The blog post that should have been.

So I was busy preparing to write a blog post to show you this….

My home-grown, totally organic tomatoes picked fresh of the vine,  and this……

my first gooseberries from the tiny twig that thinks it’s a gooseberry bush.

All delicious by the way. I gobbled the gooseberries right there after I took the photo and the tomatoes were served with our dinner – just sliced up with a little salt so that we could see what they really taste like.  There is NOTHING like a home-grown tomato!  Anyway – I digress.

Then I was going to tell you how dry it is and how much we wait for the first spring rains here – it’s a regional past-time, guessing when it’s going to finally fall.  Waiting for those first big hot drops to fall onto the dusty red sand.  It hasn’t come yet, but the first beautiful tiny green leaves are starting to bud on the trees. So I thought I should go out and take a photo of the first greeness arriving when I heard STOMP! CRASH! SCRAPE! MUNCH! MUNCH!

I swung around on my chair (it swivels ) to quickly look out the door, camera already in hand and who should be standing right there………..

eating all my new fresh leaves that I have been waiting for ALL WINTER!  Man oh man. So that was the end of the blog post that was planned and you get a photo of a greedy giraffe instead. (but you can actually see the greeness starting up can’t you?)

Not as planned but still quite awesome, isn’t it?

(this photo was taken from my study desk in my room)

If you have any questions that you would like to ask about our life in the African bush, please just post them in the comments.  When I have enough questions I will answer them all in a post (so long as I don’t get disturbed by another animal…… come to think of it – we had an incident with a legavaan today too… hmmmm)

I’m itching

Firstly, from many mosquito bites – we had another bad evening yesterday with zillions of mozzies attacking and we ran out of mosquito spray – I need to get that fever tree oil to try out. They were even sitting on Fred’s nose!  Does anyone know what I can put on him?

Secondly, I am itching to start growing my own food.  I thought that I would wait till the property transfer goes through before starting the veggie beds but it is going to take too long.  I have decided to start some at least – even if I have to use pots.  So this weekend I will get myself some compost and plant some juicy tomatoes and some lettuce.  I would also like to get some cucumbers growing but must first check to see if they grow in autumn in the sub-tropics.