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Category Archives: Fun
Enjoying S. Africa’s Free State
We were able to take a few days’ break before school and work started again in early January. Free State country is amazing, breathtaking, expansive, and ruggedly beautiful. 
Crazy wonderful rock formations
A sweet little outdoor chapel
And a lovely …
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Make your own corn toss?
Roy built the frames and Sawyer and Elaina painted the creatures on them. I made the bags to fill with corn, following the measurement and weight online. I couldn’t help but think of Roy’s birthday last year when Maddie and …
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Not Roy’s week
Roy was the first one to use the new jar of pepper…
and he bravely ate around the biggest part of the spill, not quite the Exxon Valdez, but bad enough. He normally loves pepper, well, especially hot chili peppers, …
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Celebrating Jesus’ birth
It’s summertime in S. Africa. School has just finished and families are heading off for summer vacation. Businesses slow down and tourists fill the area, in spite of the great white sharks roaming about in the nearby ocean. Because of …
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Making Christmas cookies
If the Hallelujah chorus comes on, no matter what you’re doing, you’ve just got to sing along! This is joy!
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In transit in Yaounde
It seems like no matter where we are, what place we might pass through, Roy loves to help out with gardening/farming/anything to do with plants. He is happiest when he’s got dirt under his fingernails and leaf litter on his …
Egrets!
Just before we left Gamboula, the egrets came swooping in. I haven’t actually paid attention to see if it’s an actual migration routine, or if it’s just random, but we periodically get to see flocks of egrets in our …
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Random explosive beauty
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Unexpected suppertime guest
We were having supper with our buddies, Jan & Kim, enjoying the breeze from the wide open window by the table, when suddenly a rhinocerous beetle whizzed in and perched on Roy’s shirt, acting like a beautiful boutonniere! Crazy wonderful …
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Ramaata is home!
Thank you for praying for little Ramaata, (the one with the scarf) that the TB in her leg bones would be healed. She was released from the hospital, after a 2.5 month stay, and here she is reunited with her …
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