African Adventures: The final countdown

I have 4 nights left to sleep in my own bed. Yowzers. I can't believe the time has flown by so fast!

The past few days have been pretty busy. On the weekend, I went to hang out with my family some more. I went with my parents up to my sister's place, then from there, we went to see my granny. I love my granny. We went and took her out for lunch one of our favourite chicken restaurants, and then instead of going straight home, we took a little drive. My granny seems to like going for drives - she doesn't seem to get out too much. But considering the fact that she's 90 years old, has a bum knee and poor eyesight, I think she does pretty well! One of the highlights of our drive was a little park where the geese were gathered.

All those little geese were hanging out two by two, and started to get pretty excited when a woman came along to feed them!

I was just happy to be inside the van and not out in the midst of all the geese, 'cause I still find them a bit scary. But they did put on a good show for us, and my granny had a hoot!

But they are quite statuesque and beautiful to watch!

After the geese had had their fill of the cracked corn the random geese feeding woman put out for them,we drove back to Granny's house for tea. I looked through all the old photo albums which she has on her shelf, including her wedding album and photos from so many years ago. What a blessing it is to have come from such a wonderful family, with such a great Christian heritage. I've been so blessed. I really enjoyed my afternoon with my granny. Even though she can't really see the photos anymore, she knows who's in each of the pictures and can still tell all the stories behind the pictures!

We drove back to my sister's house that night, and the next day dawned bright and clear. It was a gorgeous spring day! My sister wanted to do a bit of spring cleaning, so while the little guys played in the mud, my oldest nephew started a fire in the firepit to clear out some of the old junk in the shed.

We had us a good old book burning!

Now, normally, I'm not exactly into burning books. But these books had been free from a thrift store many years ago, and, well, quite frankly, had lived long and happy lives. In this case, they were taking up more than their fair share of the storage space in the shed.

However, they went out with a bang. All that sunshine and fire and spring in the air inspired me to want a good old fashioned hot dog roast! So off to town we went to grab some hot dogs, buns and fixin's for s'mores! And the heat from all that knowledge going up in flames fueled our bellies for supper!