6 Nov 2008
Hi Shani,
Veels geluk met Carlien se verjaarsdag. Ek het dit nogal op my kalender
aangeteken gehad.
Ekt so 2 weke terug begin water in my swembad intap vir die somer. Tap
maar elke winter die ding leeg en spaar so op chloor. My dam is so in en
op die rotse gebou dat hy het nie ’n kans om te bars as hy leegstaan
nie, so dis nie ’n probleem nie.
Anyway, while filling the pool the water collected at the deep end and
one of the first things that happened was that Maya, of course,
immediately became thoroughly involved as soon as the water started
splashing. She stood in the slowly filling deep end, under the stream of
water to see whether she could swallow it fast enough to keep the pool
dry. She stood with her upturned head, mouth open and the stream of
water squirting directly into her gaping mouth. She couldn't quite
manage to swallow fast enough and breathe at the same time, so this
involved some coughing and wheezing, much head shaking and so forth.
Still, she tried in all earnest and was really giving it a go!
While valiantly attempting to save our pool from drowning, a good sized
frog plopped out of the water pipe like a champagne cork, landed on
Maya head and bounced off into the knee deep water. This, in the course
of events disrupted Maya's rhythm of swallowing and coughing. She tried
to peer through the steady stream of water to see what had attacked her.
She had to take a step back out of the pouring water to be able to see
at all. She saw this thing swimming in the water and promptly pounced
with both front feet on the frog in a stabbing action. The frog
disappeared under the water. The water was too murky to see the
creature, so Maya plunged her head up to her ears under water and
started looking for the frog. Traversing back and forth in the small
pool of water she looked for the intruder only occasionally coming up
for air.
Nobody told her she cannot smell under water, so when the looking alone
did not produce results, she tried smelling. It was a disaster! The poor
dog very nearly drowned! I had to dash in and rescue her. This really
made her upset and if she had gotten hold of that frog right then she
would have torn it to pieces! She tried stomping on the elusive frog
barking, and biting at the water. The foul language! It was something
terrible! We got concerned about the neighbors and eventually we locked
her up in the back garden so that I could retrieve the frog with the net
and chuck it over the garden wall. Gave Maya a bone to chew to distract
her and she eventually settled down.
Adrie sends her love and also her best wishes to Carlien and Seelan.
Groetnisse,
André
André de Beer