We have been running around like chickens without heads cut off today! We are trying to cross all our “T’s” and dot all our “I’s” to get ready to leave tomorrow to go down to Accra to pick up our guests. We talked to the Martins today; they are doing the last-minute things to prepare their house for the 2 weeks plus trip to Ghana. They had to winterize their house because while they are going it is going to get down in the 20’s. Not that is going to be a shock to their systems coming into 100-degree weather! Fun times ahead! They are excited! Please pray that their flights are not delayed and they are not left sitting in the airport for hours on end!
Nothing much happened at the jobsite today. John, the mason /foreman, had to take his 7-month-old little girl to the hospital because she had a fever and was vomiting. He said the doctor did not tell him what was wrong with her or what he was treating her for. He said that someone at the hospital advised him not to let her get out in the weather because she has an umbilical hernia and that the cold weather could affect it and cause her to fall sick and have a fever. Have you ever heard anything so strange? We explained that if she has a fever, she either has Malaria or she has picked up a virus or bacteria from someone and it has nothing to do with the umbilical hernia. He said that he has 2 little girls and that his wife is not giving birth to boys; Steve jumped right on that myth and explained that he was the one who was determining if the babies are boys or girls. He found that hard to believe.
The tile layer did not come to work today either. John called him to tell him that all the materials were ready for him to do the repair work; he said that he was coming but he never turned up. This afternoon we went to Kulkpeni to pick up the extra boards that were left; someone had helped themselves to part of the boards! That is very annoying; we even found some that had been pushed over the wall and were waiting on someone to come and get them. They had also taken a good portion of the scrap wood; probably to use for fire wood. There were also new piles of human poop behind the building on the cement slab. That is so nasty! The children run and climb over one wall; run to the other side of the property and jump over the other wall. If John tells them to get off the property, they insult him and tell him that the land is not for him! We are most concerned about the pooping; I told Steve that I am going to take the old motor oil that we have left from changing the oil and pour it all over the slab. When they jump the wall to poop, they will get their feet or shoes in the oil and old motor oil is very difficult to get off! We are not sure that it will work but we are going to give it a try; besides it will keep the termites at bay!
Please pray for us and the Martins as we travel!
In HIS Service,
Steve, Kandie and Skeeter
The Monkeyshines
I am in trouble again! But as always, I could not help myself! Once I got going, I could not stop! This morning Mom tied me in a place that was near the apartment where they were working and the big mango tree. I had enough line that I could climb up in the tree, I could also open the apartment door and go into the apartment. I could not run free in the apartment but I could sit up on the door and supervise the work that was getting done. Well, I noticed the outside unit of the split-level air-conditioning unit. I climbed up on the unit and then I noticed the foam cover that was covering the copper tubing that was running out of the back of the air condition unit. I just started by pulling off the tiniest bit of foam but the more I pulled the more came off. Before I realized what I was doing I had stripped about ½ the foam off the first coil. Mom noticed I was being very quiet and she came to see what I was doing and that is where the fun ended! She quickly moved me to another area of the veranda where there was nothing to do but pick up stones! She told Dad what I had done and asked if we needed to tape on another piece of foam. You know what Dad usually says when I destroy something, “I can’t have nothing!” He did not say it today but I know he was thinking it!
Maybe I am going to be an air condition repair man when I grow up!
Love, Skeeter
