Fortunately, there were not so many mothers at the Child Center this morning because Steve and I abandoned ship half way through the morning to help Red and his apprentice hang the chain link fencing on the monkey house. That stuff is heavy and each layer had to be laced together. Steve and I laced the first 2 layers together. There is at least one more but I told Red that he would have to do the upper layers himself. Steve tried to get him to rent a scaffolding but he said that he thinks he can pull the truck beside the cage and put the ladder in the back and reach it that way; sounds like a good way to fall off the ladder and out of the truck all at the same time! We will see how he is feeling about it tomorrow when he gets all that set up! Ha! I was surprised when Red said that he was coming to work tomorrow because it is Friday and he usually does not work on Friday because he is a Muslim and Friday to Muslims is like Sunday to Christians. He will probably have an abbreviated work day.
I washed some fabric today that I have been holding since the last time we came to Ghana. The fabric is not color fast and I have to wash it 4 or 5 times to get the dye out. I have been saving it until we had enough rain to fill the cistern. I am letting some soak overnight to see if that helps. It might help if I had hot water but we only have hot water in the bathrooms and the electricity is so high that we hate to use it.
Everyone in Ghana is talking about the Ebola outbreak! Please pray that it stays where it is so it will have enough time to die out and not turn into a full-blown epidemic. It seems like every year one of the African countries has an outbreak. So far Ghana has not blocked anyone from entering her borders.
Hope that you have a great day!
Please keep us and the work in your prayers!
In HIS Service,
Steve, Kandie and Skeeter
The Monkeyshines
I only worked for a little while in the Child Center this morning. While I was down there climbing on the railing that surrounds the Center I found a gecko. Mom did not see me with the gecko or she would have saved its life. You know monkeys in the wild not only eat grasshoppers but we also eat lizards, baby birds, bird eggs and lots of other types of bugs. Well, I dismembered the gecko. It was a small one. All Mom could find of it were its front feet, head and a small piece of his tail. She is still wondering if I just played with it to the death or if I ate the tasty parts of its body! It is a question that she will never know the answer to! Some secrets are best kept as secrets! Yesterday one of the mothers dropped her baby bat out of the big mango tree; it was dead but I was still playing with it! Mom was not happy about that one either. Why she cares is beyond me; she does not like the bats because they poop on you when you sit under the tree; one would think that one less bat would make her happy! There is no pleasing some people!
Nuna-Nuna-Nuna-Nuna-Nuna-Nuna BATMAN!
Love, Skeeter
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