A Happy Wild Squirrel Day!

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What? A wild squirrel in our house? Oh yes, she knows where we keep the nuts and when the feed outside is finished, she comes to the source.

An open door and the patter of little feet spells trouble 🤣
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She jumped on Marian's back in the kitchen, but I was not there with the camera.
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Marian knew what she wanted and squirry has struck the payload.
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Carefully squirry inspected the goods to check for counterfeits.
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But this was not enough, as squirry demanded the personal touch.
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Two very happy ladies here, that disturbed my newspaper reading corner.
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And then it was time for squirry to leave, with a full stomach of course and two take away nuts.
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But it was not over, as a second visitor arrived. "Sally" the Egyptian Goose and when Sally arrives, "Harry", her husband is not too far away.
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Such is life, as everyone in the neighborhood, especially animals know that there is free and easy food here.
A worrying thing though is that we haven't seen squirry now for more than a month and although she disappeared for shorter time periods before, she has never been away this long.
Let's hope that soon we hear the music of little pattering feet again.

And That's All Friends.

I leave you with this below to think about!

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Hahaha, testing us?!! :D I did read it ALL.... :))
Hope squirry comes back soon! Such a friendly one...

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Hahaha, I remember the fun and the tricks we had on Tsu my friend.
Yes, we look out for her every day and there is always hope that she will return.
In the meantime we have one of her grandchildren coming closer, so let's see what happens.

Blessings and !BEER

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When the ladies are happy, the man's life is happy too 😉
Lovely photos and you can clearly see how much fun they have.

So you own her? I would either say she owns you 😂

Next week is going to be very busy at work and I don't think I will be able to do much on the Hive before the evenings.

Wish you a nice evening and a great week my friend 😊


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Hahaha, I think that you are right about the ownership issue Hannes.
But let's not tell her, else she might become pride filled 🤣

I see Ecency is putting these little albino emojis again, which might mean that my signal is flaking again.

We have complained and they booked some technicians to come and investigate, but they have not arrived and I think that they all know what the problem is, but don't want us to know. An insider told me that due to Covid many people are working from home and they are overloading the feed. So our feed is being choked, whatever that means.

If you reply at night I will still see it in the morning, maybe a good idea 😉
Shame that little winking guy looks a little bit pale, maybe it's the snow 🤣
At least you can see the laughing one's lipstick lol.

Read today that 1 in every 50 people here have the new Covid, that's in a population of 60 million. What makes you think that we are in trouble.

You all remain in our prayers my friend.

Cheers and thanks!

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A wife should never know that in reality she is the boss 🤣

It's the same here, at least our company's apps are working very slow because of the many home workers exceeding the bandwidth. But we have to live with that ... and it is paid working time 😉
The private internet works still quite fine and I would get mad if I was you.

Well, South Africa, we have a problem. Hopefully the new vaccine works and your country buys enough for the people.

Take care Zac and have a great week ahead 🌞


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A wife should never know that in reality she is the boss 🤣
See what you have done now?
Marian was pleading sheer innocence when I showed her this and since then she is doing all kinds of small nice things to me to show me that I am the boss.
So you must please repeat the statement more often 🤣

Yay, the emojis have a tan today look 😉😎😁🤣

The internet situation sucks Hannes!

Currently it seems that the government faces a court case from the private sector, as the government has placed a monopoly on the purchase and supply of vaccines.
Everyone is scared of corruption, so watch this space as there are many itchy fingers.

Hope that you will have a good week and also take care that side my friend!

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Haha, if my wife would read it she would behave completely the opposite way 🤣 lol

So, once more I have to say that the real bosses are the wifes 😁

I hope your government can sort it out, because corruption is one thing, but the health of the people is more important - less people would mean less money.
For us in Austria the vaccine is free, but I am not sure if I want it.


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Oh yeah, the wife's call the shots and I agree with you 😜

Let's hope that they don't try the corruption thing like they did with the masks as this time round everyone will be keeping an eye on the money.
I simply cannot understand why any government would like to have a corrupt reputation.
Everyone here is fighting for anything that they can get in any way and not only in the government.

I am on the high risk list unfortunately, so have no choice about the vaccine.

The doctor that I saw yesterday had Covid without even knowing that he had it. They tested him and his staff a few months ago and he tested positive. He told us that he had none of the symptoms and that he is clear now.

He only changed two of the 10 pills that I take to other brands and now he is investigating why my Iron levels stay low, as it normally takes 3 months to restore with the pills and I am now on 6 months and still low.

Cheers and thanks!

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So there's only a new name on the package? I hope that they don't have bad side effects at least.

I understand and of course you should get the vaccine. I hope for my parents too that they will get the vaccine soon.

I haven't been tested yet, but my wife has, and if she's negative I should be negative too I believe 😉


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Yeah, and can you believe that one of the tablets caused my ankles to swell.
Now I have to take water retention pills to get my ankles back to normal. It sucks!

Yes, your parents should indeed be vaccinated, as we cannot take chances with this virus.
I see that this new strain attacks all ages now and we have to keep the school children safe, so I don't think that they will open the schools for the first term. What a mess.

Yeah and we should also be tested, but we will get there sometime 😉

Cheers and thanks!

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You tell me more and more reasons to avoid tablets as long as I can - it sucks, just as you say.

I don't think that my daughter will go to school this year - she graduates this year and then she wants to have a year free before she goes back to school or better said to Univsity.

You take care too, my friend :)


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Sadly the time arrives that one cannot avoid the tablets in order to stay alive Hannes.
It seems that after the 60 year age arrives, the body slowly starts to wind itself down, as things start to happen from nowhere and new health surprises are many.

Yeah, I remember that she was going to take a gap year and in not going to school, she will be able to avoid the Covid dangers.
We must hope that by the time that she goes to university, that the Covid is gone.

Cheers and thanks!

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Yeah, I know Zac, but I still have a few years left till I'm 60 😁

Hm, I don't think that Covid will be gone, but I believe they have either found better ways to control it or we have just become so used of it that living that way is normal ... I don't know, that virus sucks..


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Good morning Hannes,

They say that this new Covid is 5 times worse that the first wave .
We have had a new record of deaths in the first week of January and we are running out of space to bury people. The hospitals are full and seriously sick people can't find beds, so they die.
Scary stuff going on here my friend.

You are right about the Covid duration, as they are already talking about 2014.

Then the weather doesn't help, as can you believe that Namibia, mostly desert and all dams empty since the 90s, now are having floods due to all of their dams overflowing.
Rain in Widhoek every day since September last year and they are hoping that it will clear by Sunday.

You know what I will say here!

Cheers and thanks!

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Good evening Zac,

our numbers don't change a lot neither and soon we will have to change from the ugly blue masks to the better FFP2 masks, but I don't believe that only wearing masks helps, as long as people don't care more than wearing them where they have to.
I hate the masks and avoid situations where I need it, but apart from my own office I have to wear it almost everywhere.

Anyway, I think we can be lucky to live here, because your story really scares me.

Wish you a great weekend and take care my friend 😊


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Good morning Hannes,

Ah yes, those bloody masks are aweful and we wear special ones with removable filters that we replace every second day. I have claustrophobia so you can imagine how much I hate a mask, but we wear them whenever we leave the house.
Marian used to spray our masks with disinfectant, but it hurt my throat during breathing, so now she just washes them.
This is what our masks look like. Marian looks like some Viking queen!
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Yes, you are lucky as things are very bad here with this second wave of the new variant. It has already doubled the death figures of the first wave and is still growing stronger.

Cheers and thanks!

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Good afternoon Zac,

I have also got black masks with changeable filters. They don't look as medical as the others, but although they look better I only wear them if I have to. You know I avoid people anyway 😉
I love to smell disinfectant, but I think spraying the mask would be too much for me too, although the idea isn't bad 😁

Yeah, the Viking queen look is a good comparison.

The sun is shining here and today is quite warm - it has about +2 C 😅

I hope your weekend starts well, my friend 😊


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Good morning Hannes,

Yay, we have emerged from the powercut this morning and life goes on until the next one at 8 tonight.

Yeah, black masks do look beter that the medical ones. They make ones here with the big 5 prints on them and it's silly to see an old lady walking around with lion's print on her face 🤣

If your throat will not get irritated by breating disinfectant, then you should give the spray of your mask a try.

You know women my friend and I said that Viking thing more to appease her to allow me to take a photo of her with her mask on 🤣

+2C is totally winter here my friend, but of course it sounds much better at your end.
Please wear a hat and put some sunscreen on when you go outside 😜

Cheers and thanks!

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I don't like such printed masks neither - a nice ornament or so is okay, but no faces or animals... although next week I'll get a mask with small skulls on it 😉

I am sure that my throat wouldn't like it if I breathe only disinfected air, but a smell from time to time is something I love 😁

I saw a girl with a mask at a fashion show a few weeks before the pandemic began. When I saw it I thought it looked good and the word viking came into my mind. That's why I agreed - I thought the same a year ago :)

Today we have beautiful sunshine and -4 C at the moment - it's freezing, my friend and a hat is certainly on my head ❄️

Hope you have a nice Sunday Zac 😊


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Hahaha, I can imagine you with a skull mask on your dial 🤣
We are having our first powercut today from 12 noon to 2.30pm and we don't have the time yet for tonight's one.

Did I tell you that Marian wants to faint when she smells in the hospitals 🤣
The doctor injected my left knee live and Marian fainted 🤣

Oh yeah, that word "Viking" has appeared in my mind since childhood and a while ago my daughter got us to watch a viking series with a guy called "Ragnar" as the lead actor. It was brilliant, but now we don't have a TV anymore and so, no more viking movies 😜

So you had the thought about a viking girl a year before me 🤣

I see that it must be snowing on ecency, as the emojies are all white today 😎

There is a song; "You can leave your hat on" by Joe Cocker that reminds me about your situation 😉

Cheers and thanks!

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There are only little white skulls printed on the fabric - there are masks which really look like skulls, but in that case I would prefer the lions ;)

I don't like hospitals neither, but as said, I like to smell them :)

I know this tv series and I loved to watch it.

Oh yes, it was quite cold again and the temperatures stayed below zero the whole day long. A hat and gloves are importand to have in the Wintertime :)


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Hahaha, I think that you will look good in a mask with little hearts on it!
Yeah, it's indeed a very clean smell inside the hospitals.

That was a great Viking series, but we missed many episodes and also didn't see the end.
Also didn't watch all of the "Lord of the rings" and another series with the woman and the dragons. I forget the name of it.
So I think you can see why we stopped watching TV.

Amazing that a hat is essential in both winter and summer. One wonders why the Lord did not design our heads in an upside down triangle with a natural hat at the top 🤣
We would all look like human praying mantids.

Cheers and thanks!

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Woman and dragons - Game of Thrones - I love all of the series you named :)
I don't watch a lot TV - YouTube is my preferred thing and there I watch the channels of some great photographers most ... and cat videos together with our kittens :)))


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Yeah, Game of Thrones and we seem to watch the same things 😉
We cannot watch YouTube, as it eats data over here and I can only pop in for brief visits.
So, you buy a pack of Sardines for snacks when you and the cats watch YouTube 🤣

Cheers and thanks!

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Haha, I don't need no snacks and the cats are not allowed to eat in bed ;)
For me it's enough to watch the kitten watch the birds and other critters on the screen - that's so much fun 🤣


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Oh , you watch TV in bed? I thought that was for old people???🤣
Yeah, it might be a bit of a mess if you buy sardines for you and the cats as snacks.

Seriously though, it must be great to watch the cats when they see the critters on TV 😁

Cheers and thanks!

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It's always a big laugh to see them in front of the screen 🤣

My wife watches in the living room where our main TV is what she likes, and I use the smaller TV in our bedroom to fall asleep faster 😉


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Their reactions at times must be hilarious 🤣
Sounds like an excellent solution, as the you guys don't fight about the things that you want to watch 😉

I hope your Friday is good thus far my friend.

Cheers and thanks!

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We are used of it and I prefer to sleep early anyway 😉

My Friday is still quite busy, but soon I will shut down the computer. Don't know if I'll turn my own computer on at home though.


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So funny how we get used to the antics of animals Hannes.
The first few times that we see it is hilarious, but then the sights start to wear off.
Life works in funny ways my friend.

Enjoy your weekend!

Cheers and thanks!

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😁
I wish you a wonderful weekend too, Zac 😊


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Sorry, out of BEER, please retry later...

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It must been sooo cool to have a squirrel up to that close! I would like to have that welfare near where I live.

the woman in the photos is also my own

Hahaha this make me laugh so much

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Oh yeah thanks and we have many squirrels here.
If you don't have the welfare, then start the welfare my friend.
Yeah "the woman is also my own" was done to get a smile.

Cheers and have a !BEER

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the woman in the photos is also my own, hahaha what a laugh, how funny it sounded, also your wife is very beautiful. She looks so cute Squirry I've never seen a squirrel in person. "Squirry carefully inspected the merchandise for counterfeits" Hahaha that's fun. Greetings friend, blessings for you and your family.

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Greetings also to you my friend and I think that you have noticed that I like humor in my posts.
This suffering world is under severe strain and getting people to smile lifts the load a little bit.
Pity that you have never seen a squirrel, as they are much fun.
I am glad that you had some fun in the post.

Your blessings are reciprocated and have some !WINE

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Fortunately not too many squirrels around or you would be having a home invasion, let's hope she is only visiting for food but enjoying the company too!

Another "Family Meeting" tonight Stephen, let us hope not bad news... Really not sure how much more this country can take when it is straining to sustain the people.

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