This, That and Other Things

Aug 16, 2010,

Can’t remember is I’ve relayed this one.  Morgan had a phone conversation with Mavine the night she was in Mbita.  Here is Morgan’s side (as best I remember)

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Hello,

Hello.  Is this Eunice?

No.  Mavine.

Hi Mavine

Where are you?

In the toilet.

Yes the toilet.

No, I can not smell it.

No Mavine, this is a phone.  I can only hear you.  I can not smell the toilet.

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The kid has an inquisitive mind.

Even though Joyce is no taller here in Mbita then she is in Beaverton, she is easier to spot on a crowd.  I think it is the ponytail she is often wearing.  It could be the white hat.

Many cockroaches have seem to succumb to the dudu dust even though my prime target was the ants.  The ants seem under control right now as well.

Brinkley (the annoying cat) caught a little mouse in the house the other day.

We’ve now thrown three frogs from the house.

Joyce is back from Nairobi with the 8th grade class.  Trip was good and they made the last ferry of the day – just barely.

It got a little lonely without her and I went into a bit of a funk for a couple days – even after she was back.  I was feeling like – been here long enough.  I’d be okay with us going home anytime now.  That has passed for the most part.

Attended a football (soccer for you Americans) tournament over the weekend.  Talk about dysfunctional.  15+ teams and they expected to complete it in one day on one field.  Of course the 8am start time slipped a little, to something past noon.  I thought a fight was going to breakout when the refs started to leave while the sun was still up (about 6:20pm).  The Ref finally came back onto the field for one more match about 30 minutes before sunset.  I left at that time.  Only one of the 2 teams I came to see got to play.

Someone I’ve never heard of (that is Steve did not tell me about) just came buy for transportation money to go to Kisumu for diabetes treatment.  Fortunately the guard spotted the man’s name on a note stuck to the board.  I let him have $10 for the journey.

The dogs are chewing up the day bed pad in the room they sleep in.  They’ve done it twice.  As far as we know they had not done it before.  So the pad’s now need to sleep in another room so the dogs can’t get to them.

The tomatoes are coming, the tomatoes are coming.  And will be coming out our ears soon with all they Steve planted before he left.  Good thing we like them.  Yumm salsa.  And Joyce got more garlic for us, so yumm, yumm.

No pineapples for over 3 weeks.

We have a house guest for the week.  Jenny is her name.  A speech therapist.  Been working in Nairobi for a while, but thinking of doing her work in the Mbita / Kisumu area.

The best pictures as still being missed.  Like the camel in Mbita, giving rides for 20 ksh.  It looked pretty pathetic, but would have been a good picture.  And the one of the motorbike carrying a couch and 2 chairs down the road.

And even with a camera, it still sometimes does not do justice to the scene.  Like the sounds that go with a sunset.  Or the real expanse and wonderment of the hundred lights on the lake at night, from the fishermen trying to attract the bugs to attract the fish.  Like trying to show the wonderment of stars on a postcard.  I’d really like to have camer-aroma.  Some of the pictures would have totally different impact if you could smell the aromas (or stink) that is involved.

Time to look at more pictures from the other camera.

Paul