Friday photo #16

Seems Saturday was meal day at the nature reserve. Or maybe we arrived at lunch time.

Part of a grasshopper in the larder of a fiscal shrike.

 

A black shoulder kite busy with its lunch

of rodent.

Once a wardrobe not always a wardrobe.

Believe it or not we actually bought this piece of junk. Not for a song but almost.

While we were balancing breakfast and dinner on our laps in the lounge this stood in the dinning room. After my stay in hospital - a year ago!- and some other forgotten reasons for postponing the work on this now it is finished. Oh no, it was not standing there for a year. Jason helped me to dismantle this monster. The shelf, two doors and two sides were not thrown away. Then it waited patiently as boards, lying against one wall. The shelf became something else, there will come a time that I'll tell that story. I actually first used the shelf then the rest.

The story of what happened to the rest.
As always the passage being my workroom, on my workbench that is normally the chair Ethan use to sit on at his desk.It got sanded.


There was lots of holes that needed filling. Found it one of the easiest things to do.

Then its patience got tested again, came through with flying colours I must say. :o)

After a little jigsaw was added to our power tool family, I saw the legs off that was still on the parts that used to be the sides. My plan was to use it with the legs, sadly during the dismantle phase one got damaged.

The fun part. The three of us stood side by side in the passage-workroom to give the base coat. Front and back of the boards. The next day I painted one side green. The hinges was ready to add so this could be ready and in use for Passover Friday when the brother came to visit.

A word of warning.
Don't ever try to cook a whole spread for brunch and assemble a screen the morning you are expecting the guests to arrive. It might just inflict a bit of marital disagreement. I'm just saying.







The colours are horribly wrong on the photo, but it is good enough to give you a picture of our creation.

Here it is.

I did a bit of a cheating on the bottles and flowers, these were still up when I remembered I wanted to take a photo. There were more than these on the one panel.

So proud of us. The first time the three of us made something together. That now besides cooking.

Want to know another secret I was hiding that morning?

Counter weights.

And I have not painted the back yet. That I want to paint with the now so loved blackboard paint. But cleaning the brush in between layers is at the moment too daunting a task for me to tackle this.
Soon, I must do this soon.

Hijack

Hijacking does not even reach the papers as a small filer on page 6 of the papers, any more.
For me it caused the loss of a whole hour unplanned at the computer, to fix the malware warning.

I know way too little about these things to be able to explain what and how. This what I have been able to make out.

Two things could have happened.
1. Shabby blogs got hacked. Causing everybody with something from them on their page to be affected.
2. Google Chrome sees something as a threat.

For now I choose to think it is number 1, not that my thinking make any impact on anything..

If you too have this problem
1. Go to the layout remove all the gadget HTML's on your page related to Shabby blogs.
2. Then scan your computer for any foreign stuff.

For now I will go around looking very plain and simple in the first option, simple template of blogger.

Friday photo #15

Last week Friday was a public holiday here by us, with a happening at the Union buildings. This building is where the government meets half of the year, the other half of the year they are in Cape Town.

I have no idea what the programme was like, because I knew the planes will come we were on the roof waiting for them to take a few snaps.

These were the first to fly by, accompanied by the cannons, that the smoke you see.

I was very surprised to see how close they flew to the building.

Even got the smoke.

(we wont mention focus here)

In case it is necessary to mention

that is the colours of our flag.

The one we have been waiting for,

so much faster than me. 

The only photo I got of the Grippen,

no matter what it looks like I am proud of me capturing it.

Added:
So sorry if you see a message of a hijacker here, 
I did make one change and hope it helps. Please tell me if it still there.

Read all about it, read all about it #11

Eventually we get to where you can see what I think I really look like.

Those faces accompanied by very busy hands.

 

Two places I like

the Cape

and a coffee shop

not a drop of make up

and very tired after a long walk under the African sun.

Only jerseys for me?
Strange, I love the African sun. These were during last winter and the other is a few weeks ago.
Now you know what I look like now.

Read all about it, read all about it #10

When this new blogger settings came, it showed me there are some posts lost and forgotten that was never published. Then I remembered I was still on that long, long journey to show you what I look like in person.

I think I have mentioned there are not too many photographs of me for two reasons; a) I am the one to press the camera button b) I am definitely one of those who can put a new dress and make up on and still look funny on the photo and c) those taking the photo's are not trying hard to show my good side.

And then the matter of the faces.
When Ethan was much younger, he used to stare at me without hearing a word. Much later it came to me that he is captivated by my face. Not the beauty, but the faces I make while speaking. He often asks me why do I pull faces at strangers. :o)))

So remember it is not that I pull faces at you, I just look like that.

ISO

I was amazed to see the difference in a photo after using something I have been introduced to by Aimee. Remember she is the one who had the lessons on photography.

Before if ever I wanted to take a photo of the sun setting was all totally wrong.

I did not do any editing to this photo. I changed the ISO, picked the camera up and clicked. Just that, no looking to see what is where, only to try and get the colour before if disappeared.

This is very close to what we actually saw.