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Good afternoon Hannes,

I think that it is bad to take work home, as it scuppers one's personal life, but as long as it's for the benefit of others, then it's okay 😉

Well, look at it this way, there is normal, and then there is another normal. The latter normal is for you and me, as we regard the normal, normal as abnormal, if this makes sense to you 😜 !LOLZ

Remember when you still had to wait for 7 years ? And then it quickly changed to 5 years? Well, another 3 years will also pass, and then on the last day, we will discuss how quickly the time passed right here in the replies 😊😉😲😁

At 19C it starts getting cold here and 10C it starts to freeze. But the great news for you is that today is the Equinox and that is the announcement of Spring in the northern hemisphere 🤪

Great that you have 2 weekends free, as mother nature is waiting for you to come and get some lovely spring shots. I have forgotten about the van, and hope that it is still going well 🙏

Thank you and I also wish you the best for the rest of the week my friend 😊

Cheers and thanks.

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Good morning Zac,

I don't do it often, but sometimes I have to complete a task for the next day, and sometimes I don't want to stay at work ... so I take work home 😅

I think we are the normal ones and all the others are not normal at all 😂 !LOLZ

At the moment every day and week goes so fast. It's Wednesday already this week and when I go home today there are only two days left till weekend.

Hihi, we have been talking about this before - at 10C you had a thick coat on while I would be walking in t-shirt and short beside you 😆

The van is fine, but it's waiting for an appointment at the van doctor's - our friend doesn't have time at the moment, but he'll fix everything when we change from winter to summer tires in a couple of weeks.

Hope everything's going well and you have an awesome Wednesday, my friend 🌞😊

Sending !PIZZA and !LUV as always 😉
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Good evening Hannes,

ah! So you don't like to stay at work, as there is more freedom at home, that's good unless you have to sit up to midnight to get the work done 😉

Nope, normal is boring, and I would much rather call us abnormal, as it makes more sense 🤪 !LOLZ

I am sure that the planet is spinning faster, as in the old days, an hour felt like half a day. and now an hour feels like 15 minutes 🥴

Oh yeah, thanks for reminding me that we chatted about it before, and it is the truth about what you are saying. Strange how our bodies can accept different temperatures according to the situations. If I grew up there, we would both be walking around in T-shirts and shorts 🤣

So, your van has its own doctor, and I hope that he is not as expensive as our doctors over here. At least the van's doctor won't tell him to take a pill and go home 🤣😁😆

Very hot here my friend, and I so wish that I could put some heat in a big bottle and send it to you.
Hope that your Thursday will be great, as then it's only one day before the weekend 😊

Cheers and thanks.

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Good morning Zac,

yep, but after sitting at the computer for many hours at work I hate turning the computer on at home ... at least for work 😜

Right, our "normal" is the better normal in my eyes 😂 !LOLZ

The work weeks run much faster, but the weekends run even faster 😱

Our van doctor often doesn't even take money - my wife bakes a cake for him and it's all paid 👉👍

Yesterday was another long day at work, but today's Friday and I can already smell the weekend 😁

It's a bit wet here and I would appreciate a bit more warmth, but Spring is already here and even if it snows in April, Mother Nature has begun to put her green dress on 😀

Hope everything's fine and you have a great start into the weekend, my friend 🌞😊

Sending !PIZZA and !LUV as always 😉
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Good morning Hannes,

I know how it feels to turn the computer on at home, as it means more work, and a person is supposed to rest at home. But work likes to steal our resting time 😉

Even though the world is chasing money, no amount of money can buy our normal, as our brains were differently wired because the wire stocks ran out in heaven 😜 !LOLZ

True, and it's because we enjoy the free weekends more, so time flies even faster 😛

Your van doctor sounds like a very good guy, and I am glad that you have such a friend, as they are scarce these days 😊

Hahaha, I hope that you will not be disappointed at any time during the weekend 🙏

Yay! We are at 24C for the next 4 days, including today, and they reckon that Sunday we will have rain. Sky is thick with cloud now. But you must enjoy your new spring and I hope that you will see much new beauty my friend 😲

All of the very best for you this weekend!

Cheers and thanks.

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Hi Zac,

I've got a few minutes... 😅

Many, many years ago we opened a bottle of wine or two on Fridays, and from midday on we've been celebrating the weekend 😂 !LOLZ these times are long gone.

Very true, our normal is special and you can't learn it - either you have it or not 😇😜

Our van doctor is also our friend - actually, his wife is the best friend of my wife, and our kids have gron up together.

I want to have a relaxed weekend and will try not to think of work. I have seen photos of green meadows with lots of Spring flowers a bit to the south in Slovenia. Maybe I'll drive somewhere there tomorrow.

24C sounds good, and a little bit of rain sounds nice as well. I hope that your weather forecast is right and you'll also have a relaxing weekend, my friends 🌞😊

Sending !PIZZA and !LUV as always 😉
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Good evening Hannes,

Yep, many years ago and I am glad that we eventually got a little bit wiser over time. I never liked wine, as it gave me terrible headaches, so I stuck to Vodka. But that was as you say, a long time ago. Now it's only coffee 😊 !LOLZ

Glad that it's not for sale my friend 😜🤪😀

Ah, so it's a personal friend and that's always a good thing. He takes care of your van, and when he gets into trouble with the law, you can help him. Only joking as longtime friends are scarce nowadays and thankfully, I also have a few 😉

Sounds like a good plan and the beauty of the meadows with the spring flowers will certainly take your mind off work. I wish you well on your trip 🙏

They almost got it right, as we ended on 25C and no rain, but some beautiful clouds. So, we went to a new high spot that I found, and I took some sunset photos on the ocean.
Here's an idea what it looked like, and I will soon do a post about it.

I hope that you will forget about work until Monday and that you will also have a relaxing weekend my friend 😊

Cheers and thanks.

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Good evening Zac,

I preferred beer and whisky, but whisky made me mad. Sometimes I enjoyed heavy spanish wine, but I drank it like beer, so you can imagine how drunk I got in a short time 😂😜 !LOLZ ... luckily these times are over for both of us, but I prefer tea to coffee 😉

I shouldn't have expected green meadows full of flowers, because there's still not much spring flower growth going on here, at least not at the places I usually visit. Never mind, I have encountered a few new places and this is the only shot of flowers I have got ... the only one that was reasonable good enough to be edited ... the others are really bad:

Here it has got cold and windy and yesterday it even snowed here in town, but it was all gone today. Yesterday a t-shirt was all that I needed, but today I had to put two jackets on.
I have driven to Italy this morning, but the weather was not good - it was so stormy that I even couldn't get out of the car and had to shoot through the window.

So you took sunset photos at the sea and I've been at the sea in the morning. Your new place looks very promising and I'm sure to see more cool photos from there in future 👍

The weekend is over - hope you've had a good time, my friend, and I'm wishing you a great start into the new week 🌞😊

Sending !PIZZA and !LUV as always 😉
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Oh yes, those were our bad days, and I a am happy that the Lord showed us the error of our ways. I also like tea, especially when I am out in a hot desert 😊 !LOLZ

That flower photo is lovely, but you know that it's still early in the season. So, a bit later and I am sure that you will get a heap of flower photos 😜

Wow, two jackets for you means that it was really cold, and it sounds like there was a cold winter snap. Winter always fights before it goes away, and it's the same here.
At least you could get a few fabulous sea photos, even if they were taken through the car window 😲

Yep! We were both at the sea, and so we think alike. I also returned to the new place, as the clouds looked good, so I waited for the sun to set.
I posted it today.

And this was a bit later.

I hope that your new week started well my friend.

Cheers and thanks.

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Hi Zac,

I drink tea when it's cold as well as when it's hot - and it's great that way 😀

This year I want to take different photos: I want to take more macros and smaller scenes... thanks that you like the photo 😀

It was cold, but today I'm wearing a short sleeve shirt again 😅

This morning we had fire in the sky, almost like in your beautiful second photo, but unfortunately I was too late, so all the colors were gone when I left home. Otherwise I would have made a little detour on my way to work.

My days are as busy as usual these days, but that way I am tired enough at night to sleep through 😆 !LOLZ

Hope you're having an awesome Tuesday, my friend 🌞😊

Sending !PIZZA and !LUV as always 😉
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Hi Hannes,

The wife insists on us drinking Rooibos tea, as it is made from some healthy medicinal bushes that grow in only one area of the country. I don't like it very much, but to keep the peace, I drink the stuff 😜

A change is always good, and it feels great to do some different things for a change, otherwise it is just the same old, same old. I always like your photos my friend 😉

You and your short sleeves in the cold, it gives me the shivers 🥴

Funny how just a few minutes later, things can change in nature. I had the same thing with the full moon last night, as I wanted to get the moon on a mountain peak, but by the time that I got onto the roof, the moon was well clear above the mountains. Thankfully a plane on the moon made up for it 😍

Yep! Hard and honest work like you do, can certainly make one tired at night. But then again, you can get a good sleep as a bonus 😊 !LOLZ

Tuesday was another interesting day weatherwise, and I hope that your Wednesday will be great 🙏

Cheers and thanks.

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Hi Zac,

I know this tea and I have tried it, but it's somehow not my taste - healthy things never taste good, do they? I usually drink ordinary fruit teas and sometimes a black tea with milk.

Trying something different from time to time helps me to stay interested in things. That's why I took these shots yesterday after work. I'm still not patient enough for wildlife photography, but these ducks have been so nice and patient with me 😀 !LOLZ

15C today - I'm wearing a t-shirt, of course 😆

Yep, Mother Nature has a lot of fun with us. I'm looking forward to the photo of the moon with the plane.

If everything goes as planned I'll finish work earlier today and maybe take some photos somewhere later, but it's rainy outside, so I don't know yet.

Wishing you also a great Wednesday, my friend 😊🌞

Sending !PIZZA and !LUV as always 😉
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Hi Hannes,

I believe that my grandma said that anything that is bitter is good for the body. But now who likes bitter things?. Black tea with sugar is great 😉

Oh yes, the differences are what makes us tick, and there is plenty of alternatives to be found in nature.
Those 2 duck shots are splendid my friend, and I hope that soon you will show me some eagle shots. The only difference is that eagles are not as patient as the lovely ducks 😜 !LOLZ

Oh, at 15C, I thought that you would go for a swim and lay on your towel in the sun 🤣🤣🤣

By now you have seen the plane on the moon, and it was so unexpected that I only had a few seconds to get it. Had I known that it was coming, I would have zoomed much closer, and it took me totally by surprise. Another joke on me by Mother nature 🥴😲😉

I hope that the rain stopped to allow you to take some photos my friend 🙏

Wednesday is still durable for a few shots in the garden, but we have another of those hectic winds going to today. Apart from the rain, I hope as I said above, that you will also get some shots in 😊

Cheers and thanks.

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Good morning Zac,

actually, I used to love these bitter things when I was young or healthy fluids like cod liver oil 😜 !LOLZ

Thanks, my friend, and an eagle or another big bird of prey is on my bucket list, of course, but you know my impatience ... and these ducks came to me, I didn't search them 😆

The sun didn't shine and it was wet outside, so laying in the grass was no option 😉

Sometimes I see such things, but when I realize that I could take a photo, even with my phone, the situation is long gone ... kudos to you, my friend 👍

It's still rainy here, but I hope for a nice Easter weekend. We'll be meeting with my wife's family and maybe visit my family too. My daughter will also come for a couple of days, so I don't really mind the weather, although I still hope for some Spring good flower photos.

I'll be not much online in the next days, but I'll try to be here when I can, and I hope that you two guys will also have a great weekend ... some lovely and peaceful Easter holidays 😊🐇

Sending !PIZZA and !LUV as always 😉
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Good evening Hannes,

I dreaded the tablespoon full of castor oil that my mom used to give to us to drink once every month. Not only does it taste like a hyena's tail, but it also spills one's guts out into the toilet. 🤮 !LOLZ

You will get your eagle my mate, sooner or later and it's always so nice when birds come to pose for one. Here's a heron that posed for me.

So, when you lay on the wet grass, then you don't have to bath later 😜

Oh yes, I call those misses "for my eyes only" and it also happens often to me 😉

Now this sounds so nice, the meetings with the family I mean. I regard Easter as 4 Sundays in a row. So, an old friend visited today, and tomorrow we are invited for lunch by Marian's aunts. Thankfully then the visits will be over and I will have much time in nature.
I hope that you will have a great with your loved ones 👍😊😍

I will see you when I see you, and please forget work over this period and enjoy yourself 😊

Cheers and thanks.

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Good morning Zac,

sorry, but at work I don't have any time these days, and at home I just do the neccessary things, although the conversation with you is more important than the one I have to do with my bank 😆 !LOLZ

I think this delicious fluid was popular all over the world when we were young, and I really liked it, honestly 😇

Until I get my eagly I take the smaller birds, much smaller than the head of your beautiful heron ... Monday morning I was on a short walk and this little guy, an Eurasian Wren, landed on a tree about 20 meters away from me:

Haha, would I have to take my clothes off and roll around in the grass, or if I keep the clothes on while rolling around, I wouldn't even have to ask my wife to wash the clothes later? 🤣

The Easter weekend is already over since yesterday, and I am glad that we haven't been around so much this year. It was a rather quiet weekend, no rushing from relatives to relatives, and I liked it.

Hopefully you have enjoyed the past few days too and have a great day, my friend 🌞😊

Sending !PIZZA and !LUV as always 😉
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Good morning Hannes,

No worries, as I know that you are busy. I don't think that your bank will be happy with this statement, and I am thrilled that you regard me more important than your bank 😜 !LOLZ

That "delicious" fluid got me in much trouble in my younger days, and if I had known then what I know now, I would never have touched it. Thankfully sanity prevailed, and now I am 100% clean 😊

Wow! You got the Eurasian Wren in a singing mood, and these are fantastic photos my friend. A beautiful little guy and well done. 😲

Yep! Mother nature will wash your clothes and I am sure that your wife will be very happy 🤪

It sounds like you had a good and much needed rest my friend, and I am glad that you had a great Easter weekend. We were invited for lunch on Saturday by Marian's two aunts, and that was it. Also, very quiet and peaceful the rest of the time.

I hope that you will have a great week my friend 😊🙏👍

Cheers and thanks.

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Good morning Zac,

oh, my bank is very happy with me - every three months they send me a thank you letter telling me how much I pay them because the numbers on my account are red and not black 😂 !LOLZ

I think you're not speaking about castor oil or cod liver oil anymore ... I'm so very happy that I don't drink any alcohol anymore. My son doesn't drink either, but my daughter does. She's working in a pub and so she can't even avoid it, I believe.

Thanks that you like the photos. I tried to patiently wait for the bird to come closer to me, but after 5 minutes my patience was over 😁

I've got a lot to do today and later we have a meeting. Don't think I'll turn the computer on at home. Yesterday it stayed off too - saves a lot energy costs 🤣

It's Thursday and I'm looking forward to a nice and warm Spring weekend without work. If the weather is right I want to try to take astro photos.

Wishing you a lovely day and good start into the weekend, my friend 🌞😊

Sending !PIZZA and !LUV as always 😉
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Good evening Hannes,

Wow! Your bank sends you a thank you letter, and mine only sends me letters of demands. A funny world that we live in 😉 !LOLZ

Yuck no, and I am just as happy as you are, as it is a long time now that I also don't drink anymore. So, we have both regained our sanity, the little bit that we have of it. I don't think that a pub is the best place for your daughter to work at. I know that she is happy with all of her friends, but you and I know that alcohol always comes with problems. So, we will pray for her 🙏

Sniff! 5 minutes and I suppose that you are serious. 25 minutes might have been much better, but I know that you are a slow learner 🤪

I would rather have a lot to do than to have a meeting. We had a 3 hour meeting today and at the end, all of us ran away like the devil was after us 🤣
To save more money I think you must also leave the TV and the fridge off 😉

Great that you will have the weekend off and I have no idea what astro photos are 😲

I really hope that you will enjoy the weekend my friend and we will also try to take things easy. 😊

Cheers and thanks.

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Good morning Zac,

it's only the account statement with the quarterly statement that they send me, but I can see their smile between the numbers 😂 !LOLZ luckily working for the government in Austria means you get paid each month.

My daughter is just like me when I was young, but maybe working in the pub makes it a little bit worse because I went to the pub after work and she works there 😱 but I know that just like me, she'll find the right path before it's too late 🙏

Haha, 25 minutes waiting at one place? Maybe when I'm sleeping I'd be able to do that, but I'm trying hard, believe me, and because I want to take more wildlife photos, I'll have to learn a bit more patience, I know.

Since I don't need cool beer anymore, the fridge isn't that important anymore, but I need the TV to fall asleep 😜

I want to take photos of the stars - the Milky Way and such things ✨

Have a wonderful weekend, my friends 🌞😊

Sending !PIZZA and !LUV as always 😉
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Good afternoon Hannes,

Of course you can see their smile, as they charge you a service fee for anything that they send to you. Great that you get a salary payment every month, and the bank is also happy, as you have to pay them fees to get your salary each month 😜 !LOLZ

Great! For some reason I pushed "Enter" after the part above, and now I have to do the rest in "Edit" 🥴
I think your daughter is cleverer that you, as you had to go to the pub after work, and she is already there. Maybe you should try to scare her, by telling her about the bad things that you did when you were drunk. Like the time that you danced naked down the city hall steps for all of Austria to see 🤪

I know that you and Lady Patience are not friends yet, but she is persistent and eventually, she will win the battle to teach an Austrian Mountain Goat real patience 🤣

Astro, I should have known that, but in my defense, I am turning 70 tomorrow, so from now on I can really blame my forgetfulness on age.
I hope that you will get some great photos and I read somewhere that there will also be another eclipse soon, so maybe you also get photos of it 🙏

May you and yours also have a splendid weekend my young friend 😊

Cheers and thanks.

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Hi Zac,

let me wish you a Happy Birthday before I reply ... have a great day, my friend, and I wish you to get the most important present of all, especially in our age: health and happiness 🙏

Of course my daughter is cleverer than me, but on the other hand it's easy to be cleverer than me 😂 !LOLZ

Who told you about my naked dance? But it wasn't in the city hall, it was on the ain square in front of the town hall ... I can't remember though 🤣

I have seen a lovely little bird today, but Lady Patience seems to sleep longer on weekends 😉

Unfortunately, the eclipse cannot be seen here, but there will be another some day. Also the Milky Way can't be seen very well here this time of year, but soon 😀

As said in the beginning, I wish you all the best to your birthday, Zac, enjoy the day and weekend with Marian 🌞😊

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Hi Hannes,

I really thank you for all of the birthday wishes and thankfully we had a quiet day. Only disrupted when people wanted to speak to me on Marian's phone. So. I hope that your wish for health comes true 😊

Nah, she will only act exactly like her father would, and nothing wrong with that 😜 !LOLZ

Oh, I apologize for getting the venue of your naked dance wrong, as I am really old now. I knew that it was somewhere where you could get the maximum count of public eyes on you 😲

She is dodging you now, as her name is Patience, and she is not in a hurry to get you right now 🤣

Yeah, I saw a map today and the people in the lower parts of the USA continent will see it. But you are right as even us way down south will also be able to see it someday again. Over here, the milky way can be seen very clear in the Karoo all year round 😉

Frightening wind speeds here the whole day my friend, and warnings are out for floods tomorrow in KZN, where Joan and Lizelle live. Then storms and hail inland towards Gauteng where Marian's parents live.

Thank you very much for all of your birthday wishes and we also wish you a great weekend my friend.

Cheers and thanks.

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Good morning Zac,

you're most welcome, my friend, and if one wish should come true, then it has to be the one for health 🙏

I'm working another 24-hour shift and at the moment it's a bit quiet, so I try to make my overdue replies.

You're probably right, my daughter will act just like I did, and I do hope that fortune is with her, just like it was with me.

I'm getting too old to dance naked in public. Some years ago they might have got great eyes and the women ... but nowadays they might throw rotten tomatoes or eggs at me 😂 !LOLZ

If I'm not wrong then the Milky Way is seen best here in Summer ... I'll see.

We have pretty much the opposite weater here: it's warm like in Summer, but they are predicting snow again. I don't think it will snow here, but I'll wait till May to change my tires from winter to summer tires.
Hopefully the weather down there will not cause too big damages 🙏

I'm wishing you an awesome day, my friend 🌞😊

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Good evening Hannes,

without heath life is not worth living methinks, so thank you again 🙏

Sorry to hear that you are on shift again, and thank you for spending your quiet time to reply to all of us. I thought that you would prefer to rather get some paid sleep 🤣

Oh yes, they say that the apple does not fall far from the tree, and I am sure that her time will come to settle down. Just pray that she will not reach the age of 60 before she decides to settle down 😜

Nah! If you carried on drinking, then they will throw stuff at you, but you are now sober and still in good shape, and sober people don't dance around naked in public 😉 !LOLZ

Yep, and I am looking forward to your photos 👍

You guys are preparing for summer and we are preparing for winter. Good idea not to change the tires too soon, as one never knows what the future holds.
Both the strong winds and the fires created havoc here, and the repairs are going to cost millions. There are still some warnings out and if you Google "Weather, Western Cape, South Africa" you will see what I mean 😲

Thank you, and I wish you a quiet and uneventful night shift my friend 🙏

Cheers and thanks.

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Good morning Zac,

the shift is almost at its end and it wasn't too bad, I'm quite tired though and today's gonna be another long day - my boss is off work and the co-worker in our main quarter is ill.

If my daughter is like me she'll be in her fifties when she will become serious 😂 !LOLZ

You haven't seen me yet, I haven#t done anything during Winter and my shape is like somer kind of bottle - the ones that have a big belly 😆 I really need to do something before my first hike this year.

We are always moaning about our weather and every storm is a disaster. There have been some really bad weather situations lately, but I don't think that any is only near to the storms you have each year.

I thank you very much and wish you a pleasant Wednesday, my friend 🌞😊

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Good morning Hannes,

Oh know, and I have just wished you to have a great day in the previous reply. You will just have to tough it out my friend 🥴

Let's hope that in that case, she will be cleverer than her father, and that she will become serious in her 30s 😉 LOLZ

Well then this is no problem, as you just have to follow the bottle process. First, empty the bottle, and then recycle the bottle. Marian reckons that you have such a nice personality that you should not have become a cop. She thinks that you should rather have become a tour guide, as you are good with people 🥴

They have delivered some preliminary stats about the results of the "Black South Easter" storm.
108 uprooted trees thus far removed, 36 house, business, and school roofs blown off, and I forget about the number of damages to houses and shacks in the townships that were damaged by the fires and the floods. They say that this storm was worse than the winter storm of 2023. All our schools are also still closed. We had a hectic time my friend.
Such is life.

So, you also try to have a good day my friend 😊

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Good morning Zac,

our new co-workers are awesome, but there's so much to do and so much for them to learn... 😅

I also hope that she's much cleverer than me 😜 !LOLZ

Oh yes, Marian is right as I never wanted to become a cop. It was the wish of my family and after police school I was happy to get a job offer in the head quarter. So I have never been on the streets ... I have never annoyed the people except my own colleagues 😂 but I don't think I could be a tour guide or so, because I prefer to be alone most times and enjoy the beauty of Mother Nature without noisy people around me 😉

We definitely have not a single reason to make complains about our weather - no storm here can be as bad as your storms down there which you have every year again and again.

I'm wishing you a wonderful weekend, my friend, hopefully with best weather and no storms 🌞😊

Sending !PIZZA and !LUV as always 😉
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Good morning Hannes,

I am sure that by the time of your retirement, you will have seen to it that all of the co-workers are fully trained 😊

Life has a way to place us where it wants us, and they must have noticed at the Police school that you have some special abilities. Only the brightest students at Police school are offered jobs at headquarters.
So, you were led into your career by the Spirit, and you were well looked after until this time now. I have a feeling that it will continue after your retirement until the day that you depart this planet.
You will get tons of time to be alone in nature after you retire as a bonus 😊🙏😉

It is what it is about the storms, and there is nothing that we or you can do about it. We just have to accept it, prepare for it every winter and carry on with life, hoping that we will not be the next victims.
Much can be done for the poor people that live in shacks, but that is the government's job, as they have to supply the land and the building material for new houses.

Cool and clear skies now Hannes, and I wish you the very same 😊😀😆

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Good morning Zac,

I am visiting my daughter this weekend and don't think I will be much online till Monday.

!LOLZ they have seen that I am not suitable for the streets, so they put me behind a desk where I cannot harm anything or anybody. They were quite wrong 🤣

I hope that you will never be a victim of the bad weather 🙏 Yesterday I have seen some news from South Africa, and it was really bad ... I have never experienced such storms and fires and I hope that I never will.

It's hot here with blue skies, but for next week they predict cold weather again. It's still early Spring, so it's quite normal.

Wishing you a wonderful weekend, my friend 😊🌞

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Good afternoon Hannes,

I hope that you will have a great visit at your daughter's place, and see you back on Monday 😊

Oh yeah, you have stolen my reply, as I was also going to say that they made the wrong decision, as you might have turned out to be the best cop that they ever had on the streets 😲 !LOLZ

Thank you and by now we know how to stay out of the danger zones, and we also avoid traveling around with the car. We had some near misses, such as on the road in the car and dodging a falling tree, the only scratched the car, I posted about it, and all of the near misses was training for us to avoid trouble. Glad that you saw some of it and there's also a lot of it in videos on YouTube
We also hope that you will never have to experience the freak storms in nature, as it is never very pleasant, and in fact it is very dangerous 😲

Thank you, and may your visit also be sublime on the weekend my friend 😊

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Good morning Zac,

thank you, we've had some fun, a delicious lunch and later we visited my niece who is living nearby.

Oh no, I could never have worked on the streets - I like to drive faster than allowed and could never stop and punish people for doing the same that I do 😂 !LOLZ

Take care, my friend, a scratch in the car doesn't hurt and can possibly be polished out, but a scratch on the skin hurts and polishing it out is no option.

My weekend was much too short, as always, but I hope yours was awesome.

I'm having another night shift and I'll be working next weekend too, so this week will be a long and busy week.

Wishing you a great week, my friend, hopefully the weather turns to sunshine 🌞😊

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Good evening Hannes,

glad that you guys had a good time, and at the next break, you should maybe think about visiting your parents 🙏

Ha, over here the cops whizz around in their cars like jets, so I am sure that you would have set an example for the other officers to also not arrest speeding drivers 🤣 !LOLZ

Thanks, and we do take care my friend. I managed to polish all of the scratches off before we sold the car. You are right about scratches on the skin, as I still struggle with many since my bike accident long ago 😉

I think that time has stolen a day out of our weekends 🤪

Shame, so now you have to pay your time at work for the fun that you had on the past weekend. Life works like that 🥴

We already have sunshine, and fortunately the days are starting to get cooler to ease us into winter. But I have a feeling that we will be facing more bad storms, as we are in a winter rain area, and close to the Atlantic ocean. I also hope that your week will not be too taxing on you due to all of the workload that you have waiting for you 🙏

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Good morning Zac,

it has been a quite nice shift and I'm already packing my things together to move back to my own office.

You're right, a visiting my parents is overdue.

We have so many new young cops who don't care who they stop for speeding - policemen, firefighters and even the mayor has to behave 😆

Yep, I remember your bike accident, but these scratches are worse than any scratch that I've ever got.

I agree, the weekend has lost at least one day, if not two or three 😂 !LOLZ

I'm glad that the weather has become sunny and cooler. Here it's also become a bit cooler and it might rain in the next days. Hopefully your Winter storms will not be as bad.

I'll try to get home earlier today because I'm quite tired although the shift wasn't too bad, but the next days will be long days because of a colleague's Blackout project - we are testing if the repaired generators in our headquarter work.

Wishing you a lovely day my friend 😊🌞

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Good evening Hannes,

you are packing up to go to your day office, and I am walking around like a zombie., Only 3 hours of sleep last night, as Marian had stomach and back pains the whole night. So, you can say that I also worked nightshift 😴

Now that's great thinking 😉

Ha, I would love to see the mayor's face when a young cop issues him with a speeding fine 🤣

You don't have such scratches because you hide in your office every day 🤪 !LOLZ

Time works undercover my friend, and before you know it the day is over. And you have not done half of the things that you wanted to do 😊😲🥴

Highest temp here this week will be tomorrow at 25C and the rest of the week will be in the lower 20s.
It seems that the weather is easing us gently into the winter this year. Yes, we also hope that the storms will be calmer, but from what we have seen thus far, it's going to be tough again 🙏

Good that you will try to get home earlier, as you need the rest. It's easy to test if the generators will start up after a black out. Just switch off the main switch of the building and then go and hide if the generators don't start up, because there will be an angry crowd after your skin 😁🤪😇

Hope that you will have a good Thursday my friend.

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Good morning Zac,

your nightshift was worse than mine, I believe, and I hope that Marian is feeling better by now. Please give her my best wishes for a speedy recovery. I hate stomach ache and although my back is quite fine, my shoulder pain still hasn't completely gone. So I can relate to Marian's pain, but I do know that you care very well for her, although you're a Zombie, a nice Zombie 😉

Here the Mayor would be angry just as anyone, but he would pay.

True, apart from falling from my chair when I fall asleep during work, there's no chance for me to get scratches at work 😂 !LOLZ

Time flies when there's a lot to do, and you're right, not half of the work was done when I left my office yesterday 😜 I got home a bit earlier, but then I slept almost till bedtime 😱

I do honestly hope that you're right and Mother Nature will give you a gentle Winter this year. By the way, it snowed here yesterday, but today it's all gone again.

Haha, that's exactly what we are going to do, but we can't hide, because everyone knows that we are doing it. The main problem is the emergency call center and IT forensics areas and such, because they can't be without energy for more than a few minutes, but for these areas we also have independent power supply, which we hope will work 😅

I'm wishing you a wonderful Wednesday, my friend 😊🌞

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Good afternoon Hannes,

I thank you kindly for the care and Marian sends her love. She is thankfully much better today. Long term pain, such as your shoulder, and at times your fingers, cannot be very pleasant, but like me, we just have to endure. I do care for her, but when I am very tired, then I am not a nice Zombie. I am sure that you are the same 😜

He has to set the example and if he doesn't pay, then he will get arrested 😲

So, the only kind advice that I can give you is to sleep on your chair with one eye open, as then it will watch that you don't fall of the chair 🤣 !LOLZ

Yeah, so you did the other half of the work today, and if you sleep until bedtime, then you struggle to sleep during nighttime, so then it's time for playing a bit of rugby, or watching the TV, until you fall asleep, just before you have to get up to go to work 🤪

Guess what? We also had snow in the Lesotho mountains, and today is nice and cool 23C. So, I hope that your hope will come true 🙏

Haha, as long as everyone knows that you are doing it this way, then things will go well. Independent power supply for the emergency and forensics departments is a great idea and I hope that your tests with the generators work out very well 😊

Now it's time to wish you a great Thursday my friend 👍

Cheers and thanks.

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Good morning Zac,

I'm happy that Marian's feeling better and I believe that if we all turned into Zombies, you'd be the only nice one who eats vegetable instead of brains 😆

When I have one eye open I can't sleep because I see all the work piles on my desktop 😉

Right, I have done the work yesterday, but yesterday's work took till the late evening, so no rugby playing possible, and the TV was watching itself, because I was asleep 😂 !LOLZ

Cool, you've had snow. That must have looked nice. Our snow is all gone and we're having about 3C, but it's getting warmer up to 11C on the weekend 😱

The tests yesterday worked very well and hopefully today will be as successful as yesterday has been ... but hopefully not as long as yesterday.

I'm wishing you also a wonderful Thursday, my friends 🌞😊

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Good evening Hannes,

thank you and she is good again, but now you are accusing me of being a vegan, I would rather eat grasshoppers than berries, as I love meat. Btw, sheep brains taste nice, but I don't know what mountain goat brains taste like 😁

One eye open will at least help you not to fall of the chair, and the piles on your desk will remind you not to sleep on the job 🤣

Shame, I tell you that you are one of the hardest workers that I know, and if I could, then I will write a letter to your bosses to tell them that they should give you a medal and a golden watch for time served well, when you retire. Skipping a game of rugby will result in something rusting away and then there would be no fun 🤪 !LOLZ

Nope, not us, as Lesotho is a neighboring country and they have very high mountains. That's where the snow was, and the wind brought the cold weather to us. Marian says that I must tell you that at 22C we wear coats, and at 11C we will freeze 😉

So glad that the tests worked well, and I am sure that tomorrow it will work better over a shorter time span. Well done! 👍👍👍

So may you also have a much shorter day at work on Thursday, and that you will have a great day my friend 🙏

Cheers and thanks.

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Good morning Zac,

although I sometimes think I should reduce meat and eat more vegetables, I still love meat and can't imagine become a vegetarian, and I don't even want to think about how being a vegan might be ... I love my steak medium rare 😂 !LOLZ

I just wonder how one open eye could help me not falling from my chair 🤔

Actually, we get such medals after 40 years, which will be next year for me, but whether you work or not, you get it anyway 😛

Okay, I'll tell my wife that it's only to prevent me from rusting 🤣

This morning there was ice on the windshield ... I know that you feel cooler temperatures more than we do, just as we sweat at temperatures that you feel cozy 😅

Yesterday's tests took even longer, but at 8pm it was all over and everything worked fine - a Blackout wouldn't matter at all, at least for a couple of days.

It's Friday and if I didn't have to work tomorrow I would be looking forward to the weekend, but weekend shifts are more or less easy.

Thanks, my friend, I'm wishing you a great start into a wonderful weekend 🌞😊

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Good evening Hannes,

same here, and I think that we were spoiled from small with meat. Veggies are okay for side dishes and salads, but the main item of a meal should always be some juicy meat. We are fully agreed 😊 !LOLZ

I also wonder at that saying "Sleep with one eye open". and in the army they would use it for us to sleep lightly in case we were suddenly attacked. Nobody slept with one eye open 😅

40 years in the police force! I have to say that I admire you, as the longest that I survived in any job was 5 years tops. So, you are my hero 😊

Lol, no comment to this one 😉

Oh yes, ice on the windshield we are used to, and we will have it again soon. But your weather and ours are miles apart if I may say so, and I will die if I have to swim during winter here in the Atlantic Ocean. You will of course love it. 🥴

Great that it worked out fine, and now you are good to go, so now you have to wait for a real power cut, and that can take a very long time. So, we hold thumbs that you get a power cut soon 🤣 🤪

Ah shame, we feel for you having to work shifts on weekend, and maybe you will have another free weekend soon my friend. Something to remember when you reach my age, every day is weekend, or whatever day you prefer 😊👍😁

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Good morning Zac,

I wanted to reply yesterday, but after nightshift I drove to Slovenia to take some photos and returned soon because I felt somehow ill. At home I went to bed and slept till this morning. I'm feeling much better today and so I had to go to work 😢 !LOLZ

Yep, meat is definitely needed 👍

Haha, here I belong to the generation of people who stick to their job, I believe, because the Generation "X" and such change their jobs more often than I change my underwear 😜

Here some people make holes into the ice of a lake and go for a swim 🥶

To be honest, I don't look forward to a real power cut or blackout 😱

Next weekend is free and in May and June I'll take some days or weeks off ... everyday is weekend, that's what I'm really looking forward to. When I visited my niece last weekend her mother in law asked what day it is ... she's retired, of course 🤣

Hope you have had a great start into the week, my friend 🌞😊

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Good evening Hannes,

thankfully you felt better today, and I think that the good sleep helped a lot. Take care and look after your health my friend 🙏

Agreed and I can also not do without any meat 😉

Well then, I must also belong to generation X, as I had a ton of jobs 😜 !LOLZ

Yep, I always thought that some of the people up there must be not right in the head 🥴

I really hope that you will never have one, as it is really not a pleasant experience. Especially if after two or 3 days you have to throw all of the food in the fridge away 😲

Now this sounds very good to me, as you are due for a real break and some weeks away will be sure to restore your energy. Like I said, and just like that mother in law, once you are retired the names of the day will not bother you anymore. Even the time will not be an issue, and like me, you can throw your watch away 😊👍🤪😁😆🤗

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