Timothy Niligrini, and his son Isaac, stopped by the mission house this morning. Timothy wanted to know if we had any temporary work that Issac could do. He wants to earn some money because his grandfather and grandmother’s final funerals will be held in April. Some of Isaac’s friends have gone down to the middle part of Ghana and hired themselves to be working in the gold mines. Not only is this very dangerous work; the mining is illegal and that is not an activity that a young Christian man should be engaged in. Timothy does not want him to go but he graduated from High School and is waiting to be accepted into a technical school. He has been trained as a tailor but that work is hit and miss. He said that the miners are paying huge wages. He only has 2-3 weeks before the funeral so there is not much time for him to find work. We told them that the only work we had was hard work which involved picking stones up out of the fields and digging up Nim trees that are growing along the cement wall. He was hoping for easier work but we already have people on staff that do the easy work. He is supposed to start tomorrow; we will see how well he works out. Timothy wanted to know if we would give him the job as a contract. We told him no, because we don’t even know how well he can do manual labor or if he will really come to work. That sounds like a good way for us to get cheated.
While Timothy was here, he picked up the class food money. The classes will be Friday and tomorrow is market day. We also gave him his pay packet. His daughter, Abigail, is going back to high school tomorrow; it is a boarding school in Tamale so he will have to send some food stuffs with her. Teenagers are always hungry no matter what continent they live on!
Later this afternoon Timothy said that they tried to get Abigail a ticket on one of the many buses that is going to Tamale tomorrow but they were all filled and there were no seats available. He said that tomorrow is reporting day for the students for all the schools so the buses had filled up quickly. We told him that she was welcome to go with us but we did not know for sure if we were going tomorrow or Wednesday because we were still waiting on a call from the Nurses and Midwives Council. Steve is supposed to be able to pay for his nurse’s license online or through the mobile money on his cell phone but there is a glitch somewhere or the server is down or maybe the system is so new that the paying part is not up and running.
Today was wash day! Right now, Steve is cleaning the floors in the Child Center. The Center will be open again tomorrow; 3 weeks of no one sweeping or mopping has taken a toll on the floors. We could have waited for Zorash and Meri to come to work tomorrow and let them clean the floors but some of the mothers get here before the workers and Steve did not want them to have to sit amongst the leaves and dirt.
Thank you for all you do!
In HIS Service,
Steve, Kandie and Skeeter
The Monkeyshines
I won the battle! Mom has been trying to force me to come out of that creepy door to the little outer room in my jail cell. I hate that room! I told you something died in there and I saw a mouse in that room and I saw a lizard in that room and it is dark in that room and yesterday a group of the big carpenter ants moved into the room; I saw them with my own eyes moving in; they crawled under the wooden floor; they came carrying their eggs so I knew that they were not just passing through! Mom tried to get me to eat them! What is wrong with that woman? Those things are huge and have huge pinchers; they were carrying their eggs with the pinchers. Several days ago, Mom thought that I would like to pass through that room if she cleaned it very well so I could not smell the dead rat/lizard. Well, she mixed up a concoction that could have killed me! She mixed bleach and laundry soap together and scrubbed the wooden floor where the varmint died with a metal brush! Then yesterday we had the ant problem that is when she tried to trick me into thinking they were spiders instead of ants. Now I love a good spider and when she starts saying, “Spider, Spider!” I came running but those were not spiders! She even killed a couple and tried to feed them to me. I laughed when one of them bit her finger and she had to shake it off. That is the point at which she got the bug spray out and lifted up the wooden floor and killed them all. Now, the room smells even worse; a combination of a dead animal, urine, bleach, and laundry soap! She can usually coax me though the door by catching my hand or grabbing my fur and dragging me through but today was a no go! I stayed in jail until almost 12:00. I refused my first bottle of the day too! I ate every scrap of food that was in my food dish! Finally, she opened the tiny door that they use for my food and I jumped straight into her arms. My bottle was ready and I drank the whole thing without stopping! I have been eating all afternoon. So, you see I won and did not have to go through that door
Does anyone know what they call a group of ants? Is it a hive or nest or a mound or what?
Love, Skeeter
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