We enlisted Amama, Zorash and Meri this morning to help us fill the food bags for Skeeter. We had to fill 100 bags. Skeeter gets a bag every day, and sometimes 2 if Mr. Iddrisu and Donkey feel like he is still hungry. The bags we filled this morning were the ones that had the frozen fruits and vegetables. We set the bags of pre-frozen fruits around the dining room table and everyone walked around with Ziploc bags filling them. Even with 4 people walking around the table, it still takes a long time to fill that many bags. Meri was packing the bags in the freezer drawers. This morning we had pineapple, apples, grapes, yellow melon (sort of like a small honeydew melon), watermelon, garden eggs (small white eggplant), tangerines, some little fuzzy seed/nut that we don’t know the name of, bell peppers, carrots, cabbage, papaya, boiled yams, the little fruits that look like grapes but grow on a tree, and bananas. I have to say that the last few bags were just a hodge-podge of what was left over. We are happy to have that job behind us.
This morning before the Child Center opened Mr. Iddrisu and I counted money and sent the surplus to the bank in Yendi. If the workers run out of supplies they can go to the bank and withdraw the money. This is a much better way than we used to do it. Before we started using the bank account, Timothy Niligrini and Mr. Iddrisu had to ride the bus to Tamale, go to the bank and then come back on the bus with a large sum of money. It is much safer to have an account in Yendi. The account is a savings account only and to withdraw money 2 people have to sign the check.
You know we have been trying to heal the huge sore on Mr. Iddrisu’s leg / foot. It is looking much better; it still has several months before it completely closes but at least it is getting better. We really thought that he might have diabetes but he does not; it was just a nasty wound that got seriously infected. The doctor has stopped giving him the antibiotic injections; he was getting 2 injections a week. We are happy that he is off of them because that is a lot of antibiotics to be getting every month!
We got a big rain last night but we also got lots of wind. Zorash was complaining that they were not able to catch much of the rain water because the wind was blowing it everywhere and it was missing the pots and pans they had sitting out to catch the water in. We caught plenty of it at the mission house because of the gutters around the roof. The cistern overflowed!
Please keep us and the work in your prayers!
In HIS Service,
Steve, Kandie and Skeeter
The Monkeyshines
Before the workers came to work, the parents were outside working on my new condo. They had to cut the privacy canopy fabric that is covering the sides of the condo. In order for them to reach the portion that needed to be cut off and latched back down Mom had to climb on top of my jail cell. She was up there for a long time working! I was beginning to wonder who was the monkey! Dad was on the other ladder handing her stuff! I thought it was all grand fun! I scared them several times by running up and nipping their fingers when they were poked through the bars of the jail cell! Mom took her shoes off and climbed in her bare feet; I bit her toes a few times too! She has stinky feet so it was one of those grab and go things! After they finished the outside Dad started working on the inside. One of the things that he had to do was to reposition my hammock. It was sagging so much that I could roll it around and turn it upside down on itself. That was not hurting my feeling but Mom was afraid that somehow, I would get rolled up in the hammock or get my tail twisted up in the hammock so Dad moved the “eye” bolt and now it is much stiffer.
I still love my new condo; all visitors are welcome!
Love, Skeeter
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