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today is going to be a rustige day with Bowie and Toby, and some light reading 🐕🐕📚

On our way back from the dorp, we stopped at another farm so that Bowie and I could go for a walk. The apple and pear harvest is now also coming to an end. The citrus harvest has started 🍎🍐🍊🐕🚶‍♂️

A bederfie at the Crazy Cat Coffee Shop before we head back up the pass. Bowie is lights-out. He doesn't like the dorp and it's a bit warm and humid 🐕🚶‍♂️

It's a dorp day for us. Yesterday, we ran out of gas, which means no coffee this morning. And the larder is empty. That's part of the lekker life on the platteland. good morning, good morning, good morning 🌷

"The township whistle is not nostalgia; it is evidence that community can be encoded in something as simple as sound... [This is belonging as] recognition built over time." tastefullyoverdrinks.substack.com/p/the-whistl...

Parasol Lily, now going to seed 🌸

Bowie's having a cool-down, we'll turn around here 🐕🚶‍♂️

Bowie's taking me to the top of the koppie. Beetjie en blommetjies, altyd mooi good morning 🐕🌷

Our Story, approved by Bowie: An Autumn Heatwave. The March Lily continue; Moorrees and a playdate with Bagel; first time at Kruistementvlei Farm open.substack.com/pub/oppad/p/...

I've heard an owl a few times, never seen it🦉

here comes Toby, now we're all on the stoep. The sun has set, it's cooling down 🐕🐕

Happy Pi Day

Some reading to do 🌵📖

I sommer get a lekker gevoel when I see a wood-burning stove, especially a working one. Today at Kruisementvlei farm 🔥

I better straighten out my life www.instagram.com/reel/DVyLR70...

This morning's walk with Bowie 🚶‍♂️🐕

Bowie's on the Kruistementsvlei guest farm today, where he's met some new friends 🐕🐕🐕🐕

It's coffee time here, after a Bowie wake-up barking outside. I think there's a mongoose somewhere. We'll be off for a walk on a new farm today, new smells and things to discover. Have a lekker day on your side, good morning 🌷

As Cape Town sweltered in the heat, the temperature in one of the classrooms in Siyabulela Primary School topped 40C. But grade 7 learners could escape to the school’s “pocket forest”, where the temperature was just 29C. groundup.org.za/article/langa-learners-beat-the-heat-in-their-pocket-forest

Oom Toby has found something interesting, so we wait. Bowie gaan sommer lé! Boys, it's time for your poop, asseblief 🐕🐕🚶‍♂️

“The idea that a civilization might destroy itself is both ludicrous and likely. 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 We are pathetically inadequate at long-term planning, idiotically primitive in our destructive urges and pathologically incapable of simply getting along." - Brian Cox

"After years of chasing ghosts, Boyes caught up with the elephants. It’s now his mission to protect them." edition.cnn.com/science/ghost-elephants-angola-steve-boyes-werner-herzog-interview-spc-c2e

“This is Namaqualand I will write about here Because here is where I belong” open.substack.com/pub/benmarva...

A Periodic Table of which country produces the most of each element www.reddit.com/r/geography/...

On our walk earlier today, the Blood Lily are starting to develop berries. The March Lily are still stunning, even during this heat wave

Bowie's realm 🐕🚶‍♂️

On today's walk, we went off-road over the koppie. Bowie scampers ahead and waits where I can see him 🐕🚶‍♂️

Ons gaan bietjie stap, before it gets hot. Julle moet enjoy daar doer good morning 🌻

Brunsvigia marginata. www.facebook.com/share/p/18Ab...

stoepsit with Beertjie 🐕 (Bowie's sleeping on the floor tonight - like I've got a say in the matter)

Another hot day, though a bit more bearable as we had a bit of a breeze 🐕🐕🚶‍♂️

mooi bly net mooi 🌸

Bowie's got the zoomies, after a lekker cooldown in a plaasdam

I still want to visit Pella on this list, via the stofpad to Pofadder youtu.be/dpPFZZsKbRY?...

After going AWOL with Toby yesterday, this morning Bowie has decided to jump onto the bed for a cuddle and snooze. We'll take it easy today, it's going to be another hot day. good morning 🐕

One year ago, on the Namaqualand plaas: Lexi, Sheila, Boeta, feeding the lambs

Bowie, Toby and I did a slow walk in the shadows tonight. It's been a hot day in the Western Cape, still a few more days to go

We had a power cut in the cottage yesterday and couldn't find a 'fix'. An electrician came this morning, there had been a 'trip' at the Eskom box.

Beim Spar in Windhoek gibt es heute Kartoffelpuffer. Wonderful childhood memories, our weekend started Saturday lunchtime, after chores

Bowie went AWOL this morning and I went looking for him. He was lying next to Toby at the main house. They both came back with me, nou lê hulle alweer. Te oulik! 💚 enjoy daar doer, good morning 🐕🐕

With end of the harvest, it is now time for repairs. Foreman Frank is repairing the plaas padjies, which washed away with the recent rains 🚜

On the pad back today, it was 44°C at the bottom of the Versfeld Pass. It's a cool 41°C at the cottage

Playdate: Bowie & Bagel at Moorrees Bakery in Moorreesburg 🐕🐕

Bowie was huffing and puffing after chasing some guinea, which gave Toby and me a chance to catch up with him 🐕🐕

Bowie beertjie has found the coolest spot in the cottage, fan is blowing. My weather app says 35C

The First Car Ever to Reach Gamkaskloof (Die Hel) www.facebook.com/share/p/1DKV... www.facebook.com/share/g/1WxK...

my kind - my boy 💚🐕

the week ahead 🥵

Last week, a friend went to Namibia. Next week, two more friends are going Namibia. Mild envy! Maybe I'll plan a trip next year with Bowie to go see Junior 🇳🇦🐕