Miniature donkeys

 I loved the friendly donkeys...who let me pet them out on the patio at the Bush Farmhouse Restaurant.

Taking a picture of a big old pig wasn't very easy.

I didn't see the animals again in my area of the restaurant while waiting for my friends, or during our meal.

I did have a rather pricey but delicious beet and cheese and arugula salad. I'd never heard of the cheese, and probably it's not on my diet, but a soft round which was really good. I love beets in salads. It was called Beet Burrata, and didn't have berries which are on the menu, but the sage anchovy dressing was most agreeable.

The hamburgers which my friends ordered cooked "rare" were well done, because (the chef said) there is pork sausage in with the beef, and it needs to be cooked to that temperature.

Today's quote:

​Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Lunch with(out) the animals

 Actually most of them were out in the garden, and only one donkey came into my dining area, and was easily steered out to the garden by one of the staff, and that was before we ate.

I got there early, at The Bush Farmhouse, which has gone through several changes over the years When I moved here in 2007, it was a little farmers market which was owned by folks who soon became friends of mine. It was a bit pricy but local produce was available all year round.

Later owners put a lot of effort into raising various veggies right on the property...and those beds are still active.

Well, the chickens thought this dirt had just the right bugs or worms for them to scratch up.

There's patio seating where the little donkeys were walking, before any customers came in. They are miniature donkeys.

This was our table, where lone little me sat for a half hour waiting for my friends. In the meantime about 6 other tables were set up, most on the patio. This area is kind of halfway inside and halfway outside.

It's also where the bar is situated.

I really enjoyed reading the menu, then asking for definitions of some of the words...this is South African cuisine.

OK, I've already shown you a lot, so let's do other photos tomorrow!

Today's quote:

​The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas-covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal, is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be. -Douglas Adams, author (11 Mar 1952-2001)