Category Yendi Notes

This morning I awoke before the alarm on my phone went off.  The clock said it was 5:15 am. I had most items packed in the van except the laptop computer and its accessories so I didn’t have a lot… Continue Reading →

I forgot to mention in yesterday’s Notes the early morning temperature was 71oF. It was quite cool for a change. Today’s high temperature was 113oF. If the past foretells the future our temperatures will be hotter in a couple of… Continue Reading →

This morning started out like it was going to be “one of those days”.  Zorash called me close to 9 am saying she was up all night with her little nephew who was having belly aches. She said she just… Continue Reading →

I had just been awake a few minutes this morning when I got a telephone call from Timothy Niligrini asking if we could leave an hour earlier than we planned for our visit to the village of Kulkpanga.  I had… Continue Reading →

By 8:30 this morning I had two loads of washing done and recycled the rinse water to be used for flushing the toilets and watering our tree. We started growing this tree last year from a branch that was broken… Continue Reading →

It was a quiet day around the compound. Nazo is the only worker here on Fridays and he had asked to be excused so he could go to a funeral today of one of the Regent’s elders. The first portion… Continue Reading →

It was another dry, blustery day around Yendi.  Just like yesterday the mothers were very slow in coming to the Center.  We were happy to see the two surviving babies from a set of triplets that came this morning. The… Continue Reading →

It wasn’t long this morning before the wind started picking up and by 9am it was like I was living in a dust bowl out West during the 1930’s.  Of course I’m not old enough to have gone through that… Continue Reading →

It was a bright, sunny day with lots of nice wafts of hot breezes in the air.  At one time this afternoon I thought there might be a storm brewing because the wind really picked up like it does before… Continue Reading →

This morning I awoke to the sound of my cell phone ringing.  It was Brother Divine from Kpamang. He was calling to update me about the plan the village is trying to make with a contractor to build a dam… Continue Reading →