No School Today

Today is a Muslim holiday so Sarah, Gus and Sami were off school.
SOOOO.... we spent the day shopping and working around the house installing a ceiling fan in the living room, a smoke/CO dectector, washing dishes, playing with the Wii and just plain relaxing. Gus is helping dad John. Sami & Gus are washing dishes. Corrie is slicing the largest pineabble I have ever seen. It was really sweet too.

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Shopping for Gifts

Right now we're about ready to sit down for lunch. It's 12:51pm here and 5:51a.m. in Texas. Today we went shopping for stuff to bring home. There are photos of the shops and their shop keepers and the lovely artistic crafts they sell. Really made here in Nigerian by artists who live here and make their living making these things.

Two other photos show "critters" for Reggie. One is a lizard on the back wall of the compound where we are staying with John and Corrie. The other is a spider waiting to take a shower with Sami Jane!

The man in the photo is Matthew who creates beautiful and unique table cloths with names on them and monogrammed napkins.

Another photo is of the many paintings available by local artists. I bought two.

Still another photo is of the roadside view as we traveled from shopping to home.

Busy and Fun Times

The internet is finally up and working better than ever. We ran 300 feet of new cable yesterday and an IT friend of John's help rework the connections and set up. We also added wiring for a 110V inverter circuit, an additional battery for the inverter system plus miscellaneous small projects around their living quarters. Watch for videos when we get home and are able to upload the big files.

We also made a trip to Our Lady of Apostles orphanage where we help babies, chatted with the children and I had an opportunity for the first time in fifty years to bring out my algebra skills. Boy was I surprised that I even remembered how to factor a simple binominal!

Yesterday was a baby shower for Evelyn, a friend of Emily Munifo's who is expected in the next ten days. There were gifts, which delighted Evelyn and a belly measuring contest using TP! It was a girl time!

Today I'm off to shop for a canning kettle to help Emily can tomato sauce and salsa whose ingredients are in abundance here.

New Day

No photos today and only a quick note. No power and internet for the last two days. Today we're sitting in the office at SSE office where we may access the inter.
I cooked supper last night. Chicken Tetrazinni..all loved it and had two helpings except for Gus who had three! Would love to hear from you, email is degucken@gmail.com

Sunday's Clippings

Today John and I had our hair cut by Atucum one of the young men who guard the house. He is in babering school learning the trade. Cutting batori's hair is a new experience for him. He did very well, the best hair cut I've ever had!

The Emperor's New Clothes

I want to thank all of you who have visited our blog and shared our adventure with us. Ihope my friend and collegue Paul M. from Donna has followed and the many others of you who enjoy connection throiugh the internet. Right now it is very warm in the hills of Jos (90+F). We had power for ten minutes yesterday and I am on line because son Joh is running the "gen" and Janson and Emily, their partners in ministry and close neighbors either have power or are running their "gen". You can follow both John and Corrie's blog as well as Jason and Emily's from our own blog. The photos today are of the new Nigerian outfits I had made at Gidon Bege, a ministry which teaches widows to sew and then sends them back to their village with a sewing machine to earn a living sewing.

I have two new outfits. I plan to save the white one for Easter Sunday at Donna, the light blue I'll wear to worship in the village church and at Donna.

Shara & Gus enjoy some quiet time playing favorite video ganes, too.