The welder failed us! We went this afternoon to pick up the peanut / corn roaster only to find out that he had not been able to make it because the electricity had been off Saturday and Sunday. Evidently this was a scheduled “lights off”. We knew the lights were off but we did not know that it was a scheduled lights off. He promised he would have it for us on Wednesday. Hopefully we will not run out of weaning mix before we get the roaster. Zorash, Amama and I washed the corn and soybeans this morning while Mr. Iddrisu and Steve worked at the Child Center. When they got backed up they would come to the house and get Zorash.
Meri did not come to work again today and she might be out all week. They have transferred her son Aliu to Tamale. He holds his head and cries in pain. Aliu has sickle cell disease; we Googled sickle cell disease to see if it can cause headaches. It can cause both headaches and strokes in adults and children. We wonder if that is what is going on. I think Aliu was born before my mom died. So that would make him around 17 years old. I will have to ask Meri how old he is to be sure. Steve called Meri this morning and she said that he does not seem to be getting any better!
Steve has been hunting around for baby formula. Our daughter Charity said that there is supposed to be a worldwide shortage. Steve wants to pack down as much as we can get. We will have to watch the expiration dates very closely; we would hate to have any go to waste! He talked to one of the distributors; he said that the baby formula we buy comes from Mexico; imagine that! He said that right now Ghana has a good supply on hand but who knows how quickly that might change. We have a dry place to store it so it might as well sit in our storeroom as in a warehouse somewhere.
This afternoon we went to town and ordered the meds that we will need for the next 3 or 4 months. The pharmacist was not around but Steve was able to leave the order.
Simeon came back today and started hauling gravel again. We got a huge rain last night and the back field was too wet for the motor king so we had him haul gravel around the mission house with a wheelbarrow. We have a huge pile of gravel in the backyard that we bought just to have to fill in the erosion.
This morning when we took our walk Steve carried the pick ax with him. We wanted to make sure that the drainage holes on the back wall were draining. He had to dig a couple trenches to allow the water to pass. He was in the process of digging up a Nim tree that was too close to the wall when he discovered a small snake. Of course the snake did not last very long! Most of the snakes here are poisonous.
Enjoy your day!
In His Service,
Steve and Kandie
