Last Friday marked 3 months into our time living in South Africa.
We continue to have interesting animal experiences. The most recent was finding an injured juvenile wood owl lying in a heap by our sauna. Michael rescued it and I called a raptor centre in Stellenbosch to find out how we could try to help it. It could not lift its head and seemed extremely weak. Jeni and Hyme's son Nik helped me feed it. It survived overnight but it died the next morning. It had some kind of severe spinal injury and it simply could not survive. We were quite distressed but hope we made it more comfortable. Owls are amazing birds and we had naive hopes that we could save this wild creature.
We are still searching for a used car but have been fortunate that friends have loaned us vehicles thus far. We have found that even in the one year we have been away the general prices for goods has increased. We expect to figure it out by the end of the month so we have something to take friends around in when they arrive for visits.
On a more positive note, I can report that the chameleon continues to live on the lavender and tolerates my occasional visits.
1 comment:
wow, that owl is beautiful. i half expected your story to end something like this....the owl turned out to be an ancient wizard and burst into a flame like the phoenix. owls are one of my favorite creatures because they look so amazing and amazed with those huge eyes.
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