Steve has been struggling with the copier this afternoon. We really need to take it to Tamale to let the repair guy look at it but we hate to be without it so we just struggle on! Steve is trying to print the booklet that Timothy translated into the Konkomba language. The copy paper gets stuck about every 5th copy and then it will pick up blank pages so all in all it is exasperating! We could take the booklet to the copy place in Yendi but they charge 4 Cedis for each copy. The booklet is 70 pages and Steve needs to print 45 copies.
Zorash cripped into the Child Center this morning; she had a motorcycle accident yesterday evening; she cracked one of her toes and had to have stitches on the underneath side of her foot and also on the top of her foot. She had 2 layers of stitches on the bottom of her foot. She said that the pain medicine they gave her allowed her to sleep last night. She spent most of the morning lying on the bench in the Child Center trying to keep her foot elevated. Kudos to her for coming to work!
While we were out for our walk this morning we saw Shiabu, the electrician. We asked him to come to the mission house so we could get an estimate for wiring the new building at Kulkpeni that we helped build earlier this year. We will need it electrified for the seminar. After he made the list of items he would need he went with us to the electrical shop to make sure that we got everything that we needed. Lord willing he is going to do the work tomorrow.
Red stopped by this afternoon for no reason; while he was here he used WD-40 and sandpaper to free up the handle and table on the drill press that Mr. Adams put the 220 motor on a couple days ago. We were happy to see him because we still had Kulkpeni’s signboard in the back of the truck. He took the truck and dropped the signboard at his house.
Stephen Morongo, one of our neighbors died yesterday so after we closed the Child Center we went to town and bought a 100 pound bag of rice and 5 gallons of cooking oil to take to his widow and children. They were grateful for the gift. Traditionally the people wait to take gifts to the bereaved family until the 3 or 4 day but we wanted them to have the food stuff right away because the house was already filled with people and everyone has to eat. The workers went with us when we delivered the food.
It rained late this afternoon. It did not rain long but we are getting to the end of the rainy season and we appreciate all the rain that we can get!
Have a great day!
In HIS Service,
Steve, Kandie and Skeeter
The Monkeyshines
Mom found giant bugs; the bugs are bigger than my head! They are plastic. Now what in the world was she thinking when she bought those horrible creatures? Does she want me to have nightmares? Has she forgotten that I am afraid of everything? The one she pulled out to scare me with today was some sort of huge black beetle. She could have at least started with the gigantic lady bug or honey bee! She laid it in the middle of the bed! I walked around and around that beetle until I got up enough nerve to knock it off the bed! But that was not good enough for Mom! Oh! No! She had to pick it up and put it back on the bed. I never played with it; all I did was knock it on the floor! I was afraid that it was going to eat one of my stuffed animals!
There is a place on my tail where the hair is falling off. I have no idea why it is falling off. Mom keeps asking me if I am picking at my tail or if I am rubbing it on something in my cage but I have no idea where the hair is going. The place is not very big; about an inch long. She said she may have to take me to the vet and have him look at it! Oh! Please don’t take me back to the vet; I would rather be a hairless monkey than go back to him!
Bugs are horrible creatures!
Love, Skeeter
