Category Yendi Notes

We were so happy this morning when we heard the sanitation truck coming down the lane!  We really did not think that they would come back today even though they promised.  Steve had just finished chiseling a 6 inch hole… Continue Reading →

Divine stopped by this afternoon.  He was all smiles!  He finally got his “national service” transferred to Yendi District.  They re-assigned him to be a teacher at his home village of Kpamang.  We are so happy for him.  He is… Continue Reading →

When Steve talked to Jimmy and Mary Stroud yesterday they were almost home – Athens, Alabama.  They were tired but still in good spirits.  Jimmy will go to rehab for a few days to regain his strength. This afternoon the… Continue Reading →

It rained off and on all night.  We decided that we would not cook corn today because the house is falling apart and Timothy came back to paint.  In order for him to paint in one of the bedrooms we… Continue Reading →

My hands stink!  We have been making ointment for ringworm.   We used sulfur powder in the ointment.  My hands smell like rotten eggs.  Making sulfur ointment is one of my least favorite jobs.  We made 450 containers of ointment.  We… Continue Reading →

I am certainly glad we were able to get the pickup’s air conditioning working for the trip today.  We went to the village of Salankuga located east of Yendi and on the other side of the River Oti. Half of… Continue Reading →

You did not get Yendi Notes last night because we were stuck in Tamale without the computer.  We did not plan on spending the night in Tamale so we did not take anything with us; not even our toothbrushes or… Continue Reading →

The electricity has been off all day!  Not only has it been off all day it was off for most of the night.  No one knows why it is off.  They put a new pole in the back field in… Continue Reading →

Gomda the mechanic got the truck up and running.  He was surprised how much water was in the diesel tank when he took it off to clean it.  He said that there was also dirt and debris in the tank. … Continue Reading →

We left the house a few minutes before 6 this morning.  We had to stop by Timothy’s house on our way to Tamale to pick up the papers for his motorcycle.  We needed to be able to prove we had… Continue Reading →