While I’m waiting for my series to copy…. In the process of doing my first kefir trade, got offered a full manicure – unexpected, but then again that’s exactly what I had in mind I’m pretty happy to have made the first trade, delivery this week, manicure in a bit. Just plain fun doing...
“It is believed that the Moslem tribes-people of Northern Caucasus Mountains, were gifted kefir grains by the Prophet Mohammed while traveling through this region approx. 1,400 years ago. It is also said these tribes-people referred to kefir grains as The grains of the Prophet Mohammed and the culture product, Kefir, The Drink of the...
I’m finally done with the full-on party mode, at least for a while. It’s been fun, really fun, and I’ve met a bunch of awesome new friends. Several bunches actually and many of these people I hope to know for a long time to come. A handful I’m pretty sure I’m going to get...
Getting my thoughts together and remembering all the things that happened in during the past month or two feels a bit like that – herding cats. I should have kept notes, there were so many things I wanted to write about & share, but my internet at home is down and it’s been hectic...
I paid my final invoice for the transfer of the smallholding to my name today. It’s been a long ride. It’s been tough, tears have been shed, there’s been a lot of red tape. There’s been kindness. There will be closure. In about 2 week’s time, when the final certificates and whatever leftover red...
The much talked about bouldering wall is finished. A simple design that was quick and easy (with some help) to set up once the work started. Last time I was still aiming for a roughly 75 degree overhang. In the end I threw out all the fancy angle calculations and fit in the wall as best...
We are in the process of losing our rivers. On top of our existing water pollution woes, the government simply does not abide by standing laws and grant coal prospecting rights along our major rivers to mining companies.
Many moons ago I started making plans to build a freestanding bouldering wall. I came up with this. ( As you can see I spent many hours with state of the art CAD software to carefully plan every detail :-P )
…..makes Jack a dull boy ( that’s a bad thing, I think ). Sooooo, I finished up my little private job despite some, shall we say, “challenges” wrt to my work environment - tonight it’s me and the boys from Metallica. My project entailed updating software I wrote some 6 years back called “Problem Solving and Decision...
