The Farm, Gravel, New Vehicle
Today a team of 7 young people, 20ish, came to spend a month exploring missions in Zambia. They will stay at "The Farm" where Ripley's the team leaders now live. (We live in their former house). It is a 45 minute drive from CT, (where we live), the last road into the countryside is a rough one! We gathered for lunch and a praise time, 35 people in all.
On the way to and from the farm we saw a road lined with women, some men, sitting in rocks pounding them by hand with a hammer. The gravel was piled in bigger piles by the road waiting for someone to buy it. Further out others gathered larger rocks in fields and carried them in. It is cool and pleasant now but I can't imagine this work in the heat and sun.
Keith has been test driving vehicles in hopes of finding one for us and to my surprise drove up in one tonight. He bought a 1990 Land Cruiser, very typical of Africa. It seats 8 and will help to alieviate some of the transportation situations with so many people coming and going. It's not as nice as our van back home but will hold up to the endurance testing vehicles get here. It has air cond. and seat belts, that's what I wanted.
No more rats but we still have healthly, smart mice. They keep eating the food out of the traps and laughing. We are trying hard to keep food in plastic containers and not give them anything to dine on. This is Keith's nightly duty, pest patrol.
On the way to and from the farm we saw a road lined with women, some men, sitting in rocks pounding them by hand with a hammer. The gravel was piled in bigger piles by the road waiting for someone to buy it. Further out others gathered larger rocks in fields and carried them in. It is cool and pleasant now but I can't imagine this work in the heat and sun.
Keith has been test driving vehicles in hopes of finding one for us and to my surprise drove up in one tonight. He bought a 1990 Land Cruiser, very typical of Africa. It seats 8 and will help to alieviate some of the transportation situations with so many people coming and going. It's not as nice as our van back home but will hold up to the endurance testing vehicles get here. It has air cond. and seat belts, that's what I wanted.
No more rats but we still have healthly, smart mice. They keep eating the food out of the traps and laughing. We are trying hard to keep food in plastic containers and not give them anything to dine on. This is Keith's nightly duty, pest patrol.
posted by Keith and Linda Stranberg at 2:17 PM
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