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 but I have heard the stories from Kandie’s family. For the first hour we hardly had anyone come to the Child Center. The mother’s don’t want to bring their babies out in such conditions. Around 11 am we started to have more people to coming to the Center. The winds were not as gusty but a whitish, fog like dust settled in reducing visibility to about ¼ of a mile.
I went up to the fast food place at lunch and when I returned Red was sitting under the mango talking with Iddrisu and Nazo. He had delivered two loads of gravel at Kulkpeni and needed his money. After talking with Red, I decided that I needed one more load of gravel out at Kulkpeni to build a veranda when we build the new rooms.
While I was eating my lunch Brother Divine came from Kpamang to get some money to send to a surveyor as a down payment to set some stake for the contractor to come to their village to build a dam for a small reservoir. Divine said it wasn’t long after the rains stopped last year that by the time ten women had pumped water from the borehole each day everyone else struggled to get any water. The village needs a better water source.
Nazo’s youngest boy Zimblim each year at this time has a rough scaly rash on his legs and arms. The boy hasn’t gone to school for the past two days due to the illness. I told Nazo he needed to take the boy to the disease control officer up at the hospital to see if they can decide what it is and get some medicine to treat it. I think Nazo was afraid of the cost but I told him I would help with that if he would just take the boy to be seen. Maybe the little guy can get some relief.
The high temperature for today was 109oF. It was market day so I waited until almost 4pm to go so the sun would not be so hot. Kandie is planning to arrive next week so I wanted to get some items to have on hand when she gets here. Today I bought groundnut oil (peanut), dried and green onions, yams, salt, and ginger. I tried to buy some eggs but the lady we buy from was out. I did happen to meet Mr. Adams, the electrician, as I was going into the market. He wanted me to be sure that I informed Kandie that he was sending his greeting to her. After buying those items that I listed above I headed down to a man’s shop where I have purchased car batteries in the past. He had one that I wanted so I bought it. After getting back to the house I hooked it up in the green pickup and it started right off.
I will close for the day. Hope you are having a good day and may God bless!
In His service,
Stephen Taylor
