We took a different route on our walk this morning. We decided to walk further into town and go to the pharmacy that is in front of Red’s house. We needed to buy some anti-malaria medicine and some pain tablets for Donkey. Since Donkey has been moving blocks all week we know that he will need more pain medicine. We also decided to stop at Red’s house to see how he was coming with the doors for the bath houses. The mason wants to start them on Monday but he can’t start without the doors. Red had almost finished the doors. He still had to install the slide locks and paint them. He said that he was going to paint them today. They looked nice. We are afraid the mason will not know how to install them; Red said that he would go with us when we deliver the doors and explain how they need to be set.
As soon as we got back from our walk Zorash called and said that the Shea Butter was ready for us to pick up. We ended up getting 2 big calabash gourds of Shea Butter; about 5 gallons of Shea Butter. We are not out but we did not want to run out and by all indications the Shea nuts did not produce very well this year. Later in the year the price will go even higher so we are buying it now.
Steve and I have been stuck in the office all day! We counted money and made the payroll for the next 6 months! What a chore; a chore that had to be done and a chore that we are proud to have completed! We do this each time we leave to insure that the workers get their pay and money is there to pay the taxes and buy supplies as needed.
We talked to Divine today and he found a lady that has big pieces of firewood. We sent him the money for the wood; he is going to pay her for the wood so someone else does not get it. Divine said that we could pay him to load his motor king and take it out to Kulkpeni. I love this delegating business!
Steve is outside repairing the front right turn signal on the green truck. The nut vibrated off the bolt that is holding it in place. Yesterday when we delivered the sign board to Kulkpeni we noticed that it was just dangling by the wires; it is a wonder it had not fallen off and gotten run over! We did not have a nut or any real means of securing it; I found a piece of plastic,and used Steve’s pocket knife to cut an “X” in the plastic. I was able to screw the bolt into the plastic; it was just a temporary fix but at least it held until we got back to the mission house. That was my “MacGiver” moment.
Take care and have a great weekend1
In HIS Service,
Steve, Kandie and Skeeter
The Monkeyshines
I just want you to know that I did not get in trouble at all today! If there is a day that I am not in trouble for something or the other it is a good day! The main reason I did not get in trouble was because the parents were busy counting money and they did not realize exactly what I was doing so they could not get me in trouble. You know it is not really me that gets in trouble; it is the parents that get me in trouble!
Mom decided that she was going to try to dehydrate bananas. Dad cut up more apples and reserved part of the top shelf for Mom’s experiment. I was in the kitchen supervising the whole thing. She had to cut the bananas by hand; they were too soft to run through the cutter. She could not cut them very thin because they were trying to mush up when she dipped them in the lemon juice. At the end of the process she had a couple handfuls of bananas on the drying rack. She let them dry all day in the sun but when they brought the racks in this evening the apples were almost dry but those bananas looked like they had just been cut. They are going to take several days to dry and they will shrink so much that they will be unrecognizable! I guess they will be banana tidbits! I sure hope they taste good after all the work that has been put in on them!
Too much work to preserve a banana!
Love, Skeeter
