It is trying to rain; we will not complain because we need all the rain we can get; please continue to pray for rain for our area and all the areas that need rain.
The neighbors on the lane over from us are digging a well. They started this morning. We wish them good luck finding water but several of the neighbors around us have dug and came up dry. The sad part about that is they have to pay if they get water or not. There is not much ground water under Yendi. Those that hit water are just hitting small pools of water; the water does not recover very fast. Over the years my dad dug 5 or 6 wells on the mission property. There is still water at the bottom of one of the wells but we can only pump for about 1 minute before the pump is sucking air. The well is 140 feet deep. My dad was very clever and he dug cisterns to harvest the rain water. Several years ago we decided to harvest as much rain water as we needed to make it through the rainy season. We bought a couple very large poly tanks. Now we catch water in the cistern; pump it to the lower poly tanks that store the water. We treat the water with chlorine. It sits there until we pump it into the overhead poly tank that supplies the house. The overhead tank is 40 feet high. We have all the water pressure in the house that we need.
Nazo was not here again today; I guess he was still helping fertilize the King’s farm. He did stop by last night to pick up the loaf of bread we bought him and the workers yesterday while we were in town. When we went to pick up the fabric we passed by the bread maker’s house; she is the one that we buy the bread from for the seminar. She had fresh baked bread. Who can resist fresh baked bread?
We washed clothes this morning, Steve took them off the line before it started sprinkling. I started washing the fabric that we are giving Timothy for the bag project. Much of the fabric is not color fast and it has to be washed several times to get all the excess dye out. I will finish washing the rest later.
We finished unpacking the suitcases this afternoon. It is a little time consuming because I like to sort and separate the clothes we bring in so they are ready to be distributed.
Steve went to town this evening and bought us a barbecued guinea fowl for supper. He was not able to find the bread that we like to use. He is in the process of making the garlic herb dipping sauce. If all works the way it is supposed to I will be finished writing the Yendi Notes about the same time he finishes supper.
Enjoy your day!
In HIS Service,
Steve, Kandie and Skeeter
The Monkeyshines
Mom figured out that I do not like the dark; the truth is I cannot see any better in the dark than people can. Mom used this against me today! I was being wilder than wild after lunch and I would not settle down so the parents could take a nap. Mom turned all the lights off and Dad turned the computer off. The windows in their room have been boarded up so the dust does not come in the room. It took me a minute to find them; then I had no choice but to lie down and take a nap. I sure was happy when the lights came back on. Mom woke up before Dad but I have my special ways of waking him up. Did you know that I can pull his eyes open with my fingers? Fun stuff!!!
I am getting so much better at jumping; I am a real high jumper. Have you ever watched the monkeys on the National Geographic specials jump from tree to tree with their arms and legs spread out and their bodies almost flat? Well, I have perfected that technique. It is just like I am flying through the air; most of the time when I jump from the top of the bookcase or file cabinet I try to land in the middle of the water bed. I love the way it feels! My aim is getting much better; when I was a baby I was jumping around in the bathroom and I missed my aim and landed in the toilet! After the parents quit laughing at me I was forced to endure a bath! Now I ask you, “Why can’t they put the toilet seat down?”
LIGHTS OUT ONLY AT NIGHT!
Love, Skeeter
