While we were taking our walk yesterday we noticed that someone had put a sacrifice in the middle of the intersection. This one had just been put in the road and was fully intact. The sacrifice consisted of a calabash (dried gourd) bowl which was ¼ of the way full of red millet; red and black strings and an egg. I told Steve that I wanted to take a picture of it so we turned around and headed back to the house to get my camera. We did not get back in time. A herd of sheep had found the sacrifice and had turned it upside down cracking and breaking the egg. Naturally the sheep devoured the grain. The egg contained an almost fully developed baby chick. I felt sad for the baby chick!
Red stopped by this afternoon; he finished the doors for the garage. Now we will have to get Dawda, the mason to come and give us an estimate to hang them. Red is going to bring us a few loads of sand, large gravel and local gravel for a building project that we hope to start in the near future. There is a need for a building on the lower end of the property to secure the property. We think we will build a store room so the workers will have some place to store their crops when they are harvested. There are already electric poles on that end of the property so we will probably put it close to a light pole so it will be easy to connect the electricity. We might even put a street light on the pole for security. Everyone is building right now so it might be a little while before we get the sand. We are thinking about buying cement blocks already made to save time and aggravation.
Hero, the Nestles’ representative for Tamale, stopped by for a visit this afternoon. He is such a nice guy. The formula that we feed the orphan babies is made by Nestles. He wanted to introduce us to his new district manager. They were in Yendi visiting some of their vendors and he wanted to stop and say Hi! He brought us each a little gift. A Nestles planner and a towel. So sweet!
Speaking of formula, Zorash called this morning and said one of the caregivers was coming to get formula. We had to open the last box in the store room for her. We ordered some but the supply truck is not coming until next week. We went into town and went to several shops to buy it by the can instead of the case. We did not get as much as we needed so we will go out and look again tomorrow.
The power steering hose on the green truck sprang a leak; it will go to the mechanic tomorrow. Hopefully the repair won’t cost too much.
Take care and have a great day.
In His Service,
Steve and Kandie
