the fiasco known as: "the ATM ate my debit card!" occurs, yet at the end of the same day you have laughed hard with new friends (you even semi-made friends with the guy at the bank).
Dessert is homemade bread with honey in it.
Your work provides you with a feeling of purpose, inspiration and self-capability.
You're surrounded by people who eat, sleep and breathe principles you believe in (well the agricultural ones anyway).
Permission has been given to you to keep FOUR PUPPIES. I repeat. FOUR. PUPPIES. And you've already named your favorite one in Swahili.
Plans for 3 solar dehydrators are not only in the works but the materials for building have already been ordered.
Stomach AND toilet both seem to be functioning. This combination is truly incredible.
Gumboots and skinny jeans are your new standby outfit. Only to precede the inevitable gumboots and calf-length skirt look I am still figuring out how I feel about.
Practice run soil samples were a success. Such a soil nerd I could do that for hours.
Even the shower that turns from skin melting hot to complete goosebumps cold every 10 seconds seems to charm you somehow.
Your home is near a store that sells organic butternut squash at a price that allows you to buy TWO for about one dollar.
"To a worm in horseradish, the whole world is horseradish." Yiddish Proverb
4 comments:
I love this post! The titles of your blog posts are great.
I'm so glad you are feeling better.
Wow there is a lot going on at the center these days! So what is the puppy name??
Dad
Oh Kate... I laughed out so loud. It's so much fun to read your blogs! I'm so happy for you. FOUR. PUPPIES... eh? Yikes! Hugs, Momma
Yeah, so what is the puppy's name??? You left us hanging! Oh and inquiring minds would love to see captions on the pics you posted!
XO,
Lisa
the one pup i've named so far is a female called "Ni Ni". in Swahili "ni ni" is kind of used when someone is searching for what words they want to say, it can mean practically anything. she is the only one that doesn't cry when i hold her. she's black, has brown eyebrows, a white chest and a little bit of white at the end of her tail.
and Lis, the pictures are as follows:
1. the nursery where we start seedlings before transplanting them
2. Samuel teaching us a game called "fruit salad" (like musical chairs) at our team building meeting near Thika River at a place called Fourteen Falls about 3/4 of our staff cannot be seen in that photo
3. and 4. PUPPIES!!!
5. our seed bank at G-BIACK. basically one of my favorite places.
6. 5 piles of the most beautiful, perfectly constructed compost you will ever see in your life (mostly from the 40 bed unit that we slashed and are now planting in)
7. one side of my bedroom/the view from my bed.
more pics will come soon.
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