Yesterday I was not able to post, so I am writing for two days.

Yesterday started our pretty much as a normal day.  I had slept all night for the first time since our arival here. I feel so much better after a good night’s sleep.  It was misty and cool in the morning, but quickl warmed up. I had my devotions in our room with the window open and then decided that I could move to the screened in porch at the main house.  I sat there to write post cards. After I finished the cards, we went to town and stopped by the post office.  I got the stamps without even standing in a que. and they even had the stamps.  Quite different from 20 years ago.

While writing my post cards, I was watching the bird bath. I was so happy to observe a Purplecrested Loerie or Turaco. This bird has a  purple crest with dark blue and green on its body.  The wings are bright red.  The Swazi royalty use these featherss for their hair.  It is a large bird.

Yesterday we also did more shopping for the big meals next week.  We came home to make dinner only to learn two guests were coming to spend the next few nights.   We were expecting them for dinner but not for the night. They are two missionaries from England with CLC (formerlyChristian Literature Crusade).  One is a long time friend of the Stavs.  We also had a TWR missionary from Johannesburg at the meal.

Today we went to the transmitter site to do some cleaning.  I got to drive aToyota Venture. It was fun to drive on the dirt roads and use a stick shift again :-).  Larry hasn’t driven here yet.

While at the site, I cooked up the meat for next week and walked over the suspension bridge.  It’s a long bridge and fairly high.

I had a look at the transmitter building and it is looking very nice with the new transmitter and other improvements.  I was quite impressed with the look of it all.  While there, I walked past a door with all kinds of gadgets around it and as I walked past, the door slid open all by its self. I thought perhaps a mad scientist lived behind that door, but it was only Hans Van Kampen.  He  had rigged up the door with an eye of some sort that  opened the door whenever anyone walked by.  He was also quite proud of the robot that he had built.  It manuvered quite well and he had a camera mounted on it,  but the camera was not working yet. I don’t know what his plans are for it.

We stopped by the Christian Bookstore to pick up some cards and happened to meet Dr. Hynd there.  He was our doctor for many years.  We will be having dinner with him next week.  He is full of stories of the history of Swaziland, having grown up here.  He is now about 84 years old.  It was good to see him.

Lorraine and I took a chair and a stool to the Manzini Manzini Industrial Training Center to be repaired.  It took 30 minutes for them to recover the stool and fix the chair.  It cost about $10 and that included the foam and fabric for the stool.  They did a good job.

The wildlife for today was a lizard and a Guinea fowl.