Wednesday
June 12, 2013
Last nite
was a no internet nite and perhaps today will be the same. The local provider
is Safaricom and it seems they’re having some troubles....
The side
roads in Bungoma town are something to behold. Holes are simply filled with
large rocks and huge bricks in any old way. Driving on these roads is something
like those old fanny shakers – you know, you stood up, put that big rubber
strap across your butt and shake baby shake! Such are these roads!
The people
continue to be beautiful and surprising and sweet.
Our current
co-op of barely post-teenage women, all with small children, found half a dozen
ways to skin the cat of a cheaper chicken roof (cheaper than corrugated iron),
many of which were ingenious, like using locally weaved mats or corn stalks. My
bride’s suggestion of chicken wire covered with banana leaves was also a
winner!
Tuesday June
11, 2013
The most
persistent sound at the farm here in Kabula is the water well hand pump.
It starts
and stops intermittently at say 4 am and maybe rests around 10 at night.
Now, in the
mid afternoon, it’s never given a rest.
What a
luxury piped in water is!
I
particularly remember this luxury as I haul two buckets of water from the well,
one for wash, the other for rinse, of the last few days clothes.
This
morning, as we met with the third and final micro business of my short tenure
here, I learned of bats with bodies as big as human heads that swoop down on
unroofed chicken coops and carry off whole, squawking chickens!
Do they
turn into Bella and her dead guy boyfriend when they get to where they’re
going??
Maybe I
better put off star gazing until daylight hours....
This
conversation came up because the gals have started a poultry business and have
a bunch of chickens, but, the chicken house is roofless and corrugated iron for
a roof is very expensive.
Tonight’s
homework: figger out a cheaper roof!
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