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Thec way of life my friend and we simply have to accept the fact that nothing is permanent.
I avoid the issue now of discussing Squirry with Marian, as every time there are tears, so we just leave matters to rest.

I understand about not talking about Squirry, she was something special!

Thank you Sir @janton, we are struggling a bit with the signal here as they are loadshedding again and it affects the signal towers.
Squirry is indeed a sore point.

So you guys have intermittent internet connections down there? Did you guys have a New Years Eve party on New Years Eve? I can't remember if you are way ahead of us, New Years Day might be over there. lol.

We have what they call "Loadshedding" meaning that the electricity supply has deteriorated so much that they have to switch different areas of the country off on a rotating basis.
So when they cut our supply, the signal towers die and we end up with no internet.

Howdy sir papilloncharity! I hope things are going well for you. The power situation sucks. Most of the world wouldn't be able to handle what you guys do! We had our own power problems in Texas 2 weeks ago when the deep freeze of the polar vortex hit us.

Most people were out of power for 4 days. The water stations also froze up so we were also out of water, that was almost as bad as the electric outage.

Howdy Sir @janton, so great to hear from you as I miss our chats, struggles and concerns. Oh andd the humor of course. Just the other day the mountain goat and I were chatting about you.

Yes, our power system remain strained and I read all about the strange situation in Texas. Mother nature is angry about mankind's mistreatments and "ye shall see strange things that ye have never seen before in those days" certainly has a ring of truth to it.

We are now one day out of a severe fire that we had here for the last week in the mountains. Destroyed some 16000 hectares of land, but luckily no life, so yes, nature is crazy all over the world.

How are you doing nowadays? Something like a new business keeping you up?

Missing you boy.

Blessings.