The next hurdle

Sue came back from Kampala without the container. The newest twist is that they have decided that books are taxable so they are going to determine how much we owe and send us the bill then we have to attend the yard Monday morning to open the container for them to see. Sounds a little backwards, and they asked for me! My guess here is the bill for the government - oh! white guy here is my hand to be covered.

John, the contractor, came buy with his team on Friday and inserted the new window in the wall. Unfortunately it is two feet too low as they found the main support lintel in the middle of the wall instead of above the old ventilation holes so it couldn't be removed. The kids will be able to crawl over and look out and there is a security grill over it that will hold them in. The window will be painted and fill with glass on Sunday.

Our garden is doing remarkable. The tomato and chard seeds have already sprouted since the girls are watering them every morning and they hot sun all day. We will have to thin them out by next week as Kyanja was a little liberal on spreading the seeds in the trench.

Today I saw a 5 - 6 year old boy herding a pig along the road. With the 8 and 5 year old's herding the cattle (8) along the the side of the highway it sure makes you wonder how fast they must grow up. One evening we saw a 13 year old girl using an old bike tire as a hula-hoop and Sue remarked that is what girls should be allowed to do!

Today is Chris' last day as she is returning home. With Madeleine, Shalan and Chris returning to husbands and families and Sue moving to Maama Watali, I will be the last in the guest house as it is being renovated and all customers have left. It will be interesting to see what my breakfasts are as Sue usually has to intervene every day for something.

I have run out of jobs at the house, best I could come up with is buying a push broom to clean up after the demolition of the wall. Even the broom was sub-standard but the girls like it and would like a mop with a long handle so they don't have to use a rag on their knees to clean the entire floor. I am going to try and make one for a project today out of the broom handle and some t-shirts. A project - yeah - since I am running out of books.