OUMA Tricia Groenewald van George het die afgelope drie weke in Graaff-Reinet gekuier, maar tyd vir stoepsit en teedrink was daar nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ouma Tricia is die moeder van Gift of the Givers (GOTG) se geoloog\/paleontoloog, dr. Gideon Groenewald (oftewel Oom Gideon Waterman, soos hy alom bekendstaan) en het op die rype ouderdom van 90 besluit om \u2019n kykie te kom kry in haar seun se merkwaardige lewe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die avontuur het afgeskop met \u2019n besoek aan boere in die Sutherland-distrik wat baatvind by GOTG en Save the Sheep se droogte ingrypinge, boorprojekte en voerverspreiding. Daar was ook tyd om blomme te gaan kyk in die Roggeveld. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hiern\u00e1 het Ouma Tricia weinig rus ingekry, want vanaf Sutherland het sy saamgekom na Graaff-Reinet waar Oom Gideon tans met verskeie boorprojekte by skole en in die boerderygemeenskap besig is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ouma Tricia is op 90 nog baie avontuurlustig en wil niks van die opwinding misloop nie. Die GOTG-span, van die boormanne tot die bestuur, is verbaas oor haar lewenskrag en aansteeklike joie de vivre<\/i> en g\u00f3\u00fa het sy die bynaam \u201cGeneraal\u201d verower! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vir die GOTG-span begin die meeste oggende reeds om 06:00 werk en dikwels word gereedskap lank na donker eers neergel\u00ea. Di\u00e9 lang ure het ouma Tricia egter geensins ge\u00efntimideer nie en sy was dag en nag op haar pos, kierie in die hand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk loop sonder di\u00e9 ding by my huis, dis net om my seun gelukkig te hou dat ek maak of ek die kierie nodig het,\u201d skerts Ouma Tricia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Haar kuier duur nou al langer as wat sy beplan het en daar moes \u2019n tweede keer voorskrifpille by Merino Apteek gehaal word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die apteker het opgemerk dat sy,\u201d Darem baie op-en-wakker en helder van verstand vir haar jare is\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr Lucinda Booysen, wat met groot sorg seker maak dat ouma Tricia se beenwond mooi herstel s\u00ea, \u201cSjoe, Ouma wip nog soos \u2019n jonge dame op die ondersoektafel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Op die vraag wat vir Ouma Tricia \u2019n hoogtepunt die afgelope drie weke was antwoord sy: \u201cDaar is te veel om te noem. Ek wil nou vir my \u2019n mooi foto-album laat maak sodat ek elke dag weer daarna kan kyk en dit vir almal kan wys wat so nuuskierig is om foto\u2019s van my avontuur te sien.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Soos haar seun, is ouma Tricia \u2019n diep gelowige mens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die feit dat sy Vrydag tydens \u2019n funksie by Narsingstraat Prim\u00ear onder die eregaste getel het en die hand van minister Barbara Creecy geskud het, weeg nie vir haar meer as die feit dat sy Saterdag saam met die res van die GOTG-span kospakkies en omgee kon uitdeel in Steytlerville se informele nedersettings nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy was ook baie opgewonde om haar seun op \u2019n paleontologiese ekspedisie in die Schoombee-distrik te vergesel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dat sy egter dankbaar-trots op haar seun is, kan mens nie mis in die sagte kyk van haar o\u00eb nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Een ding is seker: Di\u00e9 dapper \u201cGeneraal\u201d is \u2019n vrou met yster in haar are en die aftree-oord gaan hulle hande vol h\u00ea as sy eersdaags terugkeer George toe. Ouma Tricia sal op 19 November haar 91ste verjaardag vier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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