Well, let me try to get you the most important update of your day…..for yesterday which is before your yesterday. After eating some unknown ‘food’ for breakfast, I prayed my usual after meal prayer; “Lord, please don’t let this food hurt me, amen”. Then I decided to sneak out past Bafo and Kelvin….would have made it too, except I got stuck in the mud and had to be pulled out by Toyota..in the ensueing commotion, B & K heard the laughter and manage to attach themselves to me scheming how to disrupt my day. Out to 'satansaw' we went….which as it turns out, has a purpose…if I keep it between myself and the boys, they keep their distance. Somehow, much to my and all others amazement, I managed to get 2 cabinets put together.
Sandy, Geri, and Marlies worked on keeping the little buggers at bay, working like sheepdogs. Snake Charmer and Geri worked in tandem taking 5 or 6 pictures of each of the midget tormentors. Since all kids under 4 look alike to me, I suggested that she just take 4 or 5 kids pics, duplicate them and just put different names under each.. Charmer has been studying under Jeff and was able to slip me the “the what a dumb***” look….pretty good too. I’m sure that she thought that she hurt my feelings, but I just slinked away chuckling. Without much help from me, hopefully the pics will be on the Rehema website soon.
A remarkable thing happened yesterday….it didn’t rain. We were so confused, we just sat inside with our life jackets on, expecting the worst. We thought that if this continues for a couple of days we would send out a dove to see if it could find any dry land to land on…. The electric bucket guys must have been celebrating the no rain as we had several empty wire times.
I told you about the wash ladies that do our clothes in buckets on the ground. We have taken to having great respect for them, as they are able to remove hundreds of pounds of snot from our clothes everyday. I don’t know how much snot a three year old can produce, but if anyone could come up with a use for it, I think we have stumbled onto the motherlode…..might be worth investigating.
Jeff dabbled in the 21st century today by hooking up and trying to ’point’ a tv satellite dish…..I didn’t have the heart to tell him that they didn’t direct satellite towards 3rd world countries. Last I saw him, he was sitting in front of a blue/snowy screen…..apparently very happy. Today, I think I will slip in a dvd and blow his mind.
Last night for dinner, we had what they called ’fish’ and I think it might have been once. Along with it they served ugali. Ugali is made from corn…..it is 60% corn, 20% flavor removers, and 20% Elmers glue. Traditionally they serve it with and axe and hammer, but as technology has increased, they have moved up to a chainsaw. The kids do love it tho, and I have come to appreciate it as well as the kids all sit quietly for a long time looking like cows chewing their cud.
As I mentioned last night, Carla has malaria again, and they have used the big guns on her last time with quinine….so please do pray for her….as she is our only defense against Jeff. Everyone else is fine with just a light covering of snot.
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