The way it goes

The past few days have been frustrating to say the least.  I can’t really get into it all because honestly it would take a couple pages to fill you in.  Briefly however, One thing was dealing with medical issues (not ours but a workers wife is...

Lights out

Yesterday we were out of electricity at home all day.  Just as I turned on the computer it went out.  So what to do? First I worked out the back of a cereal box This is an unusual item at our home as it is quite expensive (between $8-12 a box) but on our last trip to...

More ups and one down

Let me say right off the bat….this is a long post, sorry but it tells a story. As I wrote yesterday we had a few ups on our recent trip to Nairobi with one down.  After getting the issue with KP&L taken care of Chuck got on the phone with the NGO council....

Read the meter please!

Kenya Power & Lighting (KP&L) gave us a bill in October charging us 1000 units above what we actually used (we are charged per unit used of electricity).  Chuck called them several times to get someone to come and actually read the meter….each of the six...

Christmas in Tala

Honestly it doesn’t even seem to be the holiday season.  No Christmas music blaring in the store (the one grocery store we have in town), no lights strung up anywhere, certainly no snow (although that isn’t a necessity since we lived in Phoenix!) and no...

Vertigo, migraine, teenagers

That pretty much sums up my Friday and Saturday! Vertigo – had this all day Friday Teenagers – Chuck and I raised two girls and two boys through their teenage years (thank you God for helping us with that!) and I think I have a pretty good idea of how...

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