Zorash and I left Steve and Meri alone mid-way through the morning because we needed to go to town. As you know, the delivery truck could not find formula this week for us so we have been hunting and gathering. Zorash reminded us of her friend that has a small warehouse; one of the items she sells is baby formula. We decided to go to her shop and see if by chance she had some. We were happy that she had one full box with 12 cans and one box that only had 11 cans. On our way back to the mission house we stopped at Abochi’s shop and paid too much to get another can to make our box complete. The lady that runs the warehouse said that her vendor was supposed to be bringing her a shipment tomorrow and that she will be happy to sell us the formula if she can get it. Hopefully she can get us more.
While we were in the market Zorash helped me find everything on my list. We needed new plastic bottles to put cooking oil in for the malnourished children. We also needed to buy a few more vegetables for Skeeter. We needed cabbage, garden eggs (small eggplant), bell peppers and carrots. I also wanted unshelled peanuts which we could not find in the market but Zorash called her neighbor to see if the peanut cracking machine in front of her house was working today. We were in luck! We rushed over to the cracking mill and found a lady who had not cracked all of hers that was willing to sell us about 10 pounds. They have to wet the peanuts before they can crack them so the shells on ours were wet but it did not take them long to dry in the sun.
Our last stop of the morning was the grinding mill. We had to wait for a little while before they could grind our weaning mix. One of the ladies was having her roasted peanuts made into peanut butter, another one was grinding soybeans that had been soaked overnight, she was going to make soybean kabobs and 2 other ladies were grinding corn; one batch was fermented and the other was raw dried field corn.
The officer at the vehicle registration office was able to get a new roadworthy sticker for my brother Paul’s truck but they could not make it renew in March because the computer would not go back that far. They had to make it to renew in June. June is a bad month for us because we are only here for a few days in June. Next year we will try and renew it early and see what happens.
Take care, have fun today!
In HIS Service,
Steve, Kandie and Skeeter
P.S. Please pray for the Underwood family (our daughter-in-law’s Melissa’s family) in the loss of Gary, Melissa’s uncle; he will be greatly missed.
The Monkeyshines
I am living the good life! I have officially moved into the new condo. When I woke up this morning, I had a wonderful new world to explore and the best thing about it was that I did not have a leash on! I threw myself all over that new condo! My favorite thing to do is sit in the hammock and attack the opossum! They hung a big thick rope that had knots tied in it from one side of the condo to the other. The rope passes right under the hammock so as I wrestle with the opossum I fall out and as I am falling, I grab hold of the rope. The rope is wobbly and as I struggle to keep my balance I accidently let go and fall to the ground; of course, I always land on my feet! I pretend that my fall was the opossum’s fault and dash back to the hammock to give him a good thrashing!
I figured out how to get up on the shelves that run around the top of the condo; that is a really cool feature! There is some sort of ugly stuffed lemur wearing a sweater with a raccoon looking tail tied on one of the shelves! Really, a sweater in this weather?
My problem is that I do not know how to get from the condo back into my jail cell so I can eat and drink. I have no trouble getting out of jail but getting back in is sort of scary. Mom is all worried about it but Dad said that I will figure it out. Naturally, I am not very interested in going back to jail but one does have to eat. I played outside lots today too and every time the parents put me back in, they put me in the jail side hoping that I would figure out how to pass back and forth between the two enclosures.
If I don’t figure it out, I will starve!
Love, Skeeter
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