= Sunday, the teacher asked me to lead the lesson on this week’s scriptures. Somehow, I did so, and did it well (with him translating), even though I had not created my own outline, etc. Steph said afterward that if she had not seen me receive that last-minute assignment, she would have assumed I had prepared thoroughly for it.
= We delivered medicine to a missionary in Moree.
= Home, we ate; we sang Christmas music - loudly! Steph has been journaling since January; each set of facing pages holds two weeks of short statements fitted around designs. Nice!
= Monday, Steph summarized text about medical issues. I worked to confirm where bicycles were; I documented our recent apartment visits; Kojo Dadson picked up our truck for repair. I chose Thursday as the date for Ghana Non-citizen card renewal (having lost Wednesday due to my not following up sooner).
= Tuesday, the ground polytank that feeds our compound was empty. We had set aside water for such a time and gave two jugs of water to the Elders next door. I documented routes to a couple of apartments. Kojo kept the truck to work on the steering. Office Elders brought jugs of water to the Elders next door.
= Wednesday, at the office, I dropped off donated shirts I had washed, moved new malaria test kits to the server room to be near the rest of the medical supplies, and filled and carried two jugs of water from the borehole spigot to our truck for us to use. We hunted for medication for missionaries and ran errands. At almost 4, a call came that the immigration team could not be here tomorrow, could we handle Friday? We had agreement from all, including that team, before 5 [whew!].
= An Elder from next door came in bleeding; he had run his shin into a pointed object. The wound probably won’t need stitches, and it looked like blood had cleaned the wound.
= Thursday, we picked up bikes from the office. The new "Ready" tags Steph created for repaired bikes look good. the road to Otuam is getting worse. We loaded the two worst bikes into the truck and did an apartment visit.
= We hunted for medication, then dropped some off at a missionary apartment. At the office, we received new laptops! We and our successors will use these; not everyone travels with personal laptops.
= Friday, the Ghana Non-citizen card renewal was planned to take place at the Ola chapel. Realizing we would have little to do during the process, we brought laptops. I documented our Otuam visit. Food arrived after noon. The team from Accra was ready to begin after 1. (Traffic from Accra had been tough.) The team was done by 4.
= We bought a big bucket of KFC for date night; we picked up medication and candy. I filled a jug at the office to bring home. Home, there was no power, but as I prepared to start the generator, the power came back on. I ran the generator anyway to test it and charge its battery.
= Date Night: KFC and ice cream with chocolate chip cookies. Episodes of Wednesday; Star Trek - Next Generation. We relaxed.
= Saturday, I arranged folders on the mission OneDrive to support what I do. After 6 our time, we learned that our middle daughter, Michelle, has completed her endowment in the Fort Lauderdale Temple! We’re happy and grateful. This is wonderful. Words fail to express our emotion.
To church
Me
Breakdown
Gnarly tree
Signs similar to these went up shortly before the mid-year celebration. The lady pictured is the Vice-President of Ghana.
Where next? This is at the side of a busy street.
Are U God? Ventures
Sunday morning
Angels Power
Want to buy a potted plant? Call the number; no one is attending these.
Serious cooking wood
Sunday football {soccer}
Uphill
To church?
More Sunday football
Believe
More Sunday football
To church
Nicely dressed
If it's a good day, there's water.
Heading home
Heading home
Trying to dry laundry
Cattle call
Heading home
Heading home
A local restaurant, Becky Kay, says it supports a foundation. These buildings are an example of that support.
Those who can afford propane use it instead of wood, but I had the recent thought that wood is (technically) renewable; propane is not. [Something that has helped is more-efficient wood stove designs.]
Heading home
Heading home
It's nice to be nice
Someone more knowledgeable than I can tell us why what looks like an engine puller needs this much instrumentation.
Awoɔ Yɛ {We are born}
Steer your kid by the head
In a world made of cement, these won't stay idle long.
Heading home
Thank you Jesus
Jah {Jehovah} alone
Still Praise God
Some wood covered, some not
We passed this after dropping off medicine in Elmina. We need to visit here during the week.
It has a store, and *parking*.
Enti deɛn {So what}
Apparently, carrying a flag in your mouth is a "thing" here.
My favorite farmer
By the time we notice a crop, it has usually fallen over, and a plant only produces once.
Hoping for more
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I've been spotted
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Ants found her when she brushed against a leaf.
Ingredients include a half can of fake spam, shredded; mushrooms; and rice; with fig jam and other seasonings.
Dance
..
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Supper
The secret ingredient is red cabbage with apple (from a jar).
The hallway smoke detector was installed backwards, in my opinion. When you twist the detector counter-clockwise to remove it, the tendency is to also remove the bracket. To counteract this, I added toothpicks. (Perhaps putting the screws in the innermost indentations would have avoided this problem.)
Like Mounds, only milk chocolate instead of dark chocolate
Getting some exercise, we saw this on a side road as we walked uphill from the mission compound. The drain extends before and after this road but doesn't seem to cross under it sufficiently.
Beautiful plants you see in Winn-Dixie or Publix grow here.
I guess there's no use for counted ballots long after an election. This does remind me, though, that the whole process depends on the integrity of poll workers and has to be a process they understand and can monitor. Short voting intervals are best, for their sake and ours. Computers can lie; marking paper ballots that can be re-counted is still the most reliable way to make our vote heard. (Remember, I'm a certified computer security expert.)
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Nice apartment, perhaps with plans for the future.
The dirt removed for the building across from the Audit facility looks like a mountain from this perspective.
Office Elders delivering to the "Big House" next door.
To cut up a pineapple, carve off the top and sides
And clean up what's left
If you're cleaning watermelon for yourself, this method works. (If you're serving a crowd, turn the halves face down instead and cut through the rind; guests can hold the rind while they eat.)
I tried to catch runoff from the roof for use in flushing toilets; we got some.
Dumping from the bucket to the narrow-neck jug. The tape is our reminder that this is flushing water, not water for washing.
The runoff bin for the Elders next door did a little better..
..
We put the lid back on when the rain stops.
The ground polytank was effectively empty. So, catching water for flushing was desirable
The way you cook eggs makes a difference.
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One set was deliberately scrambled.
I carelessly left grease on these dishes, and the rain drove tiny ants indoors, where they found it. (Easily dealt with, just a reminder to wash more thoroughly, and to spray window entrances from time to time.)
It looks like the symbol for a communications company, but it's a lollipop.
The water meter; just a reminder that we need it.
Bamboo has been stockpiled to temporarily support the next level.
The maintenance person removed the left rear parking sensor in order to get an exact match to replace the right rear sensor (that apparently works, go figure).
Oh Onipa Ba {Oh, Son of Man}
Praise Him
Carrying
Destiny
Say this without thinking of a certain icy continent.
Nothing is above God
Nyame Ayɛ {God has done}
Major junctions are busy places.
A bike has been repaired and is ready to go out again.
Shameless
All selling the same things on this hill..
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= Home, we ate; we sang Christmas music - loudly! Steph has been journaling since January; each set of facing pages holds two weeks of short statements fitted around designs. Nice!
= Monday, Steph summarized text about medical issues. I worked to confirm where bicycles were; I documented our recent apartment visits; Kojo Dadson picked up our truck for repair. I chose Thursday as the date for Ghana Non-citizen card renewal (having lost Wednesday due to my not following up sooner).
= Tuesday, the ground polytank that feeds our compound was empty. We had set aside water for such a time and gave two jugs of water to the Elders next door. I documented routes to a couple of apartments. Kojo kept the truck to work on the steering. Office Elders brought jugs of water to the Elders next door.
= Wednesday, at the office, I dropped off donated shirts I had washed, moved new malaria test kits to the server room to be near the rest of the medical supplies, and filled and carried two jugs of water from the borehole spigot to our truck for us to use. We hunted for medication for missionaries and ran errands. At almost 4, a call came that the immigration team could not be here tomorrow, could we handle Friday? We had agreement from all, including that team, before 5 [whew!].
= An Elder from next door came in bleeding; he had run his shin into a pointed object. The wound probably won’t need stitches, and it looked like blood had cleaned the wound.
= Thursday, we picked up bikes from the office. The new "Ready" tags Steph created for repaired bikes look good. the road to Otuam is getting worse. We loaded the two worst bikes into the truck and did an apartment visit.
= We hunted for medication, then dropped some off at a missionary apartment. At the office, we received new laptops! We and our successors will use these; not everyone travels with personal laptops.
= Friday, the Ghana Non-citizen card renewal was planned to take place at the Ola chapel. Realizing we would have little to do during the process, we brought laptops. I documented our Otuam visit. Food arrived after noon. The team from Accra was ready to begin after 1. (Traffic from Accra had been tough.) The team was done by 4.
= We bought a big bucket of KFC for date night; we picked up medication and candy. I filled a jug at the office to bring home. Home, there was no power, but as I prepared to start the generator, the power came back on. I ran the generator anyway to test it and charge its battery.
= Date Night: KFC and ice cream with chocolate chip cookies. Episodes of Wednesday; Star Trek - Next Generation. We relaxed.
= Saturday, I arranged folders on the mission OneDrive to support what I do. After 6 our time, we learned that our middle daughter, Michelle, has completed her endowment in the Fort Lauderdale Temple! We’re happy and grateful. This is wonderful. Words fail to express our emotion.
Someone more knowledgeable than I can tell us why what looks like an engine puller needs this much instrumentation.
[literally: birth is, but that makes less sense]
[Adding "Still" to an existing phrase is a meme here.]
(This road is on the way to a dump; stuff falls out of the trucks.)
[Frequent phrase: God has done it]
No Size = {One Size Fits All}
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[squid, ready to eat]
(Ghanaian pineapples are whiter and sweeter than what we see in the States - we'll miss them - but they don't travel well and go from ripe to overripe quickly.)
If you can't buy in quantity, you'll pay more. Harry Golden once remarked that the poor pay more for everything. Google him.
[Jesus is our elder brother]
DStv uses satellite dishes; GOtv uses regular antennas. We see dishes everywhere.
To bathe, you dip from from a bucket with a mug and then use your free hand as the shower head to direct the water onto yourself. A TV spot from India (!) describes the process.
[Paired with mention of Masada, a fortress, where a Jewish splinter group was defeated three years after the Romans destroyed the second temple.]
The violent traffic bumps at the next major intersection back up traffic the equivalent of several city blocks as some vehicles slow for the impact and others jockey for position.
Wednesday
Michelle, our middle daughter, with Drew, our youngest grandson, at the Fort Lauderdale Florida Temple, where Michelle received her endowments this week!
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