By 8am Ben and I had played in the car, installed a new AC belt and played with a chameleon. Had to
make a quick trip to town for bread since we didn't have any food in the house after all our
travels. Then it was a pleasantly slow morning, only one person dropped by - a stranger asking for
money. I went to town for a big shopping trip where I spent about $16 total on groceries. Ben and
mom played around while I fixed some curtain rods that had pulled out of the wall.
Spent a few hours in the afternoon changing the oil in our truck. This involved 3 trips to town
for various reasons such as "Oh, I need TEN liters of oil, not five." and "Uh-oh, how am I going to
get that filter off." (Just letting the engine cool did the trick.) Having 4WD is nice - just drive
up on a big rock, no messing around with a ramp. (Actually I did try a ramp but underestimated the
weight of the truck so it just bent.)
Played some more with Ben. (The kid has a crazy amount energy - our gardener was telling us the
other day how much he ran around the entire morning without stopping.) Went for a walk in the
evening and Carla picked a bouquet of wildflowers. We had an early supper which was VERY nice and
Ben got to bed early and we watched "The Fugitive".
On Sunday morning Carla gave me a haircut and got ready to go to church but then we just decided
to stay home. Carla made pancakes for breakfast and we listened to a sermon by Richard Rohr. Also
arranged our furniture a bit - we just got some living room furniture that we had ordered in January.
I played outside a lot with Ben - climbing trees, riding his tricycle, tipped over rocks looking
for millipedes - while Carla cooked up some Indian food since we were having our first "real" guests
over. Curry, rice, even dal! with all the toppings - it was delicious! It was also not too far
from a regular Tanzanian meal of chapatis, stew and rice - though putting the fresh tomatoes,
cucumbers, pineapple and yogurt on the curry was a bit strange for them. They are an older couple
that has very naturally taken us under their wing. We drop by for Ben to herd the cows or play
around and they come by with their twin grandchildren. She also delivers fresh milk to us every
morning.
Then we went to work on Monday morning only to find out that it was a national holiday! So we
had the morning to catch up on emails and take care of work stuff that had been put off.
So that was our very nice weekend.
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sounds very homey and nice
"tumpassarao" being Kara :-) It's very nice to read about how things are going for you guys . . .
We're counting days until we're experiencing some of these fine weekends with you -- though perhaps it's Ben's boundless energy that we really want to check out!
I have know idea how Matt said that because he's at his place asleep! And I'm enjoying the wee hours of the morning in the basement typing on a computer that I never expected to use very much, but for which I am now very grateful. So how could Matt have said that last comment? And this one?
Though it certainly wasn't ME who said that, because I would definitely have none how to spell correctlier. Y M I on Matt's computer when I'm in my own basement?
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