Archive for November, 2009

Slip ‘n Slide

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

To arrive at our house it is advised to have 4WD.  After driving about 0.5 mi into the neighborhood (all rough dirt road) you descend into a small valley.  From there, the short, steep climb up to our house is about a 300 ft increase in altitude.  Remember… all dirt.  And what time of the [...]

Bustani

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

‘Bustani’ is Swahili for garden.  Now that rain time is here, we had our gardener load the ground with our favorite vegetable seeds.  The following are pictures of our garden area. Everything except trees, strawberries and pumpkins are at 5 days in the ground with nothing sprouting as of yet (UPDATE: looked at garden [...]

Coming color

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

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The rainy season has fueled our plants to start showing off how God made them.

Full Moon Rising

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

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The full moon coming up over Mbeya from the east.