My Life's Winding Roads: June and the onset of winter, eventually 👏

My Life's Winding Roads: June and the onset of winter, eventually 👏: Good morning family and friends. Seeing as today is the 1st of the month, I thought I would surprise you all with an early post 😉.  Winter ...

June and the onset of winter, eventually 👏

Good morning family and friends. Seeing as today is the 1st of the month, I thought I would surprise you all with an early post 😉.  Winter has finally arrived in the Western Cape, not as cold as I would like but it is here.  I said this morning,  out of all the different towns and homes I've lived in, in some of the coldest places of this country, I have only lived in one house that had a fireplace, which didn't work properly.  Ho Humm.  Now we have an awesome stove in the fireplace and it's not as cold 🥲.

Where has this year gone and on the other hand so much has happened that it seems New Year was forever ago.  May, as usual was a busy month, busy it seems is the new normal.  

JB and I went through twice to Hout Bay to assist with and babysit little BabyBear a.k.a. the Prince, Munchkin. He is growing so fast and reaching milestones so that every visit there is something new.  Now that he is crawling he is everywhere and yet stops as soon as he hears "no, shoo shoo, nee" (at least he doesn't laugh at my Afrikaans 😂) . It is hard to believe that in 4 days he will be 10 months old.  With each visit we have had the best time of fellowship with both BigBear and MamaBear. We are off again this weekend coming, yippee.

The rest of the family are all doing well. Hubby is out sailing today and as always busy with clocks.  One that he is working on was made in the 1700's.  Princess has had flu (more than once 😥), Poppet had some good news and moving around at work which is what she had prayed for. Big Guy has had a challenging month as his car (which is old) died over Easter. The timing belt had snapped and damaged the engine.  It took until this week to be repaired and delivered back to him. Then his company laid off some staff, of whom he was one. He negotiated a severance package and is currently looking everywhere for a new job. We are all standing with him in prayer. Then to top it off, he  had been given notice that the owner of his apartment wanted to sell 🤦‍♀️.  Good grief... his rental agent found another apartment which he viewed on Friday. He was in the process of accepting the new lease when the owner called, he had decided not to sell but to renew the lease for another year without an increase in rental. So two out of three challenges sorted and off the prayer list.  

On the four dotted family front  Dash and Charlie twice unpotted one of my snake plants I had in a pot on the deck 🤦‍♀️. It seems it is their payback at being left alone.  Little Zeepha has, I think the the sight in her right eye.  It does not seem to bother or hinder her at all and I am just keeping an extra eye on her (pardon the pun). 

There was some excitement locally this week when an Elephant Seal decided to go walk about in Gordon's Bay.  Gordy (now named) left the ocean and got himself through the suburb, over main roads, about 5 km inland. As you can imagine he caused quite a stir and became an overnight sensation. It took many hours of well coordinated work with security and animal welfare working together to keep him safe. The cars formed a moving wall keeping him on the sidewalks until the necessary equipment arrived,  loaded him and then released him about 20 kms away along Clarence Drive far away from suburbia.  The next day he popped up 45 kms away on the other side of False Bay, and then he settled further down the coast in Simonstown, at the Naval Base where he proceeded to sun himself and recover from his adventure. In typical South African fashion and sense of humor the social media posts and company ads had him front and centre before he was even relocated.  Stay safe Gordy. 

I had to eventually make the decision that it is time to go ahead with my right knee replacement.  Ugh.  This past week I spent half a day at the Hospital seeing the Anaethatist, sisters, Surgeon, pre admission and admission. It now done and organized.  I go in on the 10th June and am scheduled for theatre at 11.30.  I can't say I'm looking forward to this, but I needed to bite the bullet and get it done.

The little sweater I was knitting for Munchkin came out beautifully and what really surprised me was that it took just a little over one 100gr ball of wool. What my mind is trying to figure out is, what the difference is between the sweater and a cardigan.  The cardigan pattern calls for 5 balls of wool 🤔.  I may have alluded over the last couple of months, to something that I have been working on, and now I have taken the leap (a huge  one for me).  I have started a little online business, advertising on Instagram for now. It is called Hooked.in.Luv and the idea came from all the little things I have made since BabyBear was born.  I am making and selling 100 % Pure Cotton Olly Octopuses (named after my late Dad), Wooden Teething Rings treated with Coconut Oil, Worry Worms, and No Fall Snap Straps, which attach to highchairs, prams, baby seats, car seats, hiking seats etc and are adjustable. See the link at the end of this Blog and I will add it in my Bio.

Well folks that's the news for now, there won't be too much running around for me this month, just mostly recovery and getting mobile.  I wish you all all a blessed month, face your challenges head on and let your faith in God carry you through.  He never fails or leaves us.  

Ciao ciao for now.

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Hout Bay warm and Cosy with Panda being curious.

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