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Monday, January 27, 2014

Pictures Again

Here it is, the famous, the only, the familiar, yes, The Look:






















 The Food Conspiracy Lives! People save money together all year, and at Christmas time they buy bulk and divide up what they buy...


















Including chicken. Make that chickens. Live. Chickens to go.






















Remember the pictures of the church roof in the trees? The wooden church was leveled, so they will rebuild with cement blocks. Sunday morning found these young me down by the riverside, making those blocks.
















 Lots and lots of those blocks.

 Not all of the work is hard... Nomile, Beke and I were washing my blanket, holding onto each other because the blanket made wobbly footing. And laughing a lot, too.

The hike on Boxing Day was so incredible! We were near Piggs Peak, looking into South Africa. We crossed this river on the hike up the mountain. There's a place near my homestead that has muddier water but similar rock formations. Gorgeous. Soda speak.





















We hiked up to the top of this ridge


 

Then continued up this outcropping, doing pick your nose trail finding.(For those non-rafters, it means you can never just follow someone, you must pick your own route, or you'll find yourself in trouble. Based on, you can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose. Sorry!)





Rewards at the top:
 


















Forest edge, Swazi style!














1 comment:

  1. Gorgeous photos, Michele. It looks like the hike was absolutely amazing! I also loved the picture of blanket washing. You look good, healthy, and happy in it.

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