The air is almost cool, the grass is golden and the land is drying out....Fire Time! yup, people are starting to burn off all over the place the air is thick with it. The sad thing for my asthma is that this 'season' will continue right up to the first rains- probably early November. The good news is, particles in the air make for wicked sunsets. The Big Guy was showing off this evening. Here's a few pics from my day.


A beautiful, peaceful, idylic scene that could almost be fog in a secluded part of the country side?!


Until a massively overloaded truck goes by with the guys clinging to the edges yelling good morning at you and a friends husband riding by on his bicycle (returning from his second wife's home) stops to greet you, and you take a deep breath and almost choke on the air! :)

We had Farmer Trainings today at the Demonstration Farm- the first of 5 over the next 2 weeks. Thankfully I wasn't doing the trainings- just picking people up, sorting out logistics, making sure it all runs smoothly, then dropping people home and preparing to do it all again tomorrow. One of the more challenging jobs was getting enough clean water to the farm for the ladies to prepare food for 40 people (under a mango tree of course). We decided to use the car to save them walking a kilometer each way to the pump.

I drove under 5km/hr. but thanks to bicycletrack/road only about 50% of the water made it.
We've got a well under construction at the farm- but the guy is digging it by hand and he's hit solid rock, so we'll see what happens.


On the way home, the sun was a Bali style hot pink globe in the sky, so I hit the curb to try and capture the shot and was asked by 2 young ladies to take their photograph as well. My pleasure.