An interesting week to be sure !!

Wow let's see how this week progresses, after last week it is sure to be an under achiever in terms of entertainment and happenings.  We have had almost two weeks of back to back cold fronts bringing with them all sorts of unusual weather. Snow, rain, hail, gales, enormous seas, you name it and we've had it and obviously along with all that activity quite a few after effects.  During one of the gales last week one of the big (about 4m high) bushes on the street side of our fence was split in two with another smaller one having a big branch torn off.  I was standing in the kitchen looking out of the window and thought the hedge looked a bit sparse, on investigation I found it divided and lying in the ground.  On the Main road through BB an entire boundary wall is now lying flat on the ground, this wall was only built after the fire last year.  It does however, always provide a good laugh on the WhatsApp groups when people start reporting various objects found in their gardens - once it was a Jojo water tank. This week someone reported a black Pilates ball bouncing down the tar road, it was caught and returned to the owner. Also reported this week in a garden near the Caltex garage was the 'shelf' that goes in the boot of a hatch back car, hehehe never a dull moment.  Jelly Bean and I needed to make a quick trip to the garage shop hoping to beat the rain, hmmmmm that didn't work too well.  We rocked our way up the road as the car was buffeted by the wind, once there we could barely get the car doors open and while I was paying I saw that a big plastic wheelie bin had fallen over and been blown into the front of my car, just as we walked out of the store the heavens opened and down came the rain, such fun.  On arriving home we saw the sliding gate was open halfway, I thought  how sweet it was of Hubby to leave it open just enough for me to drive through - it wasn't open wide enough and I simply had to get out of the car to push it open (loadshedding was on which meant the gate was on battery power). The gate was standing upright but was blown about 14 cm's off the rail and there was no way I could lift it up, so poor old Hubby came out and did the heavy work.  We have become so adept at making fires it has become second nature now which is one good thing, haha.  Mother Nature won a few rounds but we  won overall as we are here, safe and well.
On Friday whilst my dear Hubby was out Jelly Bean came out of her room and looked at me as if I was a ghost. "What are you doing here?" she asked, I looked at her 🤷🏻‍♀️ ??? 
She had heard the 'baboon proof' garbage bin lid drop.  We looked out and would you believe it ??? We had TWO baboons raiding the metal garbage cage !!!  They have never come down as far as us before, but were sighted the day before at the other end of our road.  There this dude sat on top of the pallisaide gate like it was his armchair happily eating something.  He had somehow opened the cage, pulled the black bag out and then between the two of them settled down to a garbage feast.  Now folks ..... this is a whole new bag of tricks for us, no longer can we go out and leave the windows open, or just sit with all the doors wide open.  All openings bigger than 6 cm need to be hooked so that they cannot be opened further and the  baby baboons pushed through, we will also be putting a carabiner on the garbage cage.  I am praying they head back to their usual areas of foraging LOL.

As if all that had not been entertainment enough on Saturday evening our gas cylinder ran out which in itself is not a huge problem, BUT, we conveniently forgot that load shedding began in BB at 8 am yesterday morning.  So when we woke up there was no gas and no electricity to boil water for tea (I can just hear Big Guy saying "welcome to my world"). Hubby eventually got up and went to the village shop, no gas.  He came back home and we started the generator just to boil water, which we should have done  at 8.10am hehe.  The garage in Kleinmond said they had gas but could only pump it when the power came back on, by the time he got there they too had run out.  Oh how I blessed my beautiful Instant Pot because I was able to keep to my menu plan of a stir fry for dinner and hopefully today someone will receive a gas delivery.

The family are all very well and I for one am looking forward to a event/stress free week, just for once 🤞🏻.  After all the above I am going to bid you Adieu and wish you all a wonderful week, may it be filled with blessings, good health, love and laughter.  Ciao ciao and stay safe.
Our uninvited guests.

The fallen wall.

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