Eyes to See, Ears to Hear

Riding out to a local playground brought us up behind this fellow… at least we think there was a fellow in there some where.  You should’ve seen how the bicycle frame bent when he went over bumps!

All three of us went out shopping today.  While Dana went into a store, I sat in the car and watched the happenings around me.  Just to give you a glimpse, here’s a common street scene in Mbeya:

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 [...]

One of the BIG benefits as I see it of living abroad as a missionary is discovering how resourceful you are, you need to be, and you can be.  For instance, I knew a decent amount about cars before coming to Tanzania.  But after numerous bad experiences with local car repair businesses, I decided to [...]

I’ve got a pastor friend here in TZ who recently left his rather large, electronically-well-equipped church because of a dispute.  I don’t know or understand the details of the parting, so I’m definitely not going to make a judgment of who I think is in the right or wrong.  This friend had followers leave the [...]

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’ 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 [...]