We were right in the middle of working on the receipts when a big thunder storm came up and we shut down the computers for fear of them being fried. It happened to us once before and hopefully we learned from our mistake.
This morning Zorash met us at the grinding mill to make weaning mix for the malnourished children. It takes longer than one would imagine to grind the corn and soybeans into cereal. We have to run it through the mill 3 times to get it smooth enough. The soybeans have to be run through on a very coarse setting; we just want to crack the soybeans so the outer skin will pop off. The soybeans then have to be tossed about in the air (winnowing) to get the chafe to come off. The goats and sheep come running when they see Zorash working on the soybeans. It is their opportunity to get something special to eat. Zorash sweeps up the chafe and bags it to take home and feed her own sheep and rabbits.
I have started piecing a quilt top that is supposed to have 800 different pieces of fabric. It is a scrap quilt so there are no sound and fast rules about how it should be pieced together. The triangles are not very big; about 3 ½ inches at the longest part. The problem is getting 800 different pieces of fabric. Well, I had an idea. There are seamstresses all over this town and they all have bags of scraps. I decided that I would go from shop to shop and beg them to let me look at their scraps for scrap that was large enough to cut a triangle out of. I enlisted the help of Zorash and Steve. Steve drove as Zorash and I jumped out all along the road to town. We had a good time and everyone was more than happy to share with us once they knew what the crazy white lady was doing. We got tons and tons of scraps. I am not sure if we got 800 different scraps but we are well on our way. Steve is ironing scraps while I write the notes.
While we were at the grinding mill we had some field corn ground into cornmeal to use to make cornbread. No Martha White corn meal mix here. The Ghanaians don’t know what cornbread is even though field corn is their staple starch. Only the bread bakers have an oven so it would be very difficult for them to make cornbread. They could make hushpuppies but they would probably find that strange too.
Red got the doors finished for the church at Kpanjamba. Timothy is going to call the brothers and tell them the doors are ready to be picked up. They will be excited with the metal doors.
Thank you for all you do for us.
In His Service,
Steve and Kandie
