Attie Heunis's Journey

The ramblings of a Caucasian African American

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Originally from South Africa’s magnificent Eastern Cape, my family and I now reside in Pennsylvania in the United States. To earn my keep I’m an executive for a multinational company in the Healthcare sector. I’m also a serious amateur photographer. Pro-environmental and conservation views.

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  • Karen Zoid at our coffee shop

    There was great excitement today when Karen Zoid and a group of her friends/relatives spent the afternoon in The Red Apple, our coffee shop. For foreign readers of this blog, Karen Zoid is a very well known Afrikaans rock singer.

  • Huis Heunis (Riversbend)

    Ek en Lené het so ‘n paar maande terug besluit om huis te bou. Ons is gatvol gehuur – ons moet in en uit oor Desember en ons betaal net ‘n ander ou se huislening af. Die erf waarop ons gaan bou het ek kontant gekoop vir ‘n appel en ‘n ui terwyl ons in…

  • The Pink Lady

    Yesterday my sister, her husband, Lené and I took the kids to Tamjazi, a petting zoo/coffee shop outside of Alexandria for some R&R. Here Elke is just about 9 months old. I’m proud to say that the frown on her face was inhereted from me!

  • SA bank fees The Most Expensive in the World!

    An international study by consultation firm CapGemini and its research partners, including the European financial management and marketing association, assessed South Africa’s banking costs for the first time and they found that South Africans pay more to own a cheque account than anyone else in the rest of the world. from News24.com. This is infuriating…

  • Its official: Elke is crawling!

    Elke has been getting really close to crawling all week, but today she officially started crawling. Three days shy of turning 8 months. This is meant to be early (babies usually crawl anything from 9 to 12 months), but I expect nothing less from our genius baby 🙂

  • Red Apple sales graph

    This graph represents the actual sales for the Red Apple Farm Stall® from 4 December 2006 to the present. I’m obviously not going to show the actual figures, but I think this graph is very informative nonetheless. The graph illustrates clearly how much of a seasonal bump we get over Christmas. Definitely worth a look…

  • Adorable Elke

    Elke has grown considerably, both mentally & physically, in the last 2/3 weeks. She allready has the strength (but not the balance) to stand for up to 5 minutes. She can also focus on something for much longer periods than before. And her hand-eye coordination improves daily. She loves plants (specifically brightly coloured flowers) and…

  • Red Apple progress update

    Well its that time. Tomorrow is when we officially open. I’m a little nervous, but we had a trial run on Friday and things went really well. I still have lots to do though, so I best crack on!

  • Boesmansriviermond in pictures

    I think this clarifies our decision to return to South-Africa. Daar is min dinge wat so mooi is soos ‘n mooi dag in Boesmansriviermond. Dit is een van die verskeie redes hoekom ons besluit het terug te keer na Boesmans om The Red Apple oop te maak. Hier is nog Boesmansriviermond fotos.

  • Elke Heunis is one week old!

    Elke was a week old yesterday. It is unreal how time has flown since she was born on the 27th of September. Her birth was an emotional roller coaster to say the least. I tend to get very focussed and quite grim during times of stress, so it was only a day or so afterwards…