Wisdom Teeth Woes

Jessica has had her wisdom teeth removed this morning...First off,let me just tell you that a healthy nineteen yo girl does not take to the "no food or drink from 10pm to 10am" thing easily...it really is said easier than done! Yesterday we went for her check up with the doctor who was to "put her under" and my,was that a mission to find his office..who would have thought that our little hometown now has so many doctors and such a huge hospital!! I was happily driving over some islands in the road and had tons of fun doing so until my daughter calmly told me I was supposed to drive around them...who would have thunk..? Then I had to fill in some  questionnaire that asked whether she had some heart disease and  I wrote "madly in love" and she was not very impressed with me when the doctor told her there was just no medicine for that disease just yet...! He gave her a pill to drink as we left home for the op and a few minutes later she told me in a little girl voice that the pill was making her feel sleepy..she had trouble pronouncing her "R's" and "S's" and I was giggling all the way to the dentist's. When she had to get out of the car my athletic young girl was stepping high like a show horse and saying some incorrigible things that  had me giggling even more...Then she sat down in the dentist chair and they couldn't find a vein on her arm...then I left to go and buy her prescription medicine...30 min later I got back and she was already coming to and asking why it had all happened so quickly? Poor child mine..Then the doctor gave her this:

Inside the tooth mouse container...

This is where you don't scroll down unless you would like to see what Jessica's bloody,freshly extracted,wisdom teeth looks like....

..Sorry,but now we can all have closure on this subject...

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Trompie Learns To Wear A Harness

Jess and I decided it would be a good idea to teach Trompie to wear a harness for when he has to visit the vet. It is not the intention that he should be like a dog on a leash,just a way of constraining him when necessary while he is still small enough to be handled...a fully grown 90kg male warthog is Not going to be led about when he doesn't want to...and no-one I know is going to try to do so...! So..while we can imprint some things on him we are going to do just that.....

The first time he got to wear the harness he:

Tried to rub it off....

Tried to crawl out of it...

Begged on his knees to get us to take it off..

Tried to run clear out of it...

Tried to intimidate the camera man (Lady) with mane and tail wildly erect, and force her into taking it off!

And finally,in a tiff...,accepted it...

He now wears his harness for half an hour each day and has grown accustomed to it and never tries to get it off anymore....

Tarien and Jess even goes for short walks on a leash with him every other day and he is quite happy to be led around and has caught on as to what is expected of him when he is put on a leash....

"What???"Do you want me to go walkies again?"

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An Afternoon On The Lake

We went fishing on the Fanie Botha dam (lake) yesterday afternoon. It turned out to be one of those truly amazing,exciting,fun filled outings when you least expect it to be...not least because we took Minki for her first ever ride on a boat! At first I was a bit weary of taking her out because there are hippos and crocs and it is a HUGE, DEEP lake! Cules and I discussed it and we decided that seeing as it was Saturday there would be such a lot of commotion on the waters that the nasties would be hiding away in the furthest corners of the lake and that on arriving there we could first ask about sightings before we let  our feisty baby loose on the waters! How right he turned out to be! (About the late afternoon activities on the Lake!)

I took a zillion pictures so please forgive me for posting quite a lot of pics!

Are you ready to go on your first boat ride Minki??

 

Duh!!

Right from the start there was lots of activity happening as we approached Jetty 3 to launch our little boat.

Churning waters and splashing  waves had me thinking that it was almost like having arrived at the sea!

As we were launching,these kiddies being towed on a tube came by at a moderate speed...

It was a different story with a load of teenagers a little while later..they had to hang on for dear life and were being tossed all over the place!

I didn't capture any pics of that, as I had to hold onto Minki who was trying to jump overboard to go and join in the fun and holding onto the boat for dear life as their waves just about capsized our boat!

This guy on his jet ski was doing some pretty impressive moves to say the least!

There where quite a few of those on the lake...

Then we saw this...

It was a jaw-dropping moment for Minki and I as neither of us have ever seen these para glider thingies...

It really was a wow moment....

Coming in to land.....

This is the moment where I would go ass over heels....

If that was me ...

He made a perfect landing and it looked so easy...

His crew was with him and hurrying to get the canopy out the water in no time before the wind could blow it over the guy in the water.

You could see these guys knew exactly what they were doing and had been doing this for a long time..

We passed a very grand housing complex where a lot of the houses have their very own jetty....

Ponies grazing in their yard...

The life!

Lawns running onto the edge of the lake,your own jetty..

We then made our way over to the twin bridges to find a quiet fishing spot...

Passing under them...

By then Minki had found her favourite place on the boat...

She was trying to spin her head around 360 degrees like an owl..

Trying to take in everything going on around her...

Another jet ski comes whizzing by..

I bet she was wishing to go for a ride on that thing!

Maybe next time when we have a life jacket for you Minki!!

Going back past the smart housing complex ,Cules saw people he knows making their way down to the shore to launch their boat and we landed for a bit of natter and a beer...

Minki took a dip in the water...

I dared them for a dice to the other side of the lake and they said they will give us a day head start....

These engines looked huge to me until I saw the other boat's engine..

The engine is almost bigger than the boat!!

Launching their boats from their back garden...

They were going catfish fishing and would be sleeping on their boats for the night..

Cules got his beer...

Passing another complex on our way back..

These people had no fear of crocs!

The later it got the busier it was on the shores.

Jetty 3 where we always launch 

Still people where coming in for a quick spin on the waters

It looked like the fishing really got going at this late hour too...

We decided we were thirsty again so stopped over at the clubhouse for a cocktail before going on a last spin to the other side of the lake..

This guy caught a decent sized "kurper" We have many of those in the ponds on our farm but rarely bigger than the length of my hand,so this was a giant!

This little girl was absolutely smitten with Minki...

Off course we got a little engine trouble when we were on the far side of the lake with no one around and it getting dark quickly and we had no screwdriver on board...McGyver broke the point of this knife and voila we had a screwdriver and got going again in no time!

The most stunning sunset over the lake!

Loading up and getting ready to go home after another fun day out!

The first time I saw how a jet ski is loaded...so easy!

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