Steve is outside cleaning out the van so it will be presentable for us to take to Tamale tomorrow. First he was cleaning out the truck because he thought that was what we were going to take. He forgot that we needed to take the van and have the air conditioning checked. I still think that it is not cooling as well as it should be cooling. I think it needs a little Freon; then I am no mechanic but I know where to find a mechanic.
Amama and Amina (Nazo’s wife) worked in the house today. They were also in the apartment; it is amazing how dusty things can get in a couple weeks.
The green truck stinks. I mean really stinks. It smells like something died in it. A couple days ago we heard the fan make a very strange noise but could see nothing wrong. Yesterday this awful odor showed up. We have looked all over that truck to try to find the odor. We have about decided that the noise in the fan was some critter that got killed. It stinks worse when we turn on the air conditioning. This morning Steve got a Febreeze car air freshener and put it in the truck. Please when we headed to town this afternoon I almost gagged it was so bad. The Febreeze air freshener only added to the nauseating smell. Surely in a few days in this heat the odor will disappear. Hopefully it will disappear before Sunday. I would hate to drive to the bush without being able to run the air conditioning.
This afternoon we noticed 3 women working on a partially dead tree in our neighbor’s yard. One of the ladies was up in the tree with a long stick with a home-made hook on the end. They were pulling down all the dead branches from the tree. They were doing a pretty good job of getting the branches to come out of the tree. Almost everyone cooks with firewood and fetching firewood is the woman’s job. Fetching firewood is job number 103 that I don’t want to do!
A disabled man came to visit us today. When we see him in town we always give him a little money to buy something to eat. Today we gave him a ball cap as well as a little money. He is both physically and mentally handicapped. He said that he wanted to catch the doves that roost on top of the mission house. He wants to catch them to eat. We told him he was welcome to them but we don’t know how he is going to catch them. He said he will bring a basket and put grain in the bottom and catch them when they go in to eat the grain. It is an idea but we don’t know if it will work.
Take care and have a great day.
In His Service,
Steve and Kandie
