Yesterday I was not able to post, so I am writing for two days.<\/p>\n
Yesterday started our pretty much as a normal day.\u00a0 I had slept all night for the first time since our arival here. I feel so much better after a good night’s sleep.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 I sat there to write post cards. After I finished the cards, we went to town and stopped by the post office.\u00a0 I got the stamps without even standing in a que. and they even had the stamps.\u00a0 Quite different from 20 years ago.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 purple crest with dark blue and green on its body.\u00a0 The wings are bright red.\u00a0 The Swazi royalty\u00a0use these featherss for their hair.\u00a0 It is a large bird.<\/p>\n
Yesterday we also did more shopping for the big meals next week.\u00a0 We came home to make dinner only to\u00a0learn two guests were coming to spend the next few nights.\u00a0\u00a0 We were expecting them for dinner but not for the night. They are two missionaries from England with CLC (formerlyChristian Literature Crusade).\u00a0 One is a long time friend of the Stavs.\u00a0 We also had a TWR missionary from Johannesburg at the meal.<\/p>\n
Today we went to the transmitter site to do some cleaning.\u00a0 I got to drive aToyota Venture. It was fun to drive on the dirt roads and use a stick shift again :-).\u00a0 Larry hasn’t driven here yet.<\/p>\n
While at the site, I cooked up the meat for next week and walked over the suspension bridge.\u00a0 It’s a long bridge and fairly high.<\/p>\n
I had a look at the transmitter building and it is looking very nice with the new transmitter and other improvements.\u00a0 I was quite impressed with the look of it all.\u00a0 While there, I walked past\u00a0a 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.\u00a0 He\u00a0 had rigged up the door with an eye of some sort\u00a0that\u00a0 opened the door\u00a0whenever anyone walked by.\u00a0 He was also quite proud of\u00a0the robot that he had built.\u00a0 It manuvered quite well and he had a camera mounted on it,\u00a0 but the camera was not working yet. I don’t know what his plans are for it.<\/p>\n
We stopped by the Christian Bookstore to pick up some cards and happened to meet Dr. Hynd there.\u00a0 He was our doctor for many years.\u00a0 We will be having dinner with him next week.\u00a0 He is full of stories of the history of Swaziland, having grown up here.\u00a0 He is now\u00a0about 84 years old.\u00a0 It was good to see him.<\/p>\n
Lorraine and I took a chair and a stool to the Manzini Manzini Industrial Training Center to be repaired.\u00a0 It took 30 minutes for them to recover the stool and fix the chair.\u00a0 It cost about $10 and that included the foam and fabric for the stool.\u00a0 They did a good job.<\/p>\n
The wildlife for today was a lizard and a Guinea\u00a0fowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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