The Beautiful and the Very Bold

On Sunday the H's popped in and while Frans and Thelwyn attended to the horses, Ouma had the pleasure to look after Martelize. A day before she turned 8 months.

Look my pretty ponytail. How Thelwyn manages
to make the pony so neatly I don't know - but she has always been good with hair - I think she was the only one in Grade 1 who plaited her own hair and when she went to high school, she plaited the most "upside down" French plaits.

Standing tall. Martelize is quite tall. She loves standing and pulls herself up with ease.

"I don't need two hands to hold on."

My Little Miss Pears. Does anyone remember those advertisements?

Our very bold grooms caught a little baboon today! How I do not know! We have quite a serious problem with baboons. They get bolder by the day and go into the stables and eat the food of the horses - and then they horse around with our water valves so that we continually have "no water"in the middle of the night! Not funny. We are nature lovers and part of a conservancy but "wat te erg is, is te erg."

Sorry that you got hurt in the catching process and sorry for what is about to happen to you little fella!

It looks much worse than it actually is! The grooms painted hm red and white (it is not blood) and then let him loose again! Hopefully the other baboons will be frightened of him and take their leave - hopefully for good!

So what did you do during Earth hour?

I nearly forgot all about it! But we duly switched off all the lights. Jan watched rugby and I phoned my sister Elsabe. It is her birthday today. We had a lovely long chat....

Meanwhile in the bathroom (yes all these books are in the bathroom) the red candle leaked and made a horrible mess... there are little spots of wax on the acrylic carpet. How am I going to get rid of the wax on the mat? I can't iron it as I tried that before on an acrylic carpet and still sit with a scorched mark! Hope I can brush it off, but haven't the guts to do it today!
There are heaps of washing and there were unmentionables in the tupper cupboard, so late last night - after earth hour - Jan washed all the tupperware while I first cleaned out the cupboard and hunted you know what and then started to dry said tupperware.... It took me quite a while to sort out all the lids etc and repack the cupboard.

When I lifted the empty candle holder this morning, I saw that it made a horrible mess of the diary in which I record my weight - glad I have not set the house on fire!

Moral of the story: save electricity, but watch your candles!! If you burn down the house, you'll send even more earth warming gasses into the air than the burning light bulbs would have!

PS. Hendrik made the most of earth hour: he went to Goodland to watch stars with "sterrekundiges".