Neil’s continuing to make good progress on processing images for me so I can keep posting for ya. 

Lessee…around the home front nothing much going on. Connie is continuing PT for her back spasm issues and is making progress according to the PT people. She still has to rest between washing hair and making the bed or between unloading the dishwasher and reloading it sometimes (and Neil helps with a lot of all of that anyway…well, except the washing hair thing because if he was in the shower with her it would take longer). 

They had date night of course…and Neil added a couple new biking routes, he’s trying to up his mileage a little so both of the new ones are 16 miles.

He also grilled a London Broil that was encrusted with coarse ground pepper…the old Pepper Steak from when he was growing up in LA (lower Alabama), not the pepper steak you get from a Chinese place with sauce and green peppers and onions. We like the Chinese version as well…but the southern style one is better because…steak…while the Chinese one usually has mystery meat beef.

We’ve had to close up the windows and turn on the A/C the past week or so…hot and humid. We still prefer them open but it’s getting to be summer in FL so ya gotta do what you gotta do. We do still check most mornings and if possible to open even for a couple of hours that helps get some fresh air and that’s a good thing.

Date night today will be…we think…Mexican. It’s also Cinco de Mayo on Sunday and the development is having a Mexican food truck on Sunday afternoon so we might stop by and get some more Mexican food on the way home from bingo at the lodge. 

Sorry about the missing images in the Interesting things found section last time…I’ve removed them now and will figger out what happened.

Ok, on to more Africa images. I have to tell you Neil says that going to Africa was a great thing…but it’s sort of a slog. You get up every morning before 0500 because you need to leave the camp before sunrise…golden hour which is the best light runs from sunrise to maybe 90 minutes later and then another before sunset around 1830 most days…for breakfast and then head off for the morning drive. You get back to camp (if at all) by about 1300 for lunch and then head out again about 1500 for the evening drive…returning sometime after sunset usually around 1900 because bad roads and miles from camp and even if it’s close as the lilac breasted roller flies it’s not necessarily close by where the roads go, then it’s dinner and you get back to the tent at 2030-2100…and you still need to charge batteries, offload memory cards, shower, and sleep before doing it all over again tomorrow. One day they were so far from camp that all of the participants refused to head back for lunch because they would have had less than an hour to eat before heading out again…so they saved the 2+ hours of driving and ate some snacks under an Acacia tree.

Crowned Lapwing.

Wattled Starling…at least the third different one I’ve posted a shot of I think…and none of them look anything like the others…weird.

This rock looks a lot like a tortoise raising its head…the technical term for seeing things in a shape is Pareidolia.

Lion waking from a nap…they do that a lot, they’re cats…and yawning.

Eland…the largest of the antelopes in Africa with some Thompson’s Gazelles nearby. Thompsons are smaller than the Grant’s Gazelle…and have a racing stripe down their side as well.

Mated Secretary Birds…they’re a ground feeding raptor.

Hartebeest.

Thompson’s Gazelle…they’re about 2-1/2 feet high to the shoulder and are generally a bit smaller than a doe whitetail deer…maybe 80 pounds.

Female Thompson’s.

Warthog.

Northern Anteater chat…sitting on top of a termite mound.

Lilac Breasted Roller.

Zebra and colt nursing…I guess because they’re prey for a lot of predators they have a lot of very short nursing periods…this one lasted maybe 20 seconds.

Leopard Tortoise.

Hooded Vulture.

Mixed herd of zebra and wildebeest with calves.

Interesting things found on the net.

This requires you to be a nerd…explanations for the non nerds at the end.

Shamelessly borrowed from a post on one of Neil’s forums…couldn’t find the actual source to credit though.

No explanation required.

And for the non nerds amongst ye…the first two letters of pig are pi which is 3.14…so pig with 3.14 is g which is the gravitational constant which is 9.8 meters per second squared.

Cyas.