{"id":2023,"date":"2016-05-14T08:59:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T13:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2016-05-15T11:10:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T16:10:21","slug":"__trashed-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/?p=2023","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, May 10 – Friday, May 13 and Saturday, May 14"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The solar dryer works great. I would recommend one. This is where I hang my wet clothes. The tree house keeps most of the sun off the clothes, but the wind can still help them dry and lessen the wrinkles..<\/p><\/div>\n

Tuesday was a cool pleasant day after the rain of the day before.\u00a0 I was able to get the keys for the house we moved out of and do laundry.\u00a0 I am thankful I just have to walk up the hill to the neighbors and not go to the river. \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 It is good exercise to walk to the other house to put the laundry in to wash, walk back when it is done and then hang the clothes on the line.\u00a0 The washers do a great job of washing and wringing out the clothes.\u00a0 They are all front loading and from my experience, they do a better job.\u00a0 Most of the settings on the machine take 90 minutes to 2 hours to complete.\u00a0 All that swishing helps get the clothes cleaner, too.\u00a0 The machines also have a timer so you can see how much time is left on the washing cycle.<\/p>\n

Larry was able to download the program he needed for his drawings which has really been a blessing!\u00a0 It makes it so much easier, especially since he did not have proper drawing equipment to do it by hand.<\/p>\n

Friday, James Burnett, from our offices in Johannesburg, located a company that can\u00a0 make the needed pieces.\u00a0 Larry has been busy today, Saturday, getting the specs ready to send to the company for them to look over. Larry spent a lot of time looking around Swaziland for a company that could do the job, but with no success.\u00a0 This company can make the holes with a laser cutter and do the bends in the aluminum\u00a0 and have the parts ready to use. What an answer to prayer!<\/p>\n

Tuesday afternoon, Katja and I visited some local friends who are in poor halth.\u00a0 He has advanced cancer and she recently suffered a stroke and is wheel chair bound and cannot talk.\u00a0 She has use of one hand.\u00a0 This couple knows and love the Lord.\u00a0 They have been active in the community and church.\u00a0 When we lived in Swaziland, he ran one of the local meat markets.\u00a0 He was always busy.\u00a0 His wife has taught school for years and it is not unusual to run into someone who had her for a teacher in school.\u00a0 She also taught Sunday School, and one of her pupils was one of our sons, who, apparently, gave her a hard time and did things like hiding under the table.\u00a0 He was a deacon at the church.\u00a0 Those are just a few of the things I know of.\u00a0 Pray for this couple, their children and their families.<\/p>\n

Thursday morning, Larry and I attended TWR staff meeting in town.\u00a0 After staff meeting Larry had some companies to visit about purchasing parts for the antenna upgrade.\u00a0 While he did that, I did some grocery shopping.\u00a0\u00a0 While he was waiting for\u00a0 quotes to be calculated, we stopped by a shop so I could buy some gum boots for taking care of the chickens.\u00a0 The grass has been very wet with dew in the mornings and\u00a0 my shoes were always wet.\u00a0 Then, of course, there is always the fact that I have to walk in the chicken pens and that also made gum boots a good idea.<\/p>\n

In the afternoon Larry went to Matsapa to check out some leads of places who might be able to make parts or have parts that are needed.\u00a0 That was before he found out about the place in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n

Friday, I caught up on things around the house and Larry went to the transmitter site.\u00a0 It was a beautiful\u00a0 quiet day.\u00a0 I wrote 13 postcards.<\/p>\n

Saturday,\u00a0 we ran into town early to pick up some chicken feed.\u00a0 I still had some, but it was the bottom of the bag and was mostly dust.\u00a0\u00a0 Those little hens need to lay more than one egg a day!<\/p>\n

Larry is working on the antenna upgrade drawings and I cooked for Sunday. Another pleasant day.<\/p>\n

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The front door of the house where we are staying<\/p><\/div>\n

We have been so blessed with lovely weather, beautiful sun rises and sun sets.\u00a0 If you ever see photos of Africa with the red or golden-red sky, that is what it often looks like.\u00a0 Beautiful.<\/p>\n

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