Well, there's no sitting outside today. Grey  skies, wind gusts, rain, squalls and colder than last week. After quite a few days of glorious weather, the rain and wind are also welcomed. Totally different mood. We made the best of the warm days and went off to Kalk Bay for fish and chips, Noordhoek for coffee and scones and Constantia for breakfast. We love eating out even though we keep things simple and share most of our meals. It works out well as we find we cannot eat as much as we used to. (But I still don't lose weight, ugh!)

We really live in an incredibly beautiful place. To be able to wake up in the morning with a whole day ahead where we have the freedom to do what we like with an array of choices, each one being more beautiful than the next, is something we are continuously grateful for. 

So, chicken soup is made (I know...boring, chicken soup...again!), it's hot and ready (not quite like me)! We will have it later with lovely bread that is delivered to us twice a week from a neighbor who is a baker from home. It gets delivered hot and scrumptious. Dunked in soup, it's utterly marvelous.

Sweet husband is doing his martial arts learning/training and I can hear some heavy breathing coming from the kitchen, which is where he practices! Sometimes it sounds like he is bringing up a fur ball!

After I've posted this I will do a bit of yoga stretching moving ever so slowly (everything hurts) and feeling more and more like an old sloth! Certainly as slow as one.

Load shedding has been particularly annoying this last week but it gets us off the laptop and TV and gets us watching the sunsets and how the light changes, the bats swooping for insects, the birds finding their nightly spot in the trees and when it's too dark to see, we go inside and light candles and watch how their flickering lights transform everything familiar to something between magical and a bit spooky. Tonight we will be in bed when load shedding begins, with our books and our headlights. Strange world. 

Woke up this morning with this question. Why is our survival instinct so strong? Yes, yes, I know, to preserve the species, but...why? Thought long and hard about it and didn't come up with any great answers - Google didn't know either! I have so many questions that Google can't answer. It's disheartening!