We were about to go to bed last night when Nazo, the day man, rang the doorbell. He said that the old lady that we buy bread from had sent us a gift. It was a gift that we have never gotten in all the time that we have lived in Ghana. It was a smoked dried rabbit! The hunters smoke them to preserve them. This one was so heavily smoked that it was black. I am so excited about the smoked dried rabbit; I can’t wait to eat it. Steve is not impressed! He said that it smells just like the smoked dried fish in the market! They broke the ribs and the hips of the rabbit so that they could splay it out flat so it would smoke and dry evenly. They put sticks through the arms and across the back to keep it flat during the drying process. I plan on having the ladies help me cook it tomorrow. I want to be sure to cook it the best way possible. I would hate to ruin such a fine gift. This was a very expensive gift for the bread lady to give us! She is poor and makes her living selling bread. I will be sure and give you a blow by blow description of its cooking process! We actually like rabbit. We usually have it fried but maybe smoked and dried will be good too. We stopped at the ladies shop this afternoon to tell her thank you for the gift. She does not speak English and we speak very little Dagboni but by the grin on her face we knew she got the message!
Aliu, the young man that lost his leg in a motor accident when he was a teenager came to the mission house this morning. We helped him get his original prosthetic leg in 2012; several years after the accident. He was riding as a passenger in a car when something happened to the front tire and the driver lost control of the vehicle and the car flipped. Aliu came this morning to see if we would help him with the transport to go down to Nsawam to have his prosthetic leg worked on. He said that it was making a strange noise and he wanted to get it fixed before it spoiled completely. Aliu is one of our success stories. He finished high school and went to tech school to learn how to repair cell phones. He works steadily and is not a beggar.
Gomda got the new tie rods for the truck; it is back up and running. This morning the clutch went out in the motor king. Mr. Iddrisu rides the clutch and almost every time that we have a building project to do he burns out a clutch. Solomon, the mechanic, came to the mission house and changed out the clutch. We hope that this new one lasts until we get done with the wall project.
Thanks for all you do! We appreciate you!
In His Service,
Steve and Kandie
