Weekend 2 - 3 May

This weekend we celebrated MIL Pam's birthday with Sunday dinner. She hasn't been here since Easter; we're also going on a short holiday in Zululand until the middle of May. So we'll be away for MIL's actual birthday which is 11th May. 

Great- Grandmother, Bammie, with Rina holding Liam

Joel and Bammie sharing a special moment

Liam has started to gurgle and crow, but here Rina couldn't get him to play for the camera! 

During the past month, Grant has prepared the wall in our garden to accommodate Rina's husband, Dick's ashes. She had a plaque made at our manufacturing jewelers in Bloemfontein. Last Monday Grant finally inserted the casket, sealed up the hole and added the plaque. All the while, John the gardener watched him with great interest. Grant told him it was Rina's husband who had passed on in 2013. 

The next day, he started to plan and make a garden underneath the plaque. 

Rina helps Pam along the pathway that John created

Pam tries to take a closer look at the plaque (her eyes are very bad) 

The beautiful garden John created under Dick's plaque

A closer look at the plaque. Note the photographer reflected ! 

After we'd had our bedroom carpets lifted and replaced with laminated flooring and the white walls painted steel blue, I asked Grant to create a corner shelf for my cat ornaments. 

Ambrose was very inquisitive and climbed onto the bottom shelf

The cat ornament shelf! 

As this post is aired, Rina and I will be at the ophthalmologist with MIL Pam. She needs to have cataracts removed and we're hoping the eye-doctor will be able to make her an appointment soon. 

Happy Monday to you all!