Wednesday
Today was the day…
Another beautiful day, but the main thing about 9th February is that it’s Avril Thomas’s birthday. That happens every year on this day, except today she turned 60! This afternoon we popped round to sing and eat cake and celebrate her! Can you see the extra eye peaking through?
Great friends!
We swam this morning and then came home to take delivery of 2 cubic metres of sand. Sand on the kerb…
Was carried up in buckets and bags by two strong men. It’s now on the top step…
So, on Julian’s birthday last year, Mike planted his vines. On the 29th October (the day before Julian’s birthday), Mike drove miles and miles away to beyond Stellenbosch to a specialist vine nursery and bought 6 stems. He set about planting them. Today is the day I check in with them. The winner is this one…it’s outside the Seaview Apartment.
But next to it is one that is not doing so well.
I think it needs some time. Maybe another season before it springs to life.
There are two in pots that are doing quite well.
And this one…
This third one in the pot is not so hot.
So now we’ve got one in the ground that’s thriving. One right next to it that’s not. We have three in pots of which two have come to life. And there is the 6th. It’s the ‘agh shame’ one.
But I am still optimistic about these ‘sticks’. The vine nursery is super specialist and sells these stems to wine farmers. So far we have a 50% success rate. My thinking is if only 50% of what the nursery sells, comes to life, he would go out of business. I’m hoping all our stems will eventually bud and blossom. It’s been three months. Perhaps, in three months time, I’ll check in again.
I had a good working day. Tomorrow, we do it all over again.
2 Thessalonians 3:3
The Lord is faithful; He will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.
The best is yet to come – we are only passing through.
Keep the smile going.
God bless you.
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂