The good news is that Roy’s getting rid of his mega toothache by having a root canal in Yaounde. The bad news is that he won’t be back home until Monday the 28th. It’ll be our first Christmas apart from …
What a delight our local church’s Sunday school’s Christmas program was! Joseph is the short one in the wild print and Mary is the tall one in the subdued blue. It brought tears to my eyes, thinking of so many …
This is the view across our dirt driveway from our dining room window!
We just got back to Gamboula Friday late afternoon, and Roy had been having a vaguely sore mouth for a couple of days, but nothing like Friday …
Well, here we are in the big city of Yaounde for our shopping before we return to the bush tomorrow morning starting out at 5am so as to make the border crossing before it closes at about 5pm. Yup, we …
WHAT?!?! No, this isn’t in Africa, but I thought it was pretty funny – this is our son, Sam, with the after effects of snowblowing a very long driveway after a 12 inch blizzzard! Well, at least he got to …
It’s been a wonderful, restful vacation at Kribi so far, all except for some knocking on our door at 4 am this morning. It turned out to be someone looking for the occupants of the room next to us, but …
We’re on way to a much needed (for Roy, particularly) break of 2 weeks at the beach! We are looking forward to this! We made good time yesterday, taking 10.5 hours to cover about 325 miles. Not bad, eh? We …
Today we celebrated Independance Day in C.A.R. There was a parade, complete with many many many marching school children, clowns dressed up as pillow padded beggars acting drunk and dancing lewdly, our hospital crew dressed in scrubs on top of …
We just celebrated the feast of the lamb with our Fulani friends. This is a day commemorating God’s gift of a ram to sacrifice in place of Abraham’s son. Every muslxim family that is able kills a lamb/ram, and everyone …
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Well, I had typed a comment on Thanksgiving day, and when I checked earlier it hadn’t made it on to our blog, but now, 8 hours later, it is there. We have issues sometimes with our internet connection, so …
