Category: Much Ado About Nothing

Finally after almost 6 straight days of wind and rain the cyclone is beginning to let up. Today the wind reduced its velocity and rain has turned to intermittent sprinkling. Things are much calmer. Walking around we saw more of the damage caused by this storm; trees down, houses reduced to a pile of bricks […]

Apparently our tropical storm has a name… Cyclone Funso. We expected that the storm would die down today but for the fifth straight day it has been raining and windy. For most of the day the wind was about the same but the rain was a lot heavier. As evening arrives even the wind seems […]

We are now entering our 4th day of non-stop wind and rain. A tropical storm has decided to park on top of us and not go away. Several houses have fallen in the village, including our latrine for the workers (see the picture). Phil’s office wall on the side that has been facing the wind […]

While our guests were here they were able to the nearby river and do some hippo spotting. Here are some of the hippos they were able to see.

On Sunday our guests were invited to attend a soccer game as honored guests. Here we are seated watching the game. The home team lost 2-0.

Ever since the local monkey troop has taken a liking to our papayas we have been offered unending advice on how to get rid of them. For many months of the year keeping monkeys out of one’s fields is a major pre-occupation for the Mwinika. Apparently they have had plenty of time to ponder tactics. […]

Here is a picture of the latest banana “crop” tied up on our porch. Our garden is really producing bananas right now.

When you walk into your garden and see this sight you know there has been some monkey business going on, literally. These days the local troop of monkeys has taken a liking to our papayas. For several afternoons this week they have made raids into the garden looking for ripe papaya.

This has been an unusual dry season. The main thing missing from this DRY season has been the DRY. It has been cool, overcast, and rainy when we normally expect it to be hot, sunny and dry. After days of wind and clouds it finally rained pretty hard. We even had some hail. Some of […]