I made it to the final!
The month of April began full of promises; cooler weather after a scorching summer, and I was able to power up all of 150 HP.
RL can be so unfair at times, as I was forced to again dip into my nest egg that was building up so nicely!
Those who have been following my #hiveblopomo, know the reasons why, as much happened this month!
I will expand on that a lot more with my HivePUD tomorrow!
I shared a really wonderful road trip up to the city of gold, Johannesburg, as our son had a job interview, and we grabbed the opportunity to visit our older son! We had an awesome time together and visited the Prison Break Market that I was raving about and later shared Weaving the Local is Lekker ZA Trail.
Our son received a job offer, so it was Mission Accomplished! He has since found a really nice flat in a perfect location, the landlord gave him the keys so he could move in today, with Dad helping him settle, as a ton of his belongings were still here with us!
The benefits of being semi-retired, enables one or both of us to take a break and travel up to the kids. When we both go, it's always for pleasure, and when only one goes, it's always to lend a helping hand!
Then the tide changed!
Little did I know what was brewing on that fateful Monday 11 April, when I spoke of comfort food and gloomy Mondays and light-heartedly said:
If you don't hear from me again, please send out a search party on the Indian Ocean as I may just get washed out to sea along with the rest of the greater Durban, but please rescue me first!
Later that night all hell broke loose when our neighbours' granny cottage was literally bulldozed by a mudslide, and some two hours later, the home of our friends who live next door to our neighbours, was destroyed by a massive mudslide from a huge bank across the road; a terrifying experience for all of us Adrift in the Storm.
I will never forget the thunderous noise of that mudslide and the screams from our neighbours as we thought they were trapped or even worse, taken by the mudslides, as happened to over 400 people that night! Fortunately, they all made it out just in time!
The mudslide sliced through and destroyed the middle section of our friends' home, leaving a wide and deep crater between their home and our neighbours' home.
Many of my #hiveblopomo posts were about that event and the aftermath as that is all the whole of the Kwazulu Natal coastal region has been talking about; the cleaning up still continues before the damage can be assessed properly.
A bobcat machine has been going for four days already, clearing the mud around their home and dumping it in the other crater across the road where the second mudslide took place. That high embankment will have to be reinstated by the authorities very soon, but fortunately, we're going into our dry season.
The roof of our neighbours granny cottage can just be seen at the bottom left of the image behind the foliage, with some of the damage below and across the road visible.
This bobcat machine has been going backwards and forwards moving mud; it will be a long time before our friends' home will be rebuilt so they've found a home nearby to rent, as they do maths tuition and need space to set up a classroom again.
So...although it was really difficult at times to keep up with #hiveblopomo with all the dramas taking place, it has helped lighten the load on my mind and at least all these happy and sad memories are now stored on the blockchain forever!
A big bow and a thank you to
I'm going to end off my post as I've been doing all along and say it one last time...
This is day 30 of my #Hiveblopomo, an initiative of the awesome bizzy Queen Bee
Yes, this is the last day of April, so my story for this #hiveblopomo has come to an end!
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