Category Yendi Notes

The building is finished!  It is such a relief to have that behind us!  It looks very nice.  The guys will still have to water the floors everyday for the next week so that they will cure slowly.    We hired… Continue Reading →

The rains have started to wane.  It has been 10 days since we received any significant rainfall so everyone has started harvesting.  I am glad we had a significant rainfall this year; but the government did not subsidize fertilizer this… Continue Reading →

Dawda, the mason, told us that they would finish the building tomorrow.  He then said that we should do something for the workers to make them “happy”.   (A way of showing our appreciation for their hard work.)   I asked him… Continue Reading →

This morning was the day that Steve went to the hospital for his continuing education classes.  He talked to Dr. Owusu about Warihana’s case and showed him the picture of her ulcerated leg.  Steve told him that her father wanted… Continue Reading →

We are beyond excited!  We finally have the land papers!  The Land’s Commission called on Friday and said that the papers were finished; we wanted to be sure that we had them in our hands and that all the information… Continue Reading →

Kandie and I were up early this morning working on the annual audit and other financial items before we left the house.  Tis the season to have many things on our plate as we make ready for the seminar later… Continue Reading →

This morning we worked on the storage container.  We had a lot of extra stuff left over from the roof of the new building and we did not want to just throw it in the container without sorting it; removing… Continue Reading →

I lost count of the number of times we went to the tax office today.  We were still chasing that tax clearance certificate.  Yesterday evening after the office closed Steve met one of the workers at the vendor who sells… Continue Reading →

Still no tax clearance certificate!  This time the excuse is that the electricity has been off.  They have a generator and when we asked why they did not turn on the generator we were told that diesel is very expensive… Continue Reading →

Still no tax clearance certificate; the tax office failed us but we are not really surprised!  We sat in their office part of the morning and part of the afternoon.  While we were eating our lunch they called and told… Continue Reading →