Scrapyard Queen 5 day break!!

Well the 17th of March is always diarized cause thats my cuz'z birthday. We grew up together but he was different. He didn't become a scrap yard owner but a eye doctor! Anyway, we pack and head for the Wild Coast .......total bliss there.

This time I took my mama with and Gary took his papa and mama with! It was like the 3 bears & others...Mama bear, Papa bear, Papa bear's sister bear (my mama), Papa bear's sons - Gary and his twin brother Jaque, Papa bear's sister bear's daughter - Me & my buddy Derrek.

Well Gary hit the big 50 and so we spared no play or eating. We got to go to the Beaver Coffee farm and there we met Robby - the one holding the coffee beans. I was estatic cause I just love machines that produce something yummy, like the machine above that gets the shells off the coffee beans. This is an antique so one day it could end up in the scrapyard....but not in my lifetime.

Robby gave us 2 coffee plants and we gonna plant them and sell coffee at the scrapyard. I am just waiting for the guys to make me a radiator coffee machine, but maybe one of you guys know how and can show me with a simple diagram?

Aunty Lil got to play Glenda with the material snake and Gary got to model the exclusive, one of a kind skirts at the eMithini Artwear shop. I bought her first Hemp t-shirt that she has designed and I believe that she has a range of cosmetics too.

It's nice to see the material snake and that's when you know you can pose with the snake. In the scrapyard, we had a snake that literally chased our customers away. He was coiled up on the crank stand and soeone was looking at the cranks and we heard SHREEEEK. Then pitter patter of feet away from the cranks. Derrek caught him and took him to the wild where he is probably still there today. We went to Eshowe to look at a car to purchase. This car had stood in the grass for long and when we opened the bonnet, to check out the engine woops out slithered this snake. He was quite calm, so I geuss he was on holiday.

The Casino was a blast and we made bucks and had a ball! -as usuall, and this time I banked the money and did not blow it or spend it on a Uno or toyota corolla or skyline!! This is actually an article for my kid's who always wonder why I rush off with my winnings and buy old cars to sell. Well, darlings your mama is a gypsey and a scrapyard queen - and although you always see me working - I do have a life. So when I escape from my desk I find the gypsey in me and release it into a direction far far away from all scrapyards. The casino is fun cause you can be with alot of people and never have to talk to anyone at all.

Test the 4x4's in Mozambique

Guys off to Mozambique to test out the vehicles and design problem solvers for the next trip.
Here, Cios tries his driving skills at the wheel. This was business as the roads are not marked and the way to Santa Maria is ambiguous... follow the power lines.
Some places you don't see the lines and the road (sand) breaks up into 4 lanes in different directions and you must just choose, since the bush si thick and you canna see nothing - let along the power lines....Everyone you ask how far to Santa Maria?, they say 3 hrs even after 5 hrs traveling they say 3 hrs..
2 x vehicles on the trip - David & Charl's - consist of Ford & Landie. Well they both complimented each other. The pictures tell the story & the Cd is hillarious, especially when they start their joking, like come round the corner & hello!!! A grader at 1 km/hr..The comments are so funny, sent me a memo and I will invite you to a night with the gang watching the short video....(short 'cause they left with 5 video tapes and came back with 2. The others are some where between Richards Bay and Mozambique still waiting to be formatted. One is formatted to show on TV and the other formatted to show on computer. So if you wanna watch, prepare to jump from TV to computer. )
All in all the guys had a good experience and told us that it is far. Also, they left the rump steaks behind, by accident and ended up preparing the braai and then wondering what was next. Well, that's another story.

On of the regulars of the scrapyard.

Tony is often at the Scrapyard and I am often at the racing. Tony is one of the craziest drivers I will ever know. He demands pasion when he races from his heart. He breaths the fumes of his oponents only when he laps them. You have to live to see him race and the part is vicious if he loses! He will take off one day with speed. Tony drives any car that is there and I dought wether they can make a car that will tollerate his speed. You just gotta see him in action.

Mazda MX5 has a facefift

The Mazda is a fun in the sun car. Here the girls represent the track and a famous racing driver in the background. I think they really look the part and the enthusiasm can be seem in their outfits and their faces. As you can gather this is a hot rod event. The girls separate or the car separate don't tell the story. Therefor sometimes you can't capture the art of the event but the story.

Srapyard Spider creeps

This is the picture you would expect to find spiders lurking around? The effect is caused by the reflection on the glass and captured at the right light. The decibels here are clearly zero or else this picture couldn't portray what is has to.
What it portrays to me, is a vehicle in the barn from a story of the renown Steven King? Look at it long enough and you will see the eeriness of it.

Scrapyard Terror

The picture of the car as a whole is not art but terror. A picture of a small part of the terror becomes an art piece, unique to itself. The way the pieces have been been cut and thrown back into the car has depth. What strikes me here is the "Cris's cross" pieces (support pillars) in front and then ends with a circle (the steering wheel). This is a picture of life with its obstacles on the way towards the circle of completeness. Some obstacles are sharp and cut deep, others are shiny but look the way you interpret them - at the time. Most obstacles are just placed there by someone else but we tend not to blame them but get on with life. Some areas in our lives are still untouched, like the perfect door arm rest on the door, but we might never get to them as life is not always ended when we decide. Life is given to us and taken from us when we least expect and we cannot choose to take our treasures with. This is what this piece of art tells me.

Scrapyard Art

This is a piece of metal that shines as if polished. The stress on the metal will either make it blister, crack, dull or shine. This piece is tired and has retired basically due to the common illness forced on its life by man - metal fatique.
The corrigated metal behind is reminisant of the old shed but note that dust has not begun to settle yet?
The light fitting from the car forms a cup - waiting for the moisture to settle in and rust a hole in to it.
A piece of the enviroment it lunged into still hangs on the car, as if welded there.
The rich red from the floor contrasts nine in colour. All I think that would make this picture famous would be the introduction of a man's fragrance bottle lying in the light bowl? This would be something in the line of the dark side of the moon(man)?