Fasten your seatbelts!

[Fez]

Sign on a road I use in one of the areas I work in. I have a 4X4 because I need one, not because I want one.

South was with me, she must be thinking "what have I got myself into?". On the same trip we were charged by a big bull elephant. Poor woman.....

[MorningGlory]

Is this sign for real, fez? If so, that must be one awful stretch of road!

[Fez]

Is this sign for real, fez? If so, that must be one awful stretch of road!

Tongue in cheek I think. But it is an awful piece of road.......

[ladypeartree]

[Hunterpoet]

Do the folks in your neck of the wood normally unfasten their brastraps while motoring???

[LeonaS]

Ok, dentures I can see. But what possible help would it be to remove your brastraps??

Fez, you seem to have these little adventures on a nearly daily basis! Good on ya!

[Hunterpoet]

Ok, dentures I can see. But what possible help would it be to remove your brastraps??

Fez, you seem to have these little adventures on a nearly daily basis! Good on ya!

no no...Fasten brastraps

[Fez]

Ok, dentures I can see. But what possible help would it be to remove your brastraps??

Fez, you seem to have these little adventures on a nearly daily basis! Good on ya!

no no...Fasten brastraps

Well life is for living is it not?........

It's pretty short and we may as well try and enjoy ourselves as we go about our day. Look around you, there are so many opportunities to enjoy life, and a lot of us (me included), always seem to look at the dark side first, and not the light.

Why is that? What is it about us?

So one should try to live close to edge, otherwise we are taking up too much space?

The following day after this photo was taken, I took South on her first walk into the African bush in Mkuze game reserve (one of the reserves I help manage), surrounded by buffalo, elephant, leopard, rhino, wild dog, etc. She was nervous, (it was her first time) but what did it do for her, and me?

Made us understand how small we actually are, and that we need to place our trust 100% in Him. It did not help that we had been charged by a bull elephant while in my vehicle early that morning. But she can tell you the story.......

Live life, it is the only one you have (and then eternity!)

Blessings

[south]

Do the folks in your neck of the wood normally unfasten their brastraps while motoring???

I think they meant to tighten the brastraps. It was an awfully bumpy ride.

[south]

Ok, dentures I can see. But what possible help would it be to remove your brastraps??

Fez, you seem to have these little adventures on a nearly daily basis! Good on ya!

no no...Fasten brastraps

Well life is for living is it not?........

It's pretty short and we may as well try and enjoy ourselves as we go about our day. Look around you, there are so many opportunities to enjoy life, and a lot of us (me included), always seem to look at the dark side first, and not the light.

Why is that? What is it about us?

So one should try to live close to edge, otherwise we are taking up too much space?

The following day after this photo was taken, I took South on her first walk into the African bush in Mkuze game reserve (one of the reserves I help manage), surrounded by buffalo, elephant, leopard, rhino, wild dog, etc. She was nervous, (it was her first time) but what did it do for her, and me?

Made us understand how small we actually are, and that we need to place our trust 100% in Him. It did not help that we had been charged by a bull elephant while in my vehicle early that morning. But she can tell you the story.......

Live life, it is the only one you have (and then eternity!)

Blessings

It was really a very tiring but exciting trip. The encounter with the bull elephant was scary.

It was early in the morning and Fez decided to go to the visitor's camp to use the toilet coz there was not enough water where we were. We were in the staff camp. After a while I saw him coming back and when he got out of the car, he looked pretty excited and in a hurry. He said he had seen a bull elephant and I must come quickly so I could see it. So still in my pajamas, my hair still messed up, and with my slippers on, we jumped into the car and drove off:21: And there was our bull elephant looking like he was having a bad morning It was coming our way so Fez had to reverse the car. That was the closest I've been to an elephant. It was pretty scary.

During the day, we went to a part of the game reserve where there was a hide (a hide is a wooden structure with windows where visitors can view wild animals taking a drink in a pan) that was closed due to the drought. The pan was dry so there were no animals to see. We crossed the pan looking for wood. Fez walked leisurely while I walked in fear I kept thinking some wild animal would just charge at us in that open field. As I walked with Fez, I had to ask the Lord to help me overcome my fears. I always get very very nervous. But on the other hand, I was enjoying myself, looking for wood in the bush, like it was some kind of treasure hunt.

Fez has this hobby of looking for woodpieces which have unusual shapes or forms. The last time we were there, we got one shaped like a dragon. We stained it and I've been using it as a stand for a fish fossil.

This time, we found one that was shaped like an animal sitting on its stomach with all four legs stretched out, but with this long piece of wood winding up. Hmmm...we have to figure that one out We saw it at the same time sticking out of the dry grass, and we both loved it. It was a very good and heavy piece of dried acacia wood.

I agree with Fez. Live life, and I mean really really live it!

Blessings...South