Reiki @ Oak Grove Farm

Do you need rest & relaxation, peace & tranquility and some energy balancing on an emotional, physical, mental and/or spiritual level?

Take some time out to give to yourself and allow the Universal energy (Chi or Ki) to replenish, ground, balance and uplift you or simply just fill you with inner peace and love.

D'Ville Ads

This is the advert I put together with the help of the designers of D'Ville Ads Publications, for insertion into a special Overberg feature, being distributed Dec 06 and Jan 07 on the Cape west coast area. I know we have had one direct call from this advert thus far and we shall keep tabs on the effectiveness of this type of advertising.

A gentleman, we'll call him Larch, leaving the farm two days ago returned yesterday to collect a small silver charm necklace which his daughter had inadvertantly lost and Bruce had managed to find, much to her delight, glinting in the garden in the evening sunlight near the barbeque area where the family had enjoyed themselves the previous evening. Larch, from the Kirstenbosch Botanical Society, said something to this effect: "When you close your eyes in Onrust (where they went on to vacation for a further 3 days) all you hear is shouting and splashing kids, noisy children, cars..." as he closed his eyes and soaked up the peace and tranquility that is Oak Grove Farm, albeit even for only another moment.

Evidence of the fire having literally licked the leaves of the Oak Trees is seen here in this photo of me in the lower dam with Hobbes and Baloo, one of the places where I practice my art of Reiki Healing for animals.
This photo shows the expanse of the farm as yet unestablished in the landscaping arena. Note the bare area around Rooibos House
Of course one needs to take time out to relax after getting fit running up and down the hill between the units. It had been quite some time since I considered myself fit in any way and the guage of one's fitness level is judged by one's rate of recovery - so I practised that a lot!! The burned pine forest in the distance still looks virtually identical
Yes, and there the dogs and I were, running up and down the hill - again! Just for the photo though... I am always looking for new photo opportunites for my other blogs, like Rainbow Kidz

BEFORE THE FIRE...
This is how the farm was in our first month of being here - before the fire! Before the houses were finished, before the gardens were planted, before, before, before...
We had just completed the wire fencing job on the white picket fence around Lavender Cottage, to ensure that our two rather large hounds, suitably named Hobbes and Baloo after their cartoon namesakes, would remain confined when necessary - and, of course, to have an accredited "pet-friendly" establishment in the future.
Note the large alien vegetation in the bottom left photo which soon got burned out! Now it has regrown after the fire to about 1m already and we are using poison donated by the DWAF Working for Water program to create areas of completely rehabilitated Fynbos land.
Personal note from author: One sometimes wonders what it is all about when your neighbour goes out hunting for the indigenous Rooikat under the auspices of them taking lambs... And that Fynbos behind Baloo in the picture of him with the Red Hot Pokers, well that is already all gone, for sheep food. I ask merely, what happens to that land if the rains don't come? Where is the respect, where is the love, where is the conscience, are we not all connected?

Fire Fire Fire...

FIRE ~ FIRE ~ FIRE

This is where we were 11 months ago!

Stanford's burning
Stanford's burning
There're no engines
There're no engines
FIRE! FIRE!
FIRE! FIRE!
Beat with the Wattle
Beat with the Wattle

28 January 2006

Note from author: The fiery rage which had burned inside me down at Reiersvlei - for various reasons, was made beautifully manifest by the awesome power and humbling ferocity of this fire, which raged around us for 15 days. On the last day when it was once again necessary to receive outside assistance, we were inadvertantly having lunch with the retired Chief of London's Fire Dept, Frank Mees, OBE to the Queen. We received a call from Stuart Findlay that we ought to get back as the helicopter was having to put out the flames coming closer to our new home, Lavender Cottage, as well as the rest of the units up at the top of the farm!