Leave the stereotype behind.. what we call “rhinos” may be unicorns that are doubly awesome with their extra horns, just because they aren’t thin and white doesn’t mean they aren’t unicorns! OVER COME STEREOTYPES!!!
Image from http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6CQ3gYv7YLE/TvTZedBhKFI/AAAAAAAACaw/59aX8Rw4PDY/s1600/White-Rhino-Namibia+kenya+tanzania+south+africa+beautiful+dangerous+animal+attacksnews+animal+safari+pictures.jpg
Spot all grown up
Here are the 2011 Christmas Lights – They definitely look much cooler when you are standing in the middle, but my camera does not take them like that.
This is by far one of the colourful times of the year for many people , with the leaves changing colours and starting to drop. We are fortunate enough to only live only a couple of hours from the mountains so have the pleasure of whatching the foliage turn from green to orange and eventually brown . These were a couple of shots we took on a day out with the dogs and Linda getting back on her feet:
The last few months have been a rollercoaster ride with everything that has happened here in the states, but finally managed to take some time off and relax for a couple of days, well for me that was, but for Linda it was a recovery time from her operation. Finally the ordeal with Sean and the false accusations from the teacher are now past, so we can move forward with lessons learnt. Unfortunately we awoke the other morning to find our cat (Gizzy ) was not at the bottom of the bed, which was abnormal. A few minutes later we found out that he had been hit by a car during the night, so he is now at rest with Tag our first cat we had here. So in memory :
Newtons 3rd law states:
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
I beg to differ….A topic that has been adressed earlier today gave me mixed emotions….and I began to think more in depth of actions….specificly chain reactions….
I will use todays problem to explain what I thought about….
Today a person by the name of “student” was late….”teacher” had told him to go to lockout as it was his second offence….(it was his first time being late!)……Now if you think he lost a good 5 minutes going to lockout and doing the needed steps and coming back to class…..5 mins he could have been learning or helping someone…..Now if he had the 5 minutes to learn he would have read something to motivate him to do better…..but instead he now looks at school with a distain for all teachers….
Now his future has been changed by one persons stupidity…He might have become a proffessor, a marine biologist, “student”might have been the one to save humanity from tearing itself apart………………..
But now his future is even a little bit less bright in his eyes….He may go home and swear at his parents, he may go home and never come back, ”student” could have such hate for people working for schools that he might try to get rid of school totally from this world….
The new law should be: for every action, there is a unknown effect.
no matter what you do…you will affect something….You may be killing someone just by stepping on a seed on the sidewalk…..that seed would’ve become a fruit tree that grows during a war, and it feeds the people who have no food…..But now that seed has no future to save others…..People will starve…People will die because of OUR actions we take!
By me typing this, I have no clue of the outcome or even fathom the effects this article will have for the future….
I myself am scared to make any actions….but every thought is an action….
Gabar in the Garden
The same day I took this photograph my parents told me this funny facts, the kids who smile live, on average, nine years longer. Once i heard this, I thought of this picture. So hee it is, Bovril will live nine years longer than the average daschund-chihuahua-rat terrier, yay!
If you are a frequent visiter here you might have seen our rabbits. these however are our dogs, big diffrence 
in order they are Bovril, Taz and Sandy.
Bovril is in the left, is a daschund-chihuahua-rat terrier mix. He is a leap year baby, of 2008. Although we have had him the longest of the three he is the 
youngest.
Taz is in the right, is a chihuahua-daschund mix (no rat terrier). She was born sometime in january, 2009. She is our “oldest” dog.
Last but not least is Sandy, she is the below picture. She is just a plain chihuahua. Hmm the breeds are shrinking… She was born sometime in March 2010.
Taz and Sandy will bark at you if they see you, but Bovril will come up to you waggging his tail wanting to make friends. 
Morning Sunrise on the journey to work. What an Inspiration!
George Bernard Shaw once claimed, “This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it what I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It’s a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
Declan and a few of his fellow classmates had to create a modernised MacBeth scene and they wrote the script, made their own clothes and then acted the parts. They then had to edit and create a video of their result to get assessed on their performance. MacBeth Sorry this video is not great quality, it is just huge when I upload the full resolution piece – 2GB, but the link is only 14MB
Declan, Skye, Ross, Linda, Sean
Today we all went up to the Zootastic zoo to have a midday BBQ (American Style braai) There was Blue Grass music (the kids were not too keen on that!), but the afternoon turned out to be good fun. Finally we managed to get a picture of all us together – very seldom happens, and from looking at the picture you can probably guess why, when you consider out of 10 images captured , this was the most appropriate one. (Thanks Daniel for helping get the shot). Linda and Skye are staying up there as volunteers until the end of the day, so will probably be exhaused by the time they get home.
Bartosz 2010
This was taken with the camera at arms length. Oh yea obviously my arms are not very long, but you can at least get to see most of us.
Guineafowl in our back garden
There is a saying that goes as follows: “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush”, and another saying : ” If Mohammid won’t come to the mountain , then the mountain will come to Mohammid”. but in this instance we have found the following to be true: ” If you cannot be in the bush, the next best thing is to allow the bush to come to you. “
Special Flower Variety ,Unique to Zimbabwe
Occasionally we get to do a bit of yard work to help spruce up the place. Seldom do we find rare and unique plants that need special care and attention, but on this day we were very fortunate and look what we found whilst clearing up the bushes in the garden