Mondays are the busiest day of the week. After the weekend, there’s loads of emails to catch up on. I’ve done 9 hours and are still not yet finished, but I need to stop. 🙂
#272 of my 1000 thanks is for 9 hours of work! Happy dance. I love my job!
When I walk around my block, I usually pass a pond in the Sun Valley wetlands. I have slowly watched it get lower and lower, until eventually the ducks could no longer swim, but had to walk through the water. This morning, it looks like this…
And looking down the river, it’s even drier…
We so desperately need rain. There may be some rain tomorrow, but according to Accuweather, the next substantial cold front should arrive 5th/6th May. There are not many rainy days in May either. I’m hoping Accuweather is not very accurate because June is even worse, with the appearance of only one significant cold front predicted.
Each sunny day that passes does not bode well for Cape Town’s water supply.
Mike intends to buy more tanks. Our water saving techniques have been refined. Most times we flush the toilet with brown water we have caught in a bucket while showering. Our sailor showers are quick and effective.
We have to trust God for His supply of rain to break what is the worst drought in the 34 years I have called Cape Town home. It’s never been this bad. I’m not sure how the birds are coping down in the wetlands. I am getting a bigger variety of birds coming to my bird-drink bottle. Big yellow birds and exotic multi-coloured sunbirds each take their turn, as do the baby starlings. I am rationing their seed balls. The starlings make short work of them. They polished off the last one in 48 hours, at which rate they cost R15 per day! They are not for big birds but rather for the sunbirds and sparrows.
Keep praying for rain.
Romans 12:12
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
These are the days!
Keep the smile going.
God bless you!
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂