Animal area

Plans are in the making for our new animal shelter.  The group from Michigan, coming to visit in August, will be working on this. Yellow shows the existing “local cow” pen which will be moved to the end of this wall.  A wall will separate it from the road...

Latrine issues

This is going to be a potty post 🙂 First potty topic….work has progressed on an additional latrine and shower area.  Water will also be piped to this area for the shower….albeit a very cold shower! Next potty issue….we are working on a...

Another routine

Last week you were given a glimpse into a routine here…washing dishes. This week I’ll show you another routine…washing clothes.  I was actually going to put this on Sunday but internet and electricity was not cooperating (just like Saturday). We did...

Step away from the internet

This is our rescue kitty, Toothpick, and it’s exactly what I felt like doing pretty much as soon as I got out of bed this morning. It’s been one of those internet/electricity frustrating days.  We tried to skype with Tarrin (our eldest daughter), she...

Not feelin’ it

The last two days I have not felt much like posting.  I’m not really sure why, stuff has been happening here, just haven’t been up to it I guess.  So I’ll just give you snippets from the past few days. After Chuck and the guys moved ufobia (still...

Butter, how I miss ya’

The past few weeks we’ve had a very difficult time here in Tala getting milk, cheese and butter.  During a trip to Nairobi we were able to purchase a couple blocks of cheese but even there I couldn’t find butter.  I decided, while at Sunny Lucky (our local...

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