Even though I volunteered to help Gary in the morning on the farm I still got a longer lie in than most days in the past month. My only instructions were to meet Gary and Mike at the house before 7:30 to take some pigs to slaughter. We got the truck in position that we would load the pigs onto and then we herded the correct pigs out of the pens in order to load them into the ruck. We took 25 pigs out and the had a little bit of difficulty rounding them back up. Eventually all 7 of us and the 4 dogs managed to get the pigs onto the truck and we headed into town. We dropped the pigs off at the abattoir and then headed over to a separate building where Gary buys the food for his pigs (10,000 kg per week!) Gary also went inside to chat to the owner about fertiliser prices. When finished we picked up several worker that would be one the farm from Monday until Friday and headed back for some breakfast.
Mum and I had a lovely long lie in in comparison to Dan, I only got out of bed at 8:30! We drove to the house in time for a great breakfast with everyone as Dan and Gary came back from dropping off the pigs. Evette had made fried eggs on top of a delicious tomato mix, and it tastes truly amazing on top of farm bread! I also had a slice of toast with jam and cheese, I can never resist it :D Dan, Mum and I headed into Graafies for the morning, to have a look at a few of the cute shops. The car was behaving itself as we drove into town, but when we got in she had started juddering again. Dan phoned Doug about the situation and once he explained the circumstances Doug offered that it could possibly be a transmission fluid leak that was causing our issues. Dan stayed with the car whilst mum and I walked down to the antique store near the church. There are so many lovely things in that shop that I wish I could buy.
Mum went into the bookstore to have a look around whilst we poked around the engine some more, and a really kind man from the bank offered to help us and directed us to his mechanic if we needed. Whilst we were outside mum had bought Dan a book of random facts about South Africa, how lovey! We stopped in ABSA to pay Mandy for our extra night at Arum Lilly, an exercise in extreme patience. Before we headed back to the farm we stopped in spar to buy some more cider and beer for the farm, we don't want to drink all theirs after all!
The mechanic that Gary had called to try to fix the landrover had not yet arrived, and so we sat down for a delicious lunch of a chicken pasta bake and veggies. Wow Evette makes amazing food!! After the gorgeous lunch and a fill of puppy cuteness we went back to the cottage for an afternoon nap and to try to catch up on blog posts. Whilst we were there it started to rain, which is a very soothing noise on a roof, I had a wonderful nap! It was still raining when we went back to the house for dinner and puppy cuddles. Mike started the weber on the stoep (porch) as obviously we couldn't have a fire in the rain. He cooked chops and boerwors on the weber which we enjoyed with a delicious salad and hanepoort. Whilst we were inside we heard the rain getting harder and harder, so we we t outside to rescue the cushions, only to find that the gutter was spilling over and pouring rainwater straight onto the camping chair that Gary had been sitting it, it was hilarious! After our amazingly tasty dinner we drove back to the cottage for a lovely nights sleep.
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