party time

saturday 24 march is sister vize's 90th birthday - that's old she must have been born while ww1 still in full swing.
ma vize was for years the only medical person in ghanzi in the days when there was no road no telephones not much of anything. as acting mid wife she has delivered most of todays poulation - or caught to use local parlance.
big party tonight at the barn to celebrate when the whole panoply of Ghanzi society will be there to celebrate one of it's most venerated citizens.

praying for rain

another hot and humid day - clouds, wind - all the signs but no Pula (rain in the local language) maybe global warming already affecting our remote paradise, curse the unthinking polluters!
got some friends here from the city, interesting to see our life from their perspective, somehow makes it exciting and realise again how lucky we are
found a dead kudu in the shade at the tree hide - big spiral horns would have been a trophy fit for a rich american trophy room but lucky old kudu died of old age - teeth no longer able to munch the sharp thorns
saw some black wildebeest far from home they must be getting adventurous! stupid things chasing their tails