bet you didn't know...

"bled" = bread

bread can also = cake

"fly" = fry

Kenyans like to use the word "alight" for when you arrive somewhere in a car or matatu. For the longest time I thought they were saying "arrive"

Sometimes when you try to bake cookies in a solar cooker you end up with a cake

One of the best ways to be traumatized on a weekly basis is to have recurring nightmares about crocodiles stalking you from unseen places

Kenyans have an addiction to their Mexican soap operas that are reeeeeeeally poorly dubbed with voices that do NOT match the characters appearance whatsoever and have plots where people are always deceiving someone, someone's baby has been kidnapped, someone is in the hospital and someone who just got out of the hospital is finding their estranged mother for the first time while in the background everyone is eavesdropping on everyone else while they have very private conversations

Kenyan puppies are lactose intolerant (makes me love them even more)

If you ever want a nice, little self-esteem boost, owning two puppies who adore you will really do the trick

Mexican marigolds are good repellents for harmful pests like aphids

Even sunflower transplants can die from too much sun right after being transplanted

In Rwanda street kids yell "give me my money" at you. In Kenya they say "give me our food" Interesting difference

When Peris plants in the shamba (garden), she can be wearing a skirt and nice blouse and finish looking like she has maybe one small speck of soil on her. When I plant, I'm rarely in a skirt and always end up looking like I had a mud fight with someone who literally kicked my ass- and my fingernails are black

I sold two puppies today for a grand total of $4. If the price had been any higher nobody would buy them

It's quite easy when harvesting flower seeds to accidentally mix seed from two different types of flowers that you could have sworn were the same. (Then again it's only flowers and it's not for research so I don't think the bees will care if they are mixed.)

I'm supposedly going to Nairobi next Tuesday for a training on solar cookers and solar cooker construction

Piglets need an Iron injection shortly after being born or they will die

To get rid of weevils, put your seeds in a shallow basket in the beating sun and shake it. They will all eventually fly away

After a couple of weeks, yogurt and peanuts become a really boring lunch

I like to use parentheses abusively and frequently (well, okay, i bet you did actually know that one)

There may or may not be a Tanzanian nun who disappeared on her way to Thika

G-BIACK had several goats drop dead because they had eaten plants contaminated with a chemical fertilizer used by the gigantic Del Monte empire.

The game of "What Might These People be Saying to One Another??" is still entertaining after the one month mark

Sorghum cooked with tomato and onions is seriously tasty and full of fiber and protein

Today I planted flower cuttings, tree seeds and 5 sunflower seedlings. The Sunflowers went in row "K" of our 40 bed unit, naturally. Let's hear it for insectories!