Waiting for the sunrise.

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A beautiful and cold morning that waited for me instead.
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Now why did I use the word "instead" in the opening sentence?
Well when I saw the street lamp poles standing like sentinels waiting for the sun, I thought that it was going to be a great sunrise.
Lovely sun rays running down the mountain valleys and all such beauties.
But I had another think coming.

Look here at the angled bare branch, I wasn't the only one that was fooled, as even the two birds were waiting for the sun.
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Surely the sun would emerge at any moment and we all waited in anticipation
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Soon and I sang with the birds, "Come sun, come sun".
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Have you ever heard the saying; You make your plans and then life happens ?

But not to be, as look what the wind did, it blew the clouds over the face of the sun within minutes.
And then it was raining, just like that.
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So, as a consolation I have posted this Southern Double -collared Sunbird for you that I snapped yesterday.
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Oh yes, Mother nature likes to play her tricks on us and I had to laugh at myself as me and the birds had to scatter into our hiding places.
I especially got up early out of bed preparing to catch the new Spring sunrise on camera, but then life happened.
How often does this not happen to all of us in life?
Wr prepare for something with great expectations and then it turns out to be a damp squib.
That's why I have the fond saying of, "Such is life" and fortunately I have learned to laugh at myself.
I hope that you did too.

And That's All Friends.

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Camera: Canon Powershot SX60HS Bridge camera.

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The photo of the bird... it selects the place where it prefers... same colors!
How pretty!

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Oh yes and the trick is to find the place that the bird prefers for my camera.
They do blend in well with the tree's colors.

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That is the prettiest bird... its colors are pastel, hehehe 😍

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Thank you and yes, he is beautiful.

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Southern Double-collared Sunbird is now my favorite, although I haven't seem one in person, and I doubt that I'll see one anytime soon 😜

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Oh yeah mine too as he is the smallest of the Sunbirds, but reckoned as the best singer.
A lovely little fella and I got another one in a high tree on a farm today.
Look at this!
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Oh my goodness! It is really pretty!
Thank you very much, @apilloncharity!
I !LUV the bird photo!

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The Double collared Sunbird is sitting on a bottle brush tree right?
Hmm that gives me a clue, maybe I need to go looking for these trees early in the morning.
I am sure I won't find the Double collared Sunbird here but surely others of its kind.

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Oh yes and the birds love the Bottle Brush tree. (Callistemon citrinus).
Maybe Google to see if you have the tree over there.

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We have loads of them here. Almost every street has one except ours I guess.

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Oh! Wonderful and you can certainly go and look for some birds in them 😉

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Oh yes, I know such mornings or evenings very well, my friend, I make my plans and then life happens in form of a big cloud that covers all of the setting or rising sun.
But it is as you say, such is life, and if Mother Nature wants to play then I'll play with her 😉

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Hahaha, over here it's not the big cloud that bothers me as much as the sudden rain my friend.
Over here one moment in the sun and the next moment wet 🤣
Thec wind brings only one small darkish cloud over at speed and the cloud decides to cry real tears right on top of me. I think the cloud was frightened of the speed of the wind that blew it over 🤣

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Yeah, I don't like rain neither. I don't mind that wet stuff that falls from the sky when it's warm in summer, but like now when it's colder and often windy, I hate it when it rains.

The frightened cloud that peed herself or better said you 🤣

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Exactly my friend as we live in a winter rainfall area now and up north it is a summer rainfall area.
We arrived here in mid winter the first time and we lived in a cottage on a farm with a leaking roof and surrounded by mud. But now we are used to it and that water in the cold is always a pain.
The problem is that my bones are now old and they don't like the wet and the cold, so at night I cannot sleep well due to cramps.

Hahaha, yes, we both peed water 🤣

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Oh yes, the older the bones get the more they like the dry warmth. I also begin to feel that slowly and prefer to wear thick socks in winter.

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Hahaha, some surprises await you my friend as everything and I mean everything shrinks in the cold when you get old. The normal rugby games takes a back seat as all of one's attention is on how to ease the multitude of aching bones 🤣🤣🤣

My luck recently is such that if I win a competition the prize will be a comb for my hairless head 🤣

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Thank you for giving me such positive thoughts about aging my friend 🤣

But I can see it on my parents anyway, and especially my mom hates her age and the pain that's getting worse every day.

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Hahaha, I told you before that habits change as one ages my friend.
When it's very cold, the first thing that I do when I wake up in the mornings is that I feel around in the bed in case something fell off during the night 🤣🤣🤣

Shame yes, I feel for you mom, as I remember so well how my gran had to struggle with her pains.
A very sad situation and a person feels so helpless as there is nothing that one can do.

They call it the ravages of old age and it is very true.
We pray for all of you and that includes your parents.

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We all want to become old but no most of us can't stand the difficulties which come with the years ... the pain in the bones, the sight of the eyes and the ears don't hear as good anymore.

I would love to live hundred years and more, but I don't want to become old 😂

Haha, I can really imagine you sitting in bed looking if everything is still where it should be 🤣

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Oh yes, you are so right and not only the pain in the bones, the eyes and the ears, as one slowly changes from to toes up right to the top of the head.
Memory goes to the loo and strange new things start to grow on one like moss 🤣

You can say that again, but there is no escape and sooner or later the winter in our lives arrive. No more seasons and just one long winter.

Hahaha, it becomes a habit my habit my friend. So at first you feel if the important stuff is still there and then you sweep your hands over the sheets to feel around like a monkey seaching for fleas.
Touch the wife by accident in a sensitive spot and she slaps you wide awake 🤣🤣🤣

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Now you're scaring me mate 😅 lol

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Hahaha, I was only joking Hannes.
At least 50% of what I said is not true and unfortunately you will have to decipher the comment to see which parts of it fits into the 50% 🤣🤣🤣

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To late mate, I believed you to 100% and when I was searching for the most important part this morning I couldn't find it at first, until I realized that I have searched at the wrong person what woke my wife up 🤣

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Hahaha, I will not ask you what or where exactly you searched, because knowing your mind I think that I know exactly what you touched in your search 🤣🤣🤣

I just hope that she also didn't slap you 🤣

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Well, she loves her sleep and I feel sorry for anyone or anything that disturbs it - you may feel sorry for me 🤣🤣🤣

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Hahaha, I think as you grow older you will have to consider sleeping in seperate beds my friend.
It will save you with all of your feeling around in the bed in the mornings for maybe lost parts 🤣

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Haha, I don't think my wife would ever accept that because especially in winter it's much better to be together in bed 😎

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My head is also hairless ... I have shaved it yesterday 🤣

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Hahaha, so don't enter any competitions, as you don't need a comb 🤣

I wish the hair on my head would grow like the stubborn hair in my ears 🤣

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Haha, quite some years ago I have found the first hair growing in and on my ears - that moment I knew I am getting old 🤣

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So funny as the wife and I discussed the ear hair issue last night.
She always moans at me when I pluck the hairs out with my fingers.

I told her that I want to grow my ear hairs long, so I can tie them together at the top of my head to cover the bald spot 🤣

Not only that as my nose hairs tangle with my moustache making me sneeze often. So she said that I must cut my moustache off. Nope, I told her that I will rather have my nose removed 🤣

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Hahaha, I also use my fingers and often it's really not easy when they are still short but long enough to feel them. Maybe I should also let them just grow 😉

Shave it and you will see you will look 5 years younger - my son has shaved his little beard and now he looks like 14 again 🤣
I shave my beard sometimes every day and sometimes I let it grow for weeks. At the moment my beard is about 2 months old.

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Hahaha, and I don't suppose your wife moans when she sees you doing that ?
Please say no she doesn't moan so I can show Marian to stop moaning when I pull my hairs out 🤣

I cut my beard in summer with the machine set on number 1, so it only leaves a stubble, but during winter I don't shave at all, as my skin is too tough and it hurts when I shave in the cold.

2 months old? Soon you will have it long enough to trim it into a goat beard, which will be very suitable for you as a mountain goat 🤣🤣🤣

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No, my wife doesn't moan ... because I do it when she can't see it 🤣

My beard is too long and I don't like it anymore, but I said I will cut it when I've used up my vacation days from 2019. I still have 8 days from 2019 left and hopefully I'll be able to go on holidays in October.

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Hahaha, I do it any time when it irritates me 😉

Maybe in October the Covid rules will have been relaxed and then you can go to a beach somewhere where it's not cold 👍
8 days is a bit too long on holiday for me, as I become bored after the 5th day.

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Our rules have just become harder again - masks, masks, masks and more...

8 days bathing on a beach would be more than boring for me, but 8 days photographing on a beach would be great 😁

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It seems that the Delta version of the Covid virus has now also reached your country.
But if you are vaccinated then there will be no problem, as we have had the Delta here for the past weeks and it gets mostly unvaccinated people.

I hate a mask.

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None of my family is vaccinated yet - we have recovered and we haven't decided yet if we want the vaccine. We have made some tests this week and wait for the results which will hopefully say that we still don't need a vaccination. The later you get the vaccination the better tested they will be.

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Makes absolute sense to me, and the government will know when the deadline for vaccines will be, to be effective against the Covid. I think it works in weeks and in your case it will be either 2 or 3 weeks. Just check the timeframes.

We are both fully vaccinated with the Phizer vaccine as it is reckoned to be the best of all the vaccines. We had to go for one first, and a follow up second one 42 days later.
So now when the Covid touches us, it will not be so serious that we need to be hospitalized.

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My daughter's tests are already back and now her recovered status, which is just like as if she would have been vaccinated, was extended for another 3 months. I suppose it will be the same for the rest of us, but we will know that on Monday.

I do really hope that they are right and the vaccines will work against the virus and its mutations.

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We are glad about your daughter's status Hannes.
Please let me know what they said on Monday.
It seems that they know how to count the days as they did the same with the time period for our second Phizer injection. We were told to wait for 42 days.

So we did and now our vaccinations are complete. Important to note that we had no side effects from the vaccinations. Especially as I am high risk.

But I think that you know that we pray for all of you.

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Yes, I will tell you the results on Monday.
I have never been vaccinated against the flu and I have never had a bad flu. I know you haven't had any side effects, but I still don't trust these vaccines. They have been invented too fast and were not tested enough in my mind.
I trust in me and that I have never been really ill, except a little bit of mentally illness, but that doesn't count 🤣

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I think that we both belong to the mad club Hannes.

I took the vaccinations as they classified me as high risk, but also because as I said, we work with many people and I would not want to take the Covid to others.
You in turn are good and healthy and it sounds like you have a strong immune system so I leave you to decide for yourself.

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There's nothing wrong in being in this clud, my friend, and I love to be mad 😎

I also believe that you have done the right thing by getting vaccinated, because you have good reasons. I am in a position where I can avoid getting too close to other people, but as you said, I am healthy and I don't think I should be scared about the virus ... I take care though.

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I love your new post Hannes and it is a great one.

There might only be two of us in the mad club, but we have millions of unseen members that think they are all normal 🤣

There is a time for a season and a reason my friend and yes, you have made it safely thus far.
You also don't come in contact with others, which is the most important.
Good also that you take care my friend.

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Thank you very much Zac 🤗

Only the ones who know that they are mad can enjoy their madness 😎

One day when I think the vaccine has been tested enough I will certainly get it, and until then I will take care.

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My pleasure Hannes.

Hahaha, no the ones that are mad think that they are normal and that the normal people are mad 🤣

Well then you just take care until you are satisfied that they are safe.
Some people say that there are IT chips in the vaccines, so if I suddely start sounding like a Bot in my messages, please come and shoot me 🤣

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I know and that's often funny 😉

I don't believe in any of these conspiracy theories and just don't want to get vaccinated yet. My family can decide if and when they want to get vaccinated.

We have got our tests back today and my wife has got another three months recovered status. I haven't and now I think I should take even more care, but I avoid other people anyway. Also the doctor has done some blood tests and I am healthy as if I were a baby ... well, almost like a baby 😎

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Most of the conspirators have been proven false thus far, but some people are still in revolt against the vaccinations.

Glad to hear that your wife is okay and you sound delighted about the blood test results.
Did the doctor really call you a baby? 🤣
Cute I think, as baby mountain goays are always cuties.

Maybe I should start calling you cuty or cutie, whatever you prefer 🤣🤣🤣

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I would say more than most were only hoaxes and lies.

Yeah, we are okay and no, she didn't call me a baby, that was my own creation, so you can forget the cutie 🤣

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Good evening Hannes.

99.55% of those have not truth in them. People do it because they want to sound important.

Ah so, the doctor was a she? So now you have skipped over the nurses straight to the top 🤣
That makes it easier to believe that she called you baby and of course you will deny it as denial is the first thing that government employees do.

So I think that cutie the mountain goat can roll easy off my tongue 🤣

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Good evening Zac,

hahaha, she's my wife's and the kids doctor - I don't have a doctor and it was the first time a have been visiting a doctor in quite some years.
So I am are far away from being called "baby" by her and she isn't my preferred type of woman if you know what I mean, her assistant is quite cute though 😉

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Good evening Hannes,

She seems like a nice lady and at least she didn't give you a painful injection.
The baby factor can now be laid at rest as I believe you and I will stop teasing you 😉
But who knows, maybe the cute assistant will call you baby when she gets to know you better 🤣

So until then Shalom.

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Good evening Zac,

that's too kind of you - this lady doctor will not see me again, unless I feel ill 🤣

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Good evening Hannes,

I am a kind man I think 😉

So sad, as a distaby relationship with the assistant will not work 🤣
Thus you will stay a mountain goat 👍

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Good evening Zac,

yeah, I'm a stupid goat because all other goats would feel ill every day 😎

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Good evening Hannes,

No, the other goats are clever as then they can see the doctor's assistant every day 🤣

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Good evening Zac,

that sounds just like what I have said 🤣

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Good early evening Hannes and I don't think that the bed is calling you yet 😉

You forget that you and I are very similar and we can say the same things in different ways 😜
You have more brains than me, but I am handsome 🤣

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Good evening Zac,

I can't have more brains - I have only one which I rarely use to keep it fresh and clean 😁

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Good evening Hannes,

You are lucky to have a brain as the doctors can't find mine 🤣
Maybe it has passed through my body a long time ago and just a small piece remained. 🤣

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Good evening Zac,

So you have a well hidden brain, my friend, or it is only very small, just as you say, but in that case the most important cells have remained anyway 😁

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Good evening Hannes,

A weird day today as we were running around again and it was hot. We will see 33C still in this week, so summer has announced it's presence.

Maybe a piece of the brain about the size of a Sparrow's brain has remained methinks 🤣
I think it has about three cells. 1 for hungry, 1 for saying yes to everything and 1 for a bit of humor.
But the rest of it has said farewell a long time ago 🤣

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Good evening Zac,

and we're expecting the opposite weather: it's rainy and getting much colder from tomorrow on.

I think these are just the cells you need, the most important ones 😎

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Good evening Hannes,

Like I said before, it still feels weird that soon you will be in snow and I will be under the bright sun.
So as we get hotter you will get colder due to our polar opposites.
I think somehow it charges the planet like a battery with a positive and a negative connection 😉

Oh yes, I am happy with my 3 cells as it keeps life simple 🤣

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Good morning Zac,

I have been too tired yesterday evening and went to bed at eight. In a minute I will be heading to work with my wife as chauffeur - it's raining since yesterday morning 🌨️

Yep, the battery theory makes sense to me.

Have a great day my friend 🌞

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Good evening Hannes,

So what I will do if I had my wife as a chauffeur is that I will insist that she wears the formal attire of a chauffeur including the hat and I will sit in the back of the car waving at my friends as we pass them slowly 🤣🤣🤣

So the weatherman was right for a change 😜

Hope that you also had a good day thus far.

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Good evening Zac,

haha, yes, I can imagine that, and you could throw sweets for the kids 😂🍬

It is still raining here, I think I'll need my chaufeur tomorrow morning too. When today she told me it's time to go home I realized that it's already time, so much to do, but I'm one day closer to fredom :)))

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Good and wet evening Hannes,

Also raining here and I think that it is the last winter rain greeting.
They say that next week we will move into the 30"C
Things are going torrid here again with the loadshedding, that they now call loadreductions in an effort not to make it sound so bad. Tonight we are lucky as they are shutting us down from 12 midnight.

So I don't presume that you will follow my advice to get your driver a cap and a uniform 🤣
Best not to try your luck as she might just make you wear a uniform and then she will sit at the back to show the ladies at work how important she is 🤣🤣🤣

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Good and wet evening Zac 😁

the rain hasn't stopped here, but when I go to work tomorrow the sun will come out, says the weatherman. I don't mind, as long as the Sunday will be nice too.

No, because I want a happy driver and not an angry looking one I want to let her decide what to wear, because a happy driver drives safer 😉
... or she could have my uniform, I don't like it anyway and I hate to wear it outside of the office.

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Hi Hannes, it also rained here overnight and we had a wet early morning, but now the sky is clear and they say that it will be 26C tomorrow and Monday 29C.
I hope that your Sunday will have splendid weather.

Hahaha, you and I both know that she will tell you to go fly if you suggested that she should wear a uniform.🤣
You have to have tact when you deal with women Hannes and maybe you should tell her that you find women in uniforms extremely attractive. So maybe she will start wearing one and if not, then just make sure that your medical insurance is in order 🤣

Tact can solve many things, but it can also create headaches, especially if a woman goes wild with a frying pan or such 🤣

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Hi Zac,

we have had a very nice day, not very warm, but nice and I hope tomorrow will be like today. If I'm not too tired I want to search for some Autumn colors.

Hihi, she has worn my uniform once before, but it doesn't suit her - it's too tight in some places, if you know what I mean 🤣

My wife is working here since she was in her early twenties, so she is used to a "bad" or tact less language, but you are right, when she's near a frying pan you should take care what you say to her 😎

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And so I hope that you got your Autumn colors my friend. Glad about your weather and we are frying tomorrow at 30C.
We still have a few cold days and so it is difficult to adjust to the heat again.

Ouch, I don't think that I must comment on the tight things Hannes 🤣🤣🤣

So best you were your bike helmet and a cricket crotch protector whe you chrp her near a frying pan methinks. Just to protect the sensitive parts 🤣

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No, not really, I got some colors but not as much as I was hoping for. The Autumn needs another two weeks to paint all larches orange ;)

It had 2C in the morning and during the day the temperatures climbed up to 14C, I believe. In the mountains it has been a bit colder and windy.

Nope, no comment needed 🤣

Believe it or not, I have such a protector. I got it many years ago when I joined the police. I don't think she would be able to hit me when she sees it on me, because she would be lying on the ground laughing 🤣🤣🤣

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Yes I saw in the post that your colors are only starting an soon it will be a fairy land of colors and later snow.

Ah, the wind always helps the cold to get to one's bones, but at least 14C is better than -14C 🤣

I think that I understand what you mean as that protector thing must make a huge bulge inside one's pants. Maybe she will start crying and think that you are sick. Just stop her from phoning the ambulance, as you will have a difficult time explaining to the medics why you are wearing it 🤣🤣🤣

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Yep, soon the colors will be here and a little later it will all be white :)

Soon it will be minus 14 C - then I have to change my shorts to long pants 🤣

Haha, I have no reply to that 😎

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Snowhite's country methinks 🤣

Oh yes, I think that at -14C I would not even be able to think. Frozen thoughts and everything else would also be frozen. So I will have to take great care that some important member of my body doesn't break off like a frozen small tree branch 🤣
I presume that you guys don't wear electrical warmed underpants powered by batteries?

Nothing to say??? I am stunned as you are the most chirpy guy that I know 🤣🤣🤣

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It will be beautiful white - hopefully, and maybe I'll meet Snowhite in the forest ;)

There are such electrical warmed underpants and such, but we don't have them, although sometimes it would be cozy to have. But what if the battery gets empty at -20C? Then the branch will certainly break 🤣

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Ah, be aware my friend as you meet that lovely Snowhite lovely soft and white snow, you will be a hospital case. Why?
Well a dove will tell your wife and she will be standing behind you with her favorable weapon. a frying pan 🤣🤣🤣

No, no, no now you really putting me off visiting Austria as I love that little branch 🤣

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My wife loves warm and cozy places, so, whatever I do somewhere in cold and uncomfy places, I will be safe from her frying pan, believe me 🤣

So you have never woken up in the morning under an icy blanket like we did as kids when the fire died in the stove during the night? Icy temperatures inside the house and you had to scratch the ice from the window to see the weather outside ❄️ and the branches still didn't break 🤣

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Ah! Now I know why you run away to the cold places 🤣

Oh yes I did. Remember as a kid I had to sleep on the floor for a long time.
It was wooden floors and the cold in winter would creep up through the planks. Nothing like your cold, but still very cold. Some mornings I was also iced, but the branch was always safe 🤣🤣🤣

We didn't have a stove inside the house and the 4 girls, gran, mom and my 2 sisters slept in one bed, so I was banned from their bed 🙂

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Oh yes, I think I remember that you have already told me about that.
We have had one big bed and a small bed in our first sleeping room before we moved to ou rown rooms. There we have had one normal bed, where our oldest sister slept and a big bed, where my brother, my other sister and I slept together :)

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Cool and I think that this was what formed our charactes Hannes.
We both know tough times and we also know good times, so we can survive in both.
That is how it should be methinks.

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I think your times were tougher than mine ... they are still a lot tougher than mine, although I moan a lot more.

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And I think that you and I will have to swop.
You take my tough times and I will take your moaning over 😉
It sounds great to me 🤣🤣🤣

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My life would be too boring for you and all your moaning would be about how boring life can be 🤣

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Hahaha, one can do all kinds of things to avoid boredom my friend.

I worked for 5 years at a cigarette manufacturing company as a high speed machine technician.
2 weeks day shift and 2 weeks night shift. I was in charge of 4 machines and once that the operators started the machines after I had completed all of the start up tests, then my time was my own.

I could either go and sit to listen what the other technicians were talking about, or I could sleep, or do something.
So I decided to enlist in the fitting and turning department and they taught me how to use all of their machines.

Somehow I think that you know all of this, as maybe I told you before?

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Okay, you won once more Zac 😁 My life can be boring, even when I'm busy at work, but this job you've mentioned would have been deadly boring for an impatient guy like me.
I bet there was no internet back then 🤣LOL

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Yeah, impatience can certainly spoil many things my friend.
I watched some guys next to me when I used to go fishing. They baited their hooks, cast it into the water and 20 minutes later they reel the lines in, rebait and cast in again.
After an hour of doing this, they have nothing and then they pack up and go try somehere else with the same system.

I baited my 2 rods, rowed out into the river with my canoe and dropped the bait into the deep side of the water. Then I left those rods alone, at times for half a day until I got a bite. The big fish don't bite quickly, but when they bite, you can know that it's a big one.

So, yes impatience never works 🤣

Yes, we had no internet yet during those years.

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Don't talk to me about fishing - Lady Patience would never go fishing with me because if no fish would bite within a minute or so, I would go home. I wouldn't even try it on another place 🤣

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Hahaha, at least I can assure you of one thing, unless you can get drastically lucky you will never catch a fish in your lifetime 🤣

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Lol. It really did look like it was going to be a really beautiful day. But it is what it is I guess.
That is a really beautiful picture of the bird.

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Oh yes, I always say tht nature likes to pull tricks on us.
Thank you.

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