Yesterday when we dropped Kulkpeni’s signboard off at the painters, one of the officers from GRA (sort of like our IRS) stopped to greet us. He said that he was surprised that we were still in Ghana; he wondered why we did not go home to cast our vote for our presidential election. We explained that it was not time for us to go home yet and that we would have voted if they had made the absentee ballots easier to cast. It seems the Ghanaians are as interested in who our next president is going to be as we are.
Mr. Iddrisu and Donkey started hauling cement blocks from Red’s house this morning. Well, actually Donkey moves blocks while Mr. Iddrisu drives the motor king. Donkey was going to hire the men that helped last time but by the time he got up and going this morning they had already left for the day so he moved blocks by himself. Donkey’s back is not all that good either; at least he had on his back brace this morning and we gave him some pain medicine and told him to take it easy and to just move a few at a time and then rest. The guys need the extra pay so they don’t complain much for fear we will give the job to someone else.
Yesterday afternoon Zorash ordered the containers for the Shea butter. The lady in Tamale sent them to the station where they were loaded on a bus coming to Yendi. They did not arrive until around 8:00 last night. Zorash went to the station and hired a yellow yellow (3 wheeled taxi) to take them to her house. Steve went to her house and picked them up this morning and packed them in the store room. It is amazing how much Shea butter we go through! Yesterday we bought 4,000 containers. That should last us a couple years. The mother’s love the stuff; and they do not believe us when we tell them that we do not add anything to it; it is just plain Shea butter.
We went to the market this afternoon because today was Yendi’s big market day. We only needed bananas for Skeeter but found several other things to buy. The guy that sells used bedding had just gotten a new shipment and I found a couple table runners that I am going to cut up and use for the “crazy quilt” that I have been working on for the past few years. It has lots of embroidery on the patches; it is my traveling project! I work on it on Sunday mornings while we are going to the villages to worship. I like to add pretty lace, buttons and trim to the blocks. I am in no rush to get it finished.
Thank you for all you do for us and the work!
Happy Voting!
In HIS Service,
Steve, Kandie and Skeeter
The Monkeyshines
Today was a much better day! Mom and Dad have figured out a way to tether my leash to a piece of metal near the cashew tree beside the front of the Child Center. If they fix my leash in just the right place I can jump up in the tree and play around without getting my leash tangled up. Meri has a little boy that she brings to work with her everyday; his name is Hakim. He always forgets that I am around and he comes out in the yard; when he sees me he is frightened and starts to cry hysterically; the worst part is that he freezes and someone has to come and get him! Of course I don’t help matters because when I see him I just go to the end of the leash and stare at him!
Mom is annoyed with me! You know how much I like to chew chewing gum; well I climbed in Mom’s shirt to take a nap and somehow I lost my gum inside her clothes. I never mentioned it but the next morning when Mom woke up her armpit was stuck together! Hee! Hee! She found my gum! At first she thought something was wrong with her arm but as she picked off the sticky stuff she discovered it was chewing gum! She immediately blamed me!
We need a bubblegum tree!
Love, Skeeter
