On 6th March 1957 Ghana celebrated its independence from England who had colonized the country. Even though it is a national holiday there was still work going on in the compound. Iddrisu and Nazo wanted to paint the wood treatment on the lumber and two men from the mason’s crew said they would come and clean out all the cement rubbish from the gutter. At one point this afternoon the temperature was 119 degrees F. The mason crew finished their work around 10:30am so they missed the worst of the heat. Iddrisu and Nazo are working under the mango trees painting on the wood treatment so they didn’t have the sun beating down on them. Red spent most of the morning using the gasoline blower to get rid of the dust and dirt on the exposed rafters on the roof of the house.
I spent most of the morning using the canister vacuum cleaner to suck up all the dirt and concrete dust all around the house. This was the second go round of cleaning up. Because it was a holiday the women didn’t come to work this morning. This dust and grit is getting on my nerves but it is a necessity to get a new roof put on the house. Kandie took Paul and Zorash with her this morning to have the groundnuts (peanuts) ground for the PPP that we use at the Child Center. Paul wanted to film the process while the person made the groundnuts into a paste. Later in the morning some brothers came from the village of Wadiig for a visit. Brother Divine and his wife Gladys also stopped by with some shelled groundnuts as a gift for us. Today is Yendi’s Market Day so they stopped on the way to the market.
Later in the afternoon Kandie and I headed into town. There were two things we wanted to do. Stop and purchase the boxes of nails Abochi the carpenter and his crew will need to start work tomorrow and to go to the market. We were able to get the nails before going to the market. We bought dried onions and six bottles of fresh groundnut oil for cooking some chicken tonight for supper. As we passed by the old men that sell the skins, shells and trinkets Kandie passed out several photos of them she had taken the last time we were here. The old men were happy to get the photos.
We will call it “quit” for today. Hope your having a good day. Thanks for keeping up with us.
In His service,
Stephen & Kandie, Paul
