Category Archives: Fun

“Old people selling old stuff”

Now, I confess, I am a garage sale junkie. I stop and shop whether or not I am in dire need of anything. It’s so fun to find key buys and treasures and wonderful toys and books for the grands …

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The attack of the beans!!


Kimia and I were picking green beans, and I mentioned that I was leaving some of the smaller ones to grow just a bit more, but that I thought I was probably not seeing all the good sized ones that …

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Visitors at Lake Beauty

Dear friends Colette and Becky came 3 hours from Crookston, MN, to Little Ralls, MN (I won’t tell about the slight detour, Becky!) just to spend a few hours with me!  I am blessed and we had such a lovely …

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In Belgium with our buddies

Here are our buddies, Steve and Barb Swanson.  Steve is the pastor of the International Church of Antwerp and Barb is a Covenant missionary.  It has been so great to spend time with them this past weekend, to see their …

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How deep how wide?

The work on the quadruple place outhouse at the hospital should be just about finished, I mean how deep do you have to dig so that you won’t have to dig another pit soon? Just maybe they went overboard on …

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oh the puppies!


The Turk boys’ puppies (one is actually missing from the photo) are so very cute and soft and chubby!
I think when we get back home tomorrow, they will all have been distributed to their new homes.

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Whose turn to do the dishes?


Here are a couple of cute as a button Fulani girls, doing the dishes for their family at the hospital. There is no food service available – the patients’ families come and take care of them, cooking in outside shelters, …

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Still struggling with the internet

It has been two full weeks now without internet at our house. We have been able to borrow the Cones’ phone a couple of times. Their phone, for some reason, has kept on with the internet capability even though the …

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We have lights and water 24/7, but no internet again!!!

So sorry to have been so long in getting news on the blog, but we have been struggling with no internet as well as having had very limited electricity. BUT, we are happy to say, we’ve got lights!! Our heartfelt …

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Still in the dark!


Well, I posted our prayer requests but left out a REALLY big one! We still are limping along (since the end of November) with just a few hours of power and running water each day. We have heard that the …

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