Things We Find Unusual

• Wakening to the rhythmic sound of a creaking windmill
• Washing our dishes by hand in cold water
• Our water comes from a cistern
• Our shower is not much more than a trickle
• Totally enclosed with 7 miles of 12 ft. high fence with a locked gate (To keep the wild game from escaping)
• Viewing springbok out our kitchen window
• A palm tree beside our front door, flowering aloe and cactus in our garden
• Five foot tall geraniums that form a hedge
• Our “yard” is carefully raked red dirt
• The “chairs” in my garden are really roadside kilometer markers (the prior owners work)
• The smoky aroma of our caretakers cooking dinner
• Slow internet service – may take 30 minutes to bring in a days e-mails
• I feel no need to wear make-up or shave – very liberating!
• It is a 2 hour drive to a major super market or department store
• No TV, radio, or stereo
• Hearing folks speak Afrikaans
• Drinking “Ceres” for breakfast (a wonderful natural fruit blend)
• Enjoying leg of lamb and the luscious, sweet taste of paw paw (a fruit)
• Our breakfast yogurt container reads - parmalat, vanielja, gegeurde laevet jogut
• Grocery bags cost 17 cents a piece
• Instead of “you guys” it’s “you chaps”
• Silence – no sound of traffic, no phones ringing (no cell phone service!)
• No planes flying overhead
• No appointments, schedules, or demands
• Isolation from the outside world
• Stars appear so close you think you can touch them
• The hypnotic sound of rain on the tin roof
• Every sunset demands a moment of silence

The list is endless!!!