The lumber has arrived!!! It not only arrived in Yendi but it arrived at the mission house. It has been off loaded at the jobsite and Donkey and Mr. Iddrisu are going to start dipping it tomorrow. This morning we worked on stitching together the plastic sheeting that will line the narrow pit Steve dug to hold the Dursban poison mixture. We struggled with the plastic today. The plastic comes in precut pieces and one piece was not long enough to cover the whole trough. After we got the first 2 pieces sewn together we walked to the back of the property to see how well it fit. It was too short so we came back to the mission house and added another section to it. We noticed it had a good sized hole. We figured that it got snagged while we were carrying it or I snagged it when I was sewing it so we got a couple pieces of that black Gorilla tape and patched the holes and added the third section to the plastic. The next time we tried it we noticed that there were multiple large holes in the plastic and that the 2 sheets of plastic were melted together. I told Steve that the plastic must have gotten up next to the light beside my sewing machine when we were stitching the pieces together. We did not have any more plastic sheeting at the mission house so we headed to town to buy more. While we were in town we stopped by the pharmacy and paid for the vitamin C that Steve bought yesterday and we gave Mr. Hayes, the pharmacist, the order for the medicine that we will need to run the Center while we are gone. When we got to the house I checked the bulb on my sewing machine and there was nothing melted on it. I noticed that the iron had fallen on the ground and it was covered with black melted plastic. I did not realize the iron was on while I was sewing. How to clean the iron is going to be a problem! The plastic worked and the trough is relatively level; it is ready for the guys to dip the boards tomorrow. We are going to hire a couple men to help Donkey and Mr. Iddrisu.
This afternoon Divine called and told us that he had located another pig for the seminar. Divine did the dickering for us so all we had to do was drive out to the village, approve the pig and pay for it.
Abochi, the carpenter has been released and he went to court today. He pleaded guilty of starting the brawl and apologized to the Concerned Citizens’ group. He could either pay a fine of 2,400 Cedis (about 240 dollars) or spend 6 months in jail. He was also told that he had to apologize to the Ya-Na and the elders of Dagbon. I am sure he will pay the fine; no one wants to spend time in a jail in West Africa.
Red stopped by this afternoon to pick up the money for the red local gravel he delivered earlier in the week. We still need a load of the rough gravel for the cement they will mix for the floor of the training center.
Thank you for the love, support and prayers.
In HIS Service,
Steve and Kandie
