Bit late (one of our freezers died and we needed to save its contents), but Irene, Strut, Spring, and I will be gone for several days in a lodge on the Pacific coast, without any connectivity.
Strut's minor surgery's over. Abscess on his lower jaw opened up and cleaned out. He's out of sedation without issues. We'll take him home in a short while. He'll be high as a kite on pain killers...
Irene and I went on an overnight trip to the Aquila Private Game Reserve, where we saw hippopotamuses, elephants, springbok, white rhinoceroses, blue wildebeests, black rhinoceroses, blue...
Irene feeding a male ostrich that has been in the family for over 25 years, having been acquired by Francois, the owner of the fabulous Eikehof Wines in Franschhoek, as a chick.