Braaivleis and Swimming in the dam

Surf's UP! We had a braaivleis this afternoon and the kids enjoyed the dam.

Office power supply in progress

The power supply to the office is almost finished. We will also start to plant some lawn in front of the office.

Designing the GreyWater system

Early this morning we start to dig the trenches for the GreyWater system.
A Fat trap will provide'clear' water to the dispenser . I plan to plant some veggies on top of the area around the dispenser.

Cooling down

Temperatures are up again in the late 30's and Sawah and family enjoy the waterhole..

Building a new road

Johannes1. and Johannes2. are cutting a road southwards, from the dam. At this stage, 1.5km has been cleared. There is also a solitary Duiker antelope living next to the road.

More on the office...

Slowly but surely the office is taking shape. To be able to incorporate big windows, serious mods need to be done to the existing structure.

Painting the house green...

In this part of the world , when it comes down to painting a house , you choose the color that is in stock at the local hardware shop...forget about color schemes in books. :)

the dice fell on a light green color [looks SUPER green in the pictures, but is in fact quite soft..]

Bikers invade Kraalkop

For the last couple of days we have friends from SA , who visited us on their motorbike safari. We met them at Rundu and accompany then to Tsumeb. Due to some serious bad luck Alex, Petri and Tiens were forced to divert to Tsumeb , where Alex received medical attention.

Braaivleis day at Kraalkop

We drove out early today, to give our landlords an update on our project. At 14h00 some baboon pitched up at the waterhole. Hours later we also noticed 2 Dik Diks.

Finishing the steelwork on the OFFICE

Stoffel, a local handyman, with his self made crane helped us today to lift the heavy steel A-frames into position. Two hours later all 5 A-frames were firmly bolted onto the steel frames underneath. Finally the office is also almost finished.