Steve spent the morning working on the lesson he will be teaching at the Seminar next week. He has several topics to teach since he and Timothy are the only speakers this year.
First thing this morning we got a call from Kwabena, the night watchman who is helping oversee the construction on the bathhouses at Kulkpeni. Last night when he came to work we gave him the cement money for the additional 3 bags of cement the mason was going to need to plaster the bathhouses. He called to tell us that there was no cement in Kulkpeni. The hardware store sold all of his cement. We jumped in the pickup and went to town to buy the cement. We needed to go out to Kulkpeni anyway to check to see how the work was coming along. We also carried communion juice to Timothy’s house. He keeps a supply at his house so that if any of the churches need it they can get it from him. Timothy was not around this morning; he had gone to work on his farm. We left the juice at his house with Simeon, a young man that is living with Timothy as his sewing apprentice. Simeon is also a member of the church.
We talked to Tichak, one of the night watchmen, last night and asked him if he could find someone to clean the storeroom early that we keep the supplies in for the seminar . The church ladies are going to clean all the rooms on Wednesday. We needed the room cleaned early so we could buy the food stuff on Saturday. If we buy it this week it will take part of the pressure off of us next week. Tichak said that he would ask his wife to clean the room today; we gave Tichak a monetary gift to give his wife for helping us out. We were pleased when we got out to Kulkpeni that the room had already been cleaned and the floor washed.
The mason said that he was going to finish all the rooms today. It will be good to have that job behind us! The bathhouses look very nice. We were worried about the doors that Red made; we were afraid that the mason would not understand how to hang them because even though we call them doors they are really gates and they are hung like gates; they have no door frame. The mason had 4 of the doors hung this morning and they looked good. The mason tried to get us to let him do the remaining blocks to make a wall to connect some of the buildings. We intend to do that in the near future but today was not the day to start another project! Please!
Have a great day and enjoy your weekend.
In HIS Service,
Steve, Kandie and Skeeter
The Monkeyshines
Today I helped the parents package up the small Ziploc bags that contain my dry food. We had to pack up enough dry food to last the whole time they are gone. I sure don’t want to run out of food while they are gone or I would starve to death. In the packets today we put raw peanuts in the shell, dates, dried apples, corn puffs, Cheerios, Frosted Flakes (one of my favorites) roasted coated peanuts (mostly I just pick off the coating and throw away the peanuts), Kulikulee (the by product from making peanut oil), Bran flakes (don’t care for them at all but would eat them if I was starving) multi-grain cookies (my new favorite thing), and dehydrated mushrooms. The workers think Mom and Dad are crazy when they start buying and packing stuff for me to eat! But I have to be fed; I can’t get out and forage for myself! Later on we will pack up the fruits and when we do I will let you know what they pack for me!
Mom tried to do a little sewing today and twice I got one of her straight pins. I know she does not want me to have them and that if I get one there will be a great chase! Of course she always wins and I lose the pin but once in a while I can pull the head of the pin off before she notices I have one. Some of her pins have plastic flowers on the end; they are my favorite because they are easy to get off!
I love my snacks!
Love, Skeeter
