Furniture Auction in Cradock

We are currently visiting family in Cradock and heehaa - Thursday they have a furniture auction in town.  Please check this space for pics and possible finds.  Keeping my fingers crossed ....

Plant that tree - today.

I would like to encourage any readers of this post to plant that tree.  It is never too late!  We tend to put of planting trees because we feel that it would just take too long for them to grow.  But in just a few years you can actually sit under their shade - if it is a fast growing tree!  My Hubby and Oldest Son planted this Kinna Tree (or Quinine Tree) as it is also know, in 2005.  It is a fast growing tree which keeps its leaves only throwing a few yellow leaves in spring.  Today we can actually sit under its shade.

Hubby and Oldest Son doing some hard labour.

The Kinna Tree today

Bye Bye Mr Pool

We have been comtemplating digging out the pool for some time.  When the electricity rates escalated by 24% in June this year Hubby and I decided that the time has come.  We decided to recycle the pool.  After an advertisement on gumtree.co.za we found a Poolman who was prepared to take the pool, the pump and the Creepy Crawly (for free!) dig it out and replace the sand (for free!)  We started this project early in September.  It is now 98% finished with just one load of sand still to be worked into the hole.  New garden - here I come!

Watch the movie here ->  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1twfC7hE0g 

 Now to start preparing the soil.

Why Gloria?

So you might ask Why Gloria?  Our house is named Goria - which means Honor to God - or in Afrikaans: Ere aan God.  That sums up my view over my life - Honor to God.  Without Him I would not have been.  Period.  Below a few pics of the naming of our house.  I made the mosaic end of 2009 already, but you know, now is not too late to post about it.