As you have all seen I have not played since our game against the Bulls.
We have been in conditioning training for the Springbok squad for the last 4 weeks and we will be doing tests next week in Cape Town to see if we have all followed our programs that we were given as all programs was individually made for every player to work on our weaknesses.
Talking about my injury all has healed well and I am ready to play any game I can the best I can play and it looks like we will be able to play next week, straight back into action against WP.
The Sharks are really playing great rugby at the moment some players are really putting their hands up for bigger honours. We are still top of the log but that counts for nothing, you only win the Currie Cup in October, so for the Sharks we have to play our best rugby over the next 4 weeks.
I hope you have all seen the advert on TV Supersport during the Tri-Nations games. If only I can tell you how many people have walked past me everywhere I go and just say - ‘ Pump pump pump pump by die Dam’ so for me I think Grundfos has got good recognition through this ad.
The farm is doing well the cows started calving from September so it’s been really busy for everyone, just checking and keeping in touch with the everyday operation of the farm and there are no complications in this department.
We also started ripping the fields for the summer crops but look let me tell you it’s been really dry and it’s just dust everywhere so we are all praying for the rains to come, as they say Water is life, this you can see when you are on the farm after one rain storm, the whole farm changes to green fields rather than dusty brown ugly fields.
We are also looking where the best place will be to put a new solar pump on the farm to replace one of the windmills and this will help the workers to have clean and fresh water for their families as well as being less maintenance and using renewable energy. This will be new age technology taking the farm into the next era – really exciting happening for us.
We are also going to do a trial test run for Grundfos on new technology and a CR Flex which is the well known CR pump but driven by solar. This model will only be available in 2011 for customers and the one on our farm will be one out of 5 installations in SA who will do this testing. Grundfos have told me this is a really good because now they will be able to offer pumps for many more applications other than borehole pumps driven by solar panels, so please keep in contact on the blog and once we have it installed and everything is running smoothly I could be contacting you to stop by the farm and check how it works.
