Vermoedelik het die feit dat my nooiensvan Bosch is, iets daarmee te doen dat ek gek is oor bome. <\/p>\n
Dit breek my hart as ek sien bome word verniel, en dit gee my eweneens groot vreugde as ek sien hoe vry die bome in \u2019n bos groei en gedy. <\/p>\n
My gunsteling plek op aarde is die bosse by Nature\u2019s Valley. Waar ek bome kan omhels, die blare ruik en die skurwe stamme my wang kielie.<\/p>\n
Vir my simboliseer bome standvastigheid, lewe en groei. <\/p>\n
Toe ons tweejarige dogtertjie, Yolanda, in 1989 oorlede is in \u2019n motorbotsing, het my liewe vriendin Anita vir haar \u2019n boom geplant in hulle tuin. Ons kon die boompie sien groot word, sien mooi pienk blomme dra, en skadu gee. Selfs weens die dood, het daar weer lewe voortgespruit. Die lewende boom het my veel meer gebied as die koue grysheid van \u2019n grafsteen. <\/p>\n
Dit het my onder andere genoop om met die geboorte van my kleinkinders vir hulle \u2019n boom te laat plant. Sodat hulle kan saam grootword, die vrugte en die skadu kan geniet. Heston is op 27 Februarie 2008 gebore, en ek het vir sy ouers \u2019n olyfboompie gegee. <\/p>\n
Die ou boompie het maar daar langs die huis gestaan en stilletjies gegroei. Niks buitengewoon nie. Heston het vinnig gerek op \u2019n stadium en hy het die boompie verbygesteek. <\/p>\n
En toe het die olyfboom weer verby die lange tiener geskiet. Nooit \u2019n enkele olyf gedra nie.<\/p>\n
En jou waarlik, \u2019n week nadat Heston vanjaar sy sestiende verjaarsdag gevier het, het die olyfboom, wat nou al dakhoogte is, se takke opeens krom gehang van die olywe. Die eerste keer ooit in die sestien jaar lewer di\u00e9 boom \u2019n magiese oes.<\/p>\n
Almal op die werf het help pluk \u2013 emmers en skottels vol! My dogter Erika en skoonseun Dawson het ingespring en resepte begin soek vir die oorvloed olywe. \u2019n Hele 100 kilogram daarvan! Nadat die lotjie gesorteer is en die vrottes en gesteektes uitgegooi is, is sowat 80 kilogram uiteindelik ingel\u00ea van die enkele boom se oes! Daar is variasies met knoffel, roosmaryn, peper, rissies en tiemie gemaak. <\/p>\n
Danksy die hulp van \u2019n ervare vriendin, is die vrugte eers drie weke in water gel\u00ea waarvan die water elke tweede dag geruil is; toe vir twee weke in soutwater, 24 uur in asyn, 24 uur droog gel\u00ea en toe ingel\u00ea. Eers na nog vier weke kan die spulletjie geniet word. <\/p>\n
Heston is vreeslik trots op sy boom se oes. Hy gedy nou nes die boom, bot op verskeie vrugtevolle maniere.<\/p>\n
So is mense ook maar soms stadig om tot wasdom te kom. Soms neem dit \u2019n klomp somers en winters om ons te vorm en sterk te maak voordat die heerlikste vrugte te voorskyn kom. <\/p>\n
Die wind suis soms liggies, en ander kere woedend deur die takke sodat die swak en vrot vrugte kan afval. En dan op \u2019n dag \u2013 bot, en bloei en dra die boom oordadig vrugte. <\/p>\n
Nou wag ons in spanning om te sien of Yula se pitlose granaatboom ons gaan verras wanneer sy volgende jaar sestien word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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