Wednesday
Dear Elsie
Today was the day I went for a ‘milk’ walk. It’s when we wake up in the morning and realise we don’t have milk. Fortunately, that was after the first coffee was made. I set off just after 7am and encountered a holiday maker who had come from a guest house to get something out of his car only to have the guest house door close behind him and he didn’t have the keys. He was stuck outside. An older American with a Texas drawl – no cell phone. No keys. He would have to wait until someone came to rescue him. I phoned the guest house, but when the Google number was wrong, I sent them a message as they are on the street WhatsApp group. When that didn’t go through, I put the next message on the street WhatsApp group and assured him that someone would come to let him in. I left on my walk down to Fish Hoek and about half way there, I saw the message had 2 blue ticks and knew he would be sorted.
Meantime, on my return from buying milk, I decided to walk up the Ravine steps – all the way up from the car park next to the Garden of Remembrance.
I counted all the steps from the car park to the start of Elsie’s Peak Trail and there were 259. This is at the top…
I then walked along Mountain Rd and cut up onto the mountain towards the other half of Mountain Rd. This is looking back…that’s my shadow in the photo. The path in the distance is one of the tracks up Elsie’s Peak.
And this is the view from the path.
On the right you can see the barrier. The other side of that is Mountain Rd – the section that goes to the Shark Spotters. The section of road heading down the mountain is Contour Rd and that’s the way I went home. How blessed we are to live in such a city.
I worked for 6 hours. Midday, we went shopping and now we are ready for dinner.
I finally watched this cute video. If you wonder why I’m happy to climb 259 extra steps apart from the 85 that take me to my front door, it’s because of Jacob’s Ladder, Saint Helena Island. Julian got me onto this quaint video.
I definitely want to do some of those hikes and the challenging Jacob’s Ladder, if it’s open. I can’t believe I’ve booked for Saint Helena Island!
Now, it’s time for dinner.
Psalm 52:8
I trust in God’s unfailing love for ever and ever.
The best is yet to come – we are only passing through.
Keep the smile going.
God bless you.
In His Grip,
Gran xx 🙂