We are proud to announce that we did not make a trip to Tamale today! Hurrah!
Today was the monthly church leaders’ / evangelists’ class. Steve said that 29 men attended the class today. He said that today’s topic was “The Husband’s / Father’s role in the family. He said that before he started the class he told the men that today some toes would be stepped on. He said that everyone seemed to enjoy the class and the material made for good discussion. Poor Steve did not get any lunch today! I am sure that he will enjoy his supper!
Zorash came to work today to make up for one of the days she missed earlier in the week. All week we have been trying to get to the grinding mill and to have the roasted grain ground into weaning mix. But with all our trips to and from Tamale we did not get it done so after we got the clothes hung on the line we headed to the grinding mill. The grinding mill that we normally go to had their grinder torn apart. Someone had taken the grinding plates to be sharpened. We had no way of knowing how long that would take so we went to town and found another grinding mill. We did not have to wait long to get our grinding finished. The weaning mix is super hot when it comes out of the grinder; it is cooling in the dining room and the whole house smells like roasted corn.
Zorash called later this afternoon to tell us that her friend, the seamstress, had fabric scraps for me to buy. When she called we were out at Timothy Niligrini’s house so on our way back to town we stopped, picked up Zorash and then went and got the fabric scraps. This batch was not as nice as some of them have been; there were lots of tiny pieces of fabric.
The Chief at Mion, the village after Timothy’s village of Kulkpeni died a week or so ago. Today they were enskinning the Regent. In our area when a chief is replaced they call it enskinning because these chiefs (kings) sit on animal skins instead of thrones like other kings. The kings (chief) in the southern part of Ghana are enstooled because they sit on stools instead of thrones. I said all that to say that the Regent that was enskinned was the Chief’s oldest son. The Regent is the one that is actually in charge of all the traditions and rituals surrounded around the funeral of the Chief. The traffic was terrible on the way to and from Mion because of all the people going to watch and participate in the enskinment.
Have a great day!
In His Service,
Steve and Kandie
