Wednesday, 21 October 2009

Wow!  Seems like it's been forever since I posted to the blog.  Sorry about that.  Things have been a little helter skelter around here.
 
We've been enjoying the weather as it is cooling off a bit.  The high temps are coming down as the days march into our cold season.  This morning, for example, it was 78 degrees outside.  It was overcast.  We loved it!  Reminded us of a typical summer day in Seattle.  The biggest plus for days like this is that we can go without power for a longer period of time.  Today, we kept the power off for almost 3.5 hours.  That's good when you consider that we've begun printing our own money to help pay our electricity bills.
 
We all got new Chadian Visas.  Had to.  Old ones ran out on the 17th of October.  They're good for 1 year.  Now, we've got to get new Cameroonian Visas.  They're good for 1 year also.  Was gonna get that taken care of this week until I realized that I don't have any more pages in my passport.  Gotta go get new pages.  Anybody ever done that?  Process here seems to be pretty straight forward.  Just fill out the form and go to the Embassy.  (Wonder if they'll let me swim in their pool?)
 
Have noticed that the family is getting a little annoyed with the various puppies and kittens running around (or should I say, UNDER) our feet.  Janice decalared this morning:  Ok, they're big enough now to give away.  I think we've got takers for all of the dogs and most of the cats.  They are cute but I'll be glad to see them go.
 
We've received several care packages in the recent week.  Thanks to all of you who've sent them.  They are truly a blessing.  The kids even think up all kinds of creative reasons to go to town just so "we can check the mail box while we're there".
 
Have a great day.
 
sf