We have fooled around and fooled around and finally we got the drivers or whatever we needed downloaded onto the computer so we can use the new printer / scanner. We are beyond happy that we can finally use it; we were almost to the point of giving up buying a new printer.
Yesterday when we were in Tamale we had time to look around for baby strollers. We were lucky and we found 2. They are used but they will work out well when we get a mentally delayed baby or a crippled baby that cannot walk. By the time these special children are 3 and 4 years ago they get too heavy for the mother’s to carry them around on their backs.
We also found a used scale but the scale has a few issues. Steve has it torn apart and is trying to find nuts and wire that will work to fix it. The scale is pretty cool; Steve got a good enough internet connection this afternoon to look it up; he found one like it and it was advertised as a 1986 post office scale. It weighs in grams not ounces. Ghana was a British colony so they weigh things in grams and kilograms instead of pounds and ounces. They also measure in meters and centimeters. It is all rather confusing.
Red finished the doors for the bath houses at Kulkpeni. Dawda, the mason stopped by this afternoon to tell us what we needed to haul out to Kulkpeni so he can set the doors in tomorrow. The bath houses are made of cement so the openings for the doors have to be chiseled out before the doors can be cemented in.
We heard from Abochi, the carpenter, he said that the lumber was supposed to be in Yendi today. It will take them at least a day to off load the lumber and then he can pick out the lumber we will need for the roof. Part of the lumber has to be ripped to size and all of it has to be treated against termites so it will be several days before they can actually start roofing the training center.
Mr. Iddrisu and Donkey spent the morning harvesting the dirt from one of those huge termite mounds. The mason likes to mix the termite dirt with the cement to make a nice fine mix for plastering the buildings. I have often wondered why no one bothers to knock down the large termite mounds; I guess they are saving them for building projects.
Thank you for all you do for us and for the work. Please continue to pray for us.
In HIS Service,
Steve and Kandie
