We spent the morning trying to put everything away that we hauled out to Kulkpeni for the seminar. Meri and Amama spent Monday and Tuesday re-washing all the bowls, pots, utensils and jerry cans. They still had a few jerry cans (5-gallon plastic containers) left to wash this morning. The ladies at the seminar called themselves washing the stuff but they did not have hot water and everything had a film of grease on it. We also have to make sure everything is well dried before we pack it away. While we were packing the plastic bowls, we pulled out all the broken ones. This year we lost 40 bowls! I think they were knocking the bowls on the ground to get the excess food out. That is another thing we will have to put on the list of reminders for next year.
Steve made several trips to town today. The little freezer’s fan has been squealing so he took it to the repair guy to have a new fan installed. When he dropped off the freezer, he told the repairman that it needed a new fan. Mid-morning the guy called and told Steve that the problem was with the fan and that it needed to be replaced. Really, imagine that!
Mr. Hayes, the pharmacist, called and said that the meds Steve ordered for the Child Center had come in so after he dropped off the freezer he picked up a load of medicine.
Amama did not come to work today because one of her aunts died and she had to cook for the strangers that came to pay their respects. We really needed her this morning but she will make the day up on her next day off. We got the beds changed and the washing done.
Zorash’s friend called and said that she had gotten a new shipment of fabric seconds and she wanted us to come and look at them. Even though we were extremely busy we went to look at the fabric anyway. Who could resist that invitation?
We spent the afternoon entering receipts and working on the audit. We had hoped to have it finished before we go to bed; we will probably have a late night tonight. We are going back to Tamale tomorrow to turn it in but we do not have to go until tomorrow afternoon so theoretically we should have all morning to fine tune it but who knows what tomorrow will bring.
Take care and enjoy your day!
In HIS Service,
Steve, Kandie and Skeeter
The Monkeyshines
Yesterday afternoon when Mom put me back in solitary confinement, I saw the tail of something in that dark room at the opening of my jail cell! I cannot best tell if it was the tail of the mouse that is in my house or if it was the tail of the Gecko! I don’t care which one it was, I cannot be happy about either of them! That was that! I have no intention of passing through that door ever again! I flat refused to use go through that door. Mom coaxed and pleaded but I was not budging even though I was desperate to get out! Mom finally opened the big door and sat inside the cage! She knows that if she does not sit inside the big door and block it with her body, I will jump past her and be free!
I have not been able to be tied so that I can climb up in the big mango tree for several weeks because the guest would have to walk past me to get out of their apartment and I would act ugly, stomp at them and make scary faces at them and holler! Mom knew I could not control myself so she moved me on the other end of the veranda where I only had shrubs to jump in! I spent the morning in the mango tree and the afternoon in the bedroom helping Mom with her audit!
I only got in a little trouble today. There were 2–50-pound bags of rice left over from the seminar. I like rice; I don’t mind if it is cooked or uncooked. I figured out that my teeth are sharp enough to make small holes in the bag of rice. I was having the time of my life before Mom realized that I was spilling more rice than I was eating! The fun was over when Mom dragged the rice away from me!
There is a wire container on the veranda that the parents keep bagged water in. It is customary to offer all visitors water to drink so they always keep water in the container. I was thirsty this afternoon so I bit a tiny hole in one of the water bags. The water squirted out in a nice steady stream because of the pressure from the bags sitting on top of it. I enjoyed drinking the fresh cool water. You know that now I have figured out how to get my own water to drink, I will be biting the bags even when I am not thirsty!
Water is Life!
Love, Skeeter
