You can fry and egg ...

As the northern hemisphere is getting close to
falling in to fall. Here in the southern hemisphere
we are close to springing into spring.
It was another slow blue Monday as the school is
out and it seems everybody else is to. It is the
basic vacation time and most people seem to prefer
this time of year.
So, this morning I just decided to take a walk out
towards the bush and headed towards the tarmac
of the village airport/runway.
In the picture above in the foreground is the tarmac
and we're looking in to the dried out bush area.
I have my little key chain thermometer attached to
my little day pack. After taking it out and waiting for
about 5 minutes or so the results were 105 F or about
44 C. Either way you look at the numbers the reality
was that ... it's hot and it's getting to you can fry and
egg on this runway degree of hot.
This is my first year in Namibia and so this is all new
and the question is ... if this is going into spring and
it's 105/44 is it a possible guess that it's going to go to
about 130? Actually doubt it as also during the winter
it doesn't rain. The rain comes with the summer and
should cool it down and turn all that yellowish color
to green.
With the heat comes the slowing down of an already
slow situation. This isn't new as in El Salvador and
Senegal it could get up there in temperature also.
What happened was that the people just did the big
siesta in the afternoon and life just went on. Things
got done when it got done.
A funny thing that happened yesterday morning was
a pig being stuck to a chain link fence for and hour
and a half.
At 5 in the morning we could hear this awful squealing
in back of the house. Upon arriving at the scene we
could see this approximately 125 kilo/250 lbs pig
with it's snout sticking through the chain link fence.
From the side of the fence in which the pig was on it
actually looked like the snout was hooked with the wire
entering in to trap the thing to the fence.
Looked like it was a real problem and what in the heck
was there to do, cut the snout off?
I thought that it would be better to go around to the
other side of the fence to get a better look at what
was keeping this pig attached.
After arriving and being able to get a better look the
pig wasn't hooked by his snout by by it's tooth.
Looking straight into the pig's face it was it's lower
right hand side tooth that was hooked onto the fence.
We tried to push and even tried to place a stick to
pry the jaw down. Needless to say, it didn't work
and the thing freaked out and at 5:30 in the morning
I had to shake my head with the reality that this was
the first time I'd seen anything like this.
So, after trying for about 15 minutes the conclusion was
to look for some wire cutters to cut the wire.
When we returned the pig had actually pulled on the
wire and it was about 6 inches or 15 centimeters away
from the fence but still hooked to it.
In the end all it took was for either the pig to move
forward a step or push it's snout down.
Of course it didn't move forward and so we pushed
it's snout and off it went.
An hour and a half to free a pig trying to eat through
a chain link fence and getting a tooth hooked.
That's the excitement so far this week, with the heat
it doesn't look like it can get any more exciting than the
pig and the fence situation anytime soon.