'Tis the Season

Happy Holidays everyone. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I had a wonderful one with all the kids in Central Province. We had turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, the works. That's pretty inpressive since we are about 100 k from the closest supermarket- and there was a turkey shortage in the whole country. Unfortunately Rocky our beautiful boxer passed away. He had heart problems and we think he had a heart attack. We buried him while and it was pouring. Poor Patton is the only dog left in our house. At least Rockey went with a lot of people who love him around. He was a beautiful dog.

In other news Jenn has been at my site- a lot. No it's good- I swear. She is going to help me put together a sweet fish club meeting on Monday and her dog, princess who is Winston's sister is over too and we are having to much fun. The puppies love each other. It is too cute. We have spent the last few days cooking, eating and eating some more. We have to much in common. All four of us.

We are harvesting 4 ponds in late January early Feb. and I am sure that 2 of the ponds have fish in them. One of them is even doing well. I hope I can coordinate the harvesting of 4 ponds and the stocking of six and a open market day at the same time. I think I am going to go insane. Things in the village are always more aggrivating then you can imagine. I had a ride from my house to Mkushi which should have taken 30 minutes at the very most take 4 hours and then we got a flat tire. Coordinating an even that is going to involve over a hundred people is going to be a challenge at the very least.

I'm excited.

I planted my guava tress and they are doing awesome next I'm going to plant bananna trees. As soon as I figure out how. Next week is going to be a little busier cause I have some meetings set up. I am meeting with the community headmen- all seven of them to discuss community wide programs like community cell phones which seem to be working in Bangladesh.

And then it is only 3 weeks till vacation.