The small things here.

Some photos from my files.
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This is a baby Dwarf Chameleon and they are only found in the Cape.

I cannot swim outside today with my camera, as we are totally rained in.

Not only are we under a Covid lockdown, but we also suffered some huge riot damages and now the coldfront has landed leading to more misery for many souls. But I digress, as I tried to bring you a selection of photos in order to show you the beauty of the small things in nature.
Come and have a look.

Two photos of a flying female Carpenter Bee.
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A big black Mason Wasp sat on this flower.
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This is a Cape Autumn Widow (Dira clytus)
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Here we have a Cape Skimmer dragonfly.
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And finally two lizards on our carport post.
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Like I said, it's raining and it will be the same tomorrow, so we can only surface on Wednesday afternoon. I hope that you won't mind looking at photos from my files during this period.
Life is what it is and we run it day by day in gratitude for whatever comes our way. The feeding project was stocked yesterday as our Mandela Day contribution and so there are no shortages.

And That's All Friends!

Photos by Zac Smith-All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon Powershot SX60HS Bridge camera.

We hope that you have enjoyed the pictures.

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My daughter just said she wants to have this little Chameleon - it's a lovely little guy or girl 😁


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Shame Hannes, I feel for her, yes they are cute, but no, I hope she never has one, as they were designed to live in the wild.
Saying that, I had one in the house when I was a child and it crawled all over the curtains eating flies. His name was Ben and one day my mom sprayed the flies with a can of poison. The next morning Ben was dead 😪

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Yeah, my friend, I know that these and all other animals belong to the wild, and my daughter knows that too, although she's a vegetarian and eats their food 🤣

We don't need poison to kill the flies - our cats hunt and eat them 😃


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Shame she is heartless to eat the little animals food Hannes.
Somebody should tell her to rather eat the animals, as then there are more food for the others 😜

Amazingly little Troy also eats flies and at night there are Ghekkos that have a feast here.

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I have told her that, but she says there's enough grass and it grows always anyway 🤣
She loved her steak almost rare.

When all the pets and other animals eat flies, there must be something good in such an insect. I think I'll try one one day and maybe then I'll fight with my cats for the flies 😁


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If everyone think like here you will see skinny cows and animals all over Austria my friend 🤣
There is a song called "Evil ways" 🤣

Better still, put up a fly trap and when you clean the trap, you can make fly soup. You can then share it with the cats 🤣

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I only hope that one day she will ask me to make a bloody steak for her 😉

My cats like their flies fresh and crispy, I don't think they will like a soup 😎


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Hahaha, she will take the expensive bloody steak home to feed her animals with it 🤣

Well in that case you will have to clean the fly trap and lay the flies on a board in the sun 🤣
Crispy and fresh.

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I don't think so, because she sometimes even tries to feed vegetables to the cats 🤣

That's exactly what I have found today in my riding jacket - a crispy dry fly. Unfortunately, I threw it away before I could think to feed the cats


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Oh shame, I just cannot imagine a cat running around with a carrot, or a potato in its mouth 🤣
It will cost a vans price to pay a psychiatrist for the cats 🤣

It seems that your cats are going to suffer over there my friend, your daughter might win in getting them to eat carrots and peas, as you throw their flies away and they will become desperate to eat anything 🤣

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Good evening Zac,

our old cat loved to eat bananas 🍌😁
Nope, the cats and food made of meat will win - they love it when I come home and feed them ... and it was only one single fly. Maybe I can still find it in the bin


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Maybe your old cat's grandfather was a monkey Hannes 🤣
I hope that by now you have cleaned the bin, found the fly and the cats are happy 🤣

It seems that your daughter will lose at converting the cats and all that she can do is to give your the finger 🤣

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Who knows, my friend, maybe the cat was a monkey in a former life 🤣

Yes, never forget the finger, one finger can tell more than hundred words 😎


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Former life? So you believe in former lives and no doubt that you think that you were a mountain goat in a former life 🤣
So the cat was a monkey and no doubt the monkey rode around on the back of a mountain goat.
How silly can you get 🤣

I will say nothing about the finger here 🤪

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Nono, please no finger, honestly, I don't believe that I was a mountain goat in a former life, I rather believe I was a stray cat, because I still feel that way sometimes in this life 🤣


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Hahaha, okay no finger mister ex cat 🤣

But saying this I think mountain goat suits you better, so I will stop calling you mr ex cat 🤣

We all feel like stray cats at times, but we know that we are not 😉

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Sometimes I wished I was a stray cat.
They can do whatever they want whenever they want. Okay, there's the food problem, but I know someone in South Africa who feeds all animals. Maybe he will feed a stray cat too if the cat promises to help him defending the baby birds and other small animals from the predators 😁


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Hahaha, believe me that we had 7 stray cats up north. We had all of the males neutered and they ate by us every day.
Soon you will also be free to follow your heart my friend, remember that to God a thousand years is like a day.

Hahaha, I have had a long life my friend and I have never seen a cat like that. He will most likely catch all of the small birds and try to eat me as well.

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You did what with the stray cats? I don't think I want to be a stray cat anymore 🤣

Well, then I should ask God to take me a few seconds into his future with him, and I can retire tomorrow 😉


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Hahaha, I wonder what put you off from your longing to be a stray cat 🤣

Only you will say that my friend. If God would take us into the future for a few seconds, I bet that we would return bleak and ashen faced. Best to leave the future to Him believe me. If 5 seconds is about 30 odd years, you had better hope for lesser seconds, such as maybe 7 years 🤣

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No reply to that, because only thinking of the reason hurts between the legs 🤣

7 years would be enough, even 5, because then I could go to the office on monday, write a short letter and pack my private things into a box and leave smiling from one ear to the other 😁


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Hahaha, human sterilization is also very sore my friend. ask me as I know. My ex was desperate to keep me and by now I would have had 20 children 🤣

Hahaha, an empty dream my friend and maybe you start dreaming about the ETH 20,000 as at least that is possible.

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Well, 20 kids would be lovely to have ... for a few minutes 🤣
Right, the ETH would either be possible, I believe that too 😁


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I would not last with so many kids around permanently Hannes,
Maybe I told you about the 150 orphan children that we took to a circus? Never again as they started to disappear all over the place and it took us an hour to search and find them all 🤣

So yes, we are agreed that ETH is the best option and we both have the gift of hope.

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Haha, even with three or four kids it's not easy at times. I can remember when ours were playing with friends and suddenly all were gone - into different directions 🤣


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Funny how life works isn't it?
I regard life in chapters, child chapter, teenage chapter, young adult, adult and old.
Child, many friends, teenager lesser friends, adult lesser friends and old very few friends 🤣
Always amazing to see how relationships change throught the chapters.
So yeah, you and your children are going through the same chapters methinks.

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Well, it was quite the opposite with me - I have now more friends than when I was a kid 😁


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In primary school I was always bullied as I was short and skinny. Then in high school I started to stretch and the bullies avoided me, as I was all of a sudden the tallest in the class. Since that time I have had only a few friends and it continues to this day. All of then good and genuine people as there is even a mountain goat included 🤣

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In primary school I was always bullied as I was short and skinny. Then in high school I started to stretch and the bullies avoided me, as I was all of a sudden the tallest in the class. Since that time I have had only a few friends and it continues to this day. All of then good and genuine people as there is even a mountain goat included 🤣

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