Irma's kids loved to visit Sheila, and when a very short time she had aquired just about every animal you can think of, the children started calling her old mrs Macdonald, which was very fitting indeed. She had now I think it was eight dogs, a mixture of Alsations, Boerbulls, one white and spoiled little cross with a body of curly white hair, soft and silky, and then there was poor , a blag doggy of no reconisable origen, but what made him so special was that something went very wrong while this wee thing grew in his Mummy's tummy, and he ended up with two ridiculous short front legs, and two even more ridiculous back legs, but he managed quite well, until the big dogs started pestering him. If he got tired of their attentions, he would try to get away, but with his long back legs he kept on doing some unlikely summersaults, ending up quite exhausted in the kitchen, where he was allowed to hide.
The week-end I did not do a lot, as Trienkie and her Husband Stephan came for a visit, so I took them on a sight seeing trip. Trienkie was quite diplomatic and in a kind of high pitched voice told me that she liked it a lot, but after we have been down to the river, she announced that although she would not like to live there, she would like a week-end house to come to for a rest from their busy life! Stephan, a real Yuppy was absolutely dumb struck, and walked around like a cat on a hot tin roof to try not to step on the cowdung and broken bottles that were a trademark of the people who lived there before. When Trienkie suddenly announced that maybe they should have a look at the other empty house where Ronalee and gary later bought, his face showed a hooror so big that you would think you asked him to jump under a train!
But he became a bit more acclamatised later, and planted my olive trees, for which I was extremely thankfull, as making that huge holes was backbreaking work.
Sheila had now aquired two cows named Jessie and Josy, and Irma's kids were enthralled with the teats that had to be pulled to get the milk out, and went over to Sheila the moment the car stopped at their house. She also had a few geese, and one of this was a very bad tempered thing, and chased me all over the show when I went for a shower or a visit and when I took the Lombard family to introduce them to the Earls, I laughed till I cried when this goose chased my kids all over, and them careering screaming over the shrubby yard!