{"id":171,"date":"2008-10-18T05:33:31","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T10:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swaziland2008.mcguireclan.org\/?p=171"},"modified":"2014-06-01T13:21:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T18:21:16","slug":"saturday-18-october-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 18 October 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Lizard<\/a>

Lizard Eggs beside a AA Battery<\/p><\/div>\n

After our late night last night,\u00a0we slept in til almost 8 am this morning.\u00a0 For the past several days the hot water for our shower has been gradually getting colder each day, and Virginia got a chuckle from Lorraine when she told her that our shower no longer had therapeutic value.\u00a0 After borrowing a ladder and meter, and donning my trusty LED headlamp, I climbed into the attic to get to the water heater.\u00a0 Upon opening the cover for the heating element and thermostat, seven lizard eggs fell out.\u00a0 This is Africa!\u00a0 Quickly assessing that the eggs were not the problem, attention began to focus on some slightly overheated wires on the thermostat which proved intermittent.\u00a0 Being Saturday with most shops closing at 1 pm, a quick 4 mile drive was made into Manzini with Lorraine’s car. My first time to drive on the left side of the road since 1999 went without incident!\u00a0 After the initial shock of paying E105for a new thermostat, I determined with the latest exchange rate the actual cost was only about $11.\u00a0 The water heater was quickly repaired and therapeutic value restored!<\/p>\n

While I worked on the water heater, Virginia did our laundry and hung it on the line to dry.\u00a0 Drying did not take long in this warm, dry climate with a little breeze.<\/p>\n

One of the church ladies from further down our dirt road picked Virginia up for the ladies meeting this afternoon where she met many more women that she had not seen for 9 or maybe 19 years.\u00a0 While she was away, I walked around the TWR property known as “Signing Pines” because of sound made the very tall pine trees in the wind.\u00a0 I took lots of photos of flowers and plants that are not common in Indiana.<\/p>\n

We had been invited out to the transmitter site for supper with the work group and the Stavropouloses.\u00a0 I had moved Lorraine’s car out of the garage, closed up the house and set the alarm system.\u00a0 When I went to the bungalow to wait for Virginia, I began to feel very light headed and lay down on the bed.\u00a0 By the time Virginia arrived, it was obvious that we would not be going to the site as I was too dizzy to even stand up.\u00a0 After a couple of quick trips to the bathroom, I began to feel a little better but was still unsteady.\u00a0 Climbed into bed about 6pm and fell asleep.\u00a0 Upon getting up briefly about 11 pm, I was still a bit wobbly, but by morning I felt almost normal.<\/p>\n

What caused this?\u00a0 We are speculating that it was not some exotic African bug, but granola that I had eaten for breakfast.\u00a0 Granola had been one of my favorite breakfast foods but many years in the past it began to cause heartburn.\u00a0 Figuring that a Tums tablet would take care of any discomfort, it was not realized that my reaction to it seems to have risen to a whole new level after years of not eating any!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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