Zorash came today; she worked the Child Center with Meri while I painted bicycles and Steve made umpteen dozen trips to Yendi and back. The first trip we made was to take the new van and the green truck for their annual inspection and road worthy certificate. The man did not even look at the vehicles; he said that he was confident that we kept the vehicles up and in good working condition. We went to the motor vehicle office that recently opened in Yendi. It is a satellite of the office in Tamale. One of the officers had to take all the documents that come in during the week to the Tamale office to get the stickers and pay for the inspection. We will be happy if it all works out the way it is supposed to work; it will save us many trips a year to Tamale.
I forgot to tell you that yesterday afternoon when we went to the back of the property to check on the workers one of the men was starting a little fire; the men had chased down and killed a big rat. They had divided it and were going to roast it! YUM! What a nice mid-afternoon snack!
Zorash stayed this afternoon to make up one of her days; she helped me paint bicycles. We also called her neighbor who is a bicycle mechanic. He and his assistant came and changed out the rest of the tires that either needed new tires or tubes. He also changed a seat and a kickstand.
We were finishing painting the last bicycle when the sky turned dark blue and we could hear the thunder in the distance. We quickly put all the paint and tools away and headed to the house. We had not paid the day laborers yet. We scurried as fast as we could but by the time we got to the jobsite it had started to rain. The masons were trying to use up all the cement that they had already mixed. The bottom fell out of it and everyone ran for the building that we had built last year. Several people jumped in the van with us. We had to wait for about 30 minutes before the rain let up. We got enough rain that the cistern was overflowing which makes us happy.
Steve drove the old van to the jobsite this afternoon. By the time we finished paying the workers and the rain let up the road was very mushy. The van is a very light vehicle with narrow wheels. We were stuck before we even moved 1 inch. The workers pushed us out but as soon as they stopped pushing we got stuck again. They pushed us out a second time and we slipped and spun and weaved and drove in the grass all the way to the field gate. If we had waited much longer to come out we would not have been able to get out without a tow.
Keep us and the work in your prayers.
In His Service,
Steve and Kandie
