Hobbies

Garden update

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Trying to grow in more ways than one in Tanzania…

Meet Frank

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

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 [...]

Karibu saladi

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

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 [...]

I’ll be corny any day

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

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 [...]

Like a tiger

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

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Another interesting moth we found on our back doorstep.

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.

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.  [...]

Close to the Finish Line

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

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Finished Ruth & Jonah cassettes for distribution on Thursday