to visit our
daughter and the internet is very bad there.
Take care to all. Happy stitching.

New!!!

This is what I did this afternoon

after seeing this lovely BOM

on gailpandesigns and just had to start

this. I also received some wonderful red

fabric from a friend at the Australian

Threads magazine forum. It just seem

to come at the right time for this fabric.

Jane Austen!!

I am reading my first Jane Austen book

Emma, but I have to use a dictionary, not just

any one as the newer ones dont seem to have

a lot of the words, which of course don't get used

nowadays, in them. It is so funny as the dictionary

is much bigger than my book. But it is very

challenging for me to read with all those

old fashioned ways of saying things in very old

English. But am enjoying it a lot.