Eyes to See, Ears to Hear

Trying to grow in more ways than one in Tanzania…

Stupid crows are finding that our garden is in the stage of producing.  Four corn cobs have lost their lives so something had to be done.  That’s where Frank comes in.
Around midday today, I took 5 sticks, an old pair of lounge pants, long sleeve shirt and a hat and created… Frank.  I asked our [...]

I was out shopping yesterday evening in town in a frequented store called Azra.  My market man (I text him my vegetable shopping list and he delivers to me at Azra) brought me my order right as I was checking out at the store.  He knew another customer who was there shopping and she asked [...]

There are many great types of vegetables available here in Mbeya.  Sometimes we can even find broccoli and zucchini.  Unfortunately, neither are my favorite.  My emotions bind me to one luscious vegetable.  I’ll put it in a magnificent 4-word + 2-word equation that almost causes me to faint with over-Plavlov-ness as my saliva bursts forth [...]

I have a Nokia 5000 and a Twitter account.  Sometimes, I like to send a tweet while on the run but for some reason recent changes un-verified my phone number here in Tanzania.  Took me about half an hour to track down how to verify it again, because the ‘Mobile’ [formerly 'Devices'] section in the [...]

Another interesting moth we found on our back doorstep.

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

The full moon coming up over Mbeya from the east.

This post has nothing to do with my mission work.  Just to let you know.
I’ve had a problem in trying to change notifications in the Skype Preferences pane (I’m using OS X, by the way).  But, every time I clicked on the red flag (Notifications), Skype would freeze for up to a minute, then crash.  [...]

Finished Ruth & Jonah cassettes for distribution on Thursday