Highlights of today:
6:30a - 9:00ish am: Got up, drank coffee, ate a homemade lemon scone (thanks Leanne) with homemade lemon custard (thanks Tracy), cleared new emails, zapped mosquitoes with totally cool hand-held bug zapper, checked Facebook, made scrambled eggs for the girls.
9:01ish am - 3:30ish pm: Hung around the house, sorted clothes for Annie's Closet, looked online for Olympic highlights and results, ate traditional Malawi meal of nsima, boiled egg, greens and relish, took a nap, zapped mosquitoes with totally cool hand-held bug zapper, read 60 pages of Jerry Maurer's book - From Jer to Eternity.
3:31ish pm - 6:15ish pm: Nyala Game Park (see photos)
6:16ish pm - 10:45ish pm: Visited with Greens and Paul Gill by candlelight (two hrs without electricity is not uncommon), zapped mosquitoes with totally cool hand-held bug zapper, had amazing dinner including roast chicken with stuffing, huge homemade rolls (thanks Leanne), cabbage and tomato salad, mashed potatoes and gravy, and fizzies (soda) to drink, downloaded photos, talked with Paulette on FaceTime (after electricity was restored, checked email, uploaded more photos from yesterday to Facebook, wrote (writing) this blog, will upload photos with captions, and get to bed by 11ish pm.
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Alexis can hardly contain
her enthusiasm!! |
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The girls had at work preparing for the first
ever Annie's Closet distribution. |
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| Lots of clothes, ready to pack for Monday distribution. |
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| We got out often, to see how close we could get. |
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| Lots of funny monkeys. |
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We only saw one zebra. She kept her backside
to us but was kind enough to look my way for a photo. |
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| These guys were just chillin' until we disturbed them. |
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This Giraffe was so close and so big, I could not fit
his whole self into a photo! |
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| He bent down and looked into the window of the RAV 4. |
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| Cooking by candlelight. |
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| Playing cards by candlelight. The boy is neighbor, Benjamin, 10 year old son of Paul and Tracy Gill. |
Tomorrow: totally excited to be back in a village church, will pack up clothes for Mon and Tue distribution, and drive two hours to the Miqlat house in Limbe.
We are reading your updates eagerly! Thank you.
ReplyDeleteFrom Paulette - Brad - just wanted you to know that many people are reading your blog and await the updates excitedly. Most cannot figure out how to leave a comment and I must say that remembering how you pulled your hair out getting this thing to work is felt by us all on the other end trying to comment. It always says Select a profile and if you don't have one you apparently can't post a comment. LAME! I've been looking online for some How to's and there are none for "dummies." I'm going to try some things to see if I can add suggestions on how to. Great photos - you should work for some kind of magazine or something - great photos and play by play - love from the Mominator!
DeleteSet up a word press login for anyone who wants to post and I will put it on the Annie's Closet site as well.
ReplyDelete1. open a screen with website: http://wordpress.com/
2. Top of screen - User name - type - themalawiblog
3. password - anniescloset
4. you are logged in stay logged in and leave window open- now open asecond screen where you can read the Malawi blog.
5. Click comment
6. Make your comment, drop down menu "select profile" click wordpress
It may take you to something that says ID and nickname. if so put pd britton for ID and nickname themalawiblog. It will ask you to publish comment to blog just click yes, it will take you back to Brad's blog
7. click publish and then try to read that crazy group of letters and numbers and type it in. (this keeps automated responders from posting trash on the site.)
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This seems a bit daunting but it isn't. PS. on #6 it may be case sensitive so you might have to type in Pd Britton. When I am done typing I highlight my comment and copy it in case the whole thing blows up I can start over and not have to retype everything.
ReplyDeleteWhen you select profile - and you select wordpress, it will want the wordpress user name which is themalawiblog - that's all you type in. click continue and publish.