the pain and effort we had an awesome MX National! There were still some ponds remaining from the previous weeks deluge! Getting that hole shot! Like ducks is a row! Spectators! Wow the biggest turnout ever! 7th Heaven! The jump that seems so terrifying but loved by all that have mastered it! Pit lane! A view from the Marathon Mountain! A very fine day after all! This was the morning after the day before, hard to imagine how busy it had been, then the front end loader arrived and the post race fix up was done, this was the first time we have done this and the track should stay in this condition for at least 3 months now, I hope all the locals appreciate Anton's effort as well. Anton doing his thing! If I ever win the Lotto I will buy him a tractor! Cornering at speed! Well done to Anton and all the other members that did their part in making this 20th anniversary BORC National a great success! "No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it." H.E. Luccock
Sadly little Misha was hit by a car today and died in L's arms. Not how we planned the day at all. We will miss her terribly. "Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened. " (Anatole France) "No heaven will not ever Heaven be. Unless my cats are there to welcome me." (Anonymous) .
what with all the rain since Monday night I was starting to think we would be having a replay of 1988 when we had major flooding here in the Free State... turns out that there has been some flooding plus the fact that most harvesting has come to a slushy stop! Here are twogalleries of flood pics on the local newspaper site and the story of one flooded farmer. I must say that I was following the storm on Oom Koos's site and he has some pics too! The satellite images were quite dramatic! Today it shows most of the system out over the Indian Ocean. Amazing what tools we have today but still we are impotent at the power of nature, all we can doe is trust in God. "The hurricane flooded me out of a lot of memorabilia, but it can't flood out the memories." Tom Dempsey
I have the sniffles... but not in such a degree to stay in bed or see the doc... hope it wears out soon. This made me laugh though!
"The patient went to his doctor because he had flu, and the doctor wrote out a prescription for him in his usual illegible writing. The patient put it in his pocket, but forgot to get the tablets from the pharmacy. Every morning, for two years, he showed it to the conductor as a railroad pass. Twice, it got him into the movies, once into the soccer stadium, and once into the symphony. He got a raise at work by showing it as a note from his boss. One day he mislaid it. His daughter picked it up, played it on the piano and won a scholarship to the conservatory of music". found it at 24Health.
Having two cats making a ruckus in the early hours of the morning does not help either. Misha is on a mission to see how may times she can incarcerate herself in the shower, first she jumps on the towel rail over the bath, dislodging all the towels I might add... this is just what Myoo likes... towels in the bath to pee on! So when I did wake up this morning not only did I have to shush them up but I had to toss wet pee towels out in the laundry room outside! But they are still adorable. Misha doing her high wire act...
The other pic is MD's kitty Liefie trying out Shrek's seat... They make a handsome pair! She got her name because she is the most gentle cat I have ever encountered, hardly ever uses her claws when she plays... until a bird shows up... then the sleeping tiger awakes and no one dare try and get the hapless bird away, not if you value your skin that is. So let me get another shot of aspirin while I leave you with this... “One of the minor pleasures in life is to be slightly ill.” Harold Nicholson
The music on the video side tracked me to Veigar's site, some of the music is just stunning and to the producer Jon Gustafsson'sblog where this video called "Lífsbókin" blew my socks off...
Of course I had to find out what "Lífsbókin" means and that got me googled to the amazing idea of the Gideons at Lifebook Movement... Go there and download your own copy of this book/bible written as an outreach to kids of today, you may just be amazed to learn something new! This "trip" across the internet also showed me something else as well that is so true of my life and many other Christians lives. I have experienced many amazing things, gone through many trails and survived because in the end I have come to depend on The Life Book that God provided for us. Thank you Father for putting things in place for us to be able to get to know you through the Bible, translated and printed in virtually every language known, this to me is another proof that you want everyone saved. Thank you God that we can enjoy the world we live in as well and gaze in awe at your works. By the way, here are the lyrics in Icelandic, when I get the english I will add them too. Lífsbókin by BERGþóRA ÁRNADóTTIR Ljúktu nú upp lífsbókinni lokaðu ekki sálina inni. Leyfðu henni í ljóði og myndum, leika ofar hæstu tindum. Svipta burtu svikahulu. Syngja aftur gamla þulu líta bæði ljós og skugga, langa til að bæta og hugga. Breyta þeim sem böli valda breyta stríði margra alda. Breyta þeim sem lygin lamar, leiða vit og krafta framar. Gull og metorð gagna ekki gangir þú með sálarhlekki. Found two more renditions of the song, I love the Icelandic Airforce Choir version too..
and this one by Ragnheiður Gröndal...
Blogging is also a form of Lifebook like a diary come to think of it... "God will one day hold us each accountable for all the things He created for us to enjoy, but we refused to do so."Rabbanic Saying
This guy had issues with his car yesterday... unfortunately he left it jacked up near the taxi rank on campus... this morning it was sans wheels! Amazingly this happened in a location that has high def CCTV surveillance... although I doubt the perps will be found... "The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, HE was a genius." Sid Ceasar
The last two weekends we have been busy trackside prepping for next month's National on the 18th. Out with the old sieve tanks! and boy were they vrot! While building the last jump we had a small shower with the most amazing rainbow, the Tramtrade Rainbow jump! This jump is also a tunnel to reach our inside spectator area, or a fall out bunker! All in all the track is looking spiffy and with the late rains we may just get away with less watering than usual. "A motocross race isn't just any race.. It's a life style event"
Hope their maths skills are better than their spelling skills... or was it the sign writer's error? This brings me to a though I have been mulling over for months now... call it a pipe dream if you will but I do think it needs consideration in our country. What if we could challenge the Government to cut back in luxury spending plus make a 33% cut in salaries of all politicians, the money thus saved must then go into getting all schools up to world class standard. The high school in Seymour in the Eastern Cape must then be brought up to par with those in Santon! It is shocking to see the state of some rural schools when one thinks that since 1994 the government has had the funds to right the situation, it is criminal that some children still go to school under trees. To blame Apartheid is utter lies... keeping the people uneducated so as to make them reliant on hand outs thus twisting their arm to keep voting your particular party in power at each election is a crime against humanity. "A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated." Horace Mann
This is what I found when I walked in after work... Misha the Trapeze Artist busy taking down the laundry! She is L's kitten that was raised from barely eyes open stage... abandoned by her mother we think, but even though she is small for 6 months old she is one bundle of energy... By the way... this is a cat that 2 days ago had to go to the vet for two wounds in her side... not sure what happened but we suspect it was either from clambering somehere impossible or getting roughhoused by Myoo accidentally... she may be small but is not afraid to have very rough wrestling matches with the other cats. By the way... most of the clutter on the floor is some form of Misha plaything... Must say I am surprised at how well she is taking the antibiotics though... the other 3 are impossible to give any form of pill... last time I tried I almost ended up in ICU like this fella!
"A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime." -Mark Twain Notebook, 1895
