saturday morning

Generally, Saturdays at our house are fun, but not exactly restful. Kids show up starting before 9am for a variety of things: small jobs, music practice, recording songs, and just visiting! Enjoyable, but not always conducive for extra sleep and relaxation. 

This past Saturday, though, all my housemates had gone away, leaving me and the cats to hold down the fort. It was lovely to have a slow, quiet, relaxing Saturday! Here are some pictures of my morning:

The Word + coffee + cool morning = delicious!

Manvu bananas growing in our front yard...should be ready in a week or so! Yum. 

Not sure what kind of bird this is, but I was excited to get a picture of him on one of our banana trees!

She's annoyed because we ran out of cat food and I fed her shortcake biscuits instead. 

And just so you don't think my Saturday was all play and no work, here's the pile of laundry that I folded. I thought about including a picture of the dishes I washed...but I don't think you'd want to see that. 

th-th-th, that's all folks!

Here's irony: the day after I posted about dry season being so hot, rainy season started.

And with a bang too! Here's a short video of the first downpour of the season. There was even half-inch hail. Thankfully the clothes drying on the line don't appear shredded...

dry season

It's been really hot and dry recently (at least 95 F by noon!). Dry season is in full swing...but there are rumors of the rains coming soon!

You know it's hot when the cats walk in the house and plop onto the concrete floors because it's just too hot to lay on the comfy sofas!

February Update

Feb Blog Update by

a most excellent adventure, part 2

Sorry for the delay in update! The internet has been pretty sucky the past week. 

But today it's working, so here are the promised waterfall pictures from camp!

a camp road...we walked down the road a bit to reach the trail

hiking thru the Ugandan jungle...my housemate Hannah leads the back half of the crew

Some crazy trees in the forest! These trees have above-ground roots...and they were big enough to hide inside! 

Bambino, a camp dog, joined us on the hike.  

The waterfall. 

 Funny story of God's providence: Musana Camps actually purchased the land with the waterfall on accident. They had intended to purchase another piece of land, but the lawyer in charge of the transaction made a 'mistake.' Though frustrating and expensive, it actually has turned out to be a great addition to Musana Camps and evidence that God can redeem earthly mistakes!

And a final picture for you: sunrise over Lake Victoria, from the guesthouse at Musana. They're hoping to purchase the inlet you see in this picture so they can have the whole cove, preventing hotels and discos from being built next door and disrupting the peaceful atmosphere of camp. 

a most excellent adventure, part 1

Last week, I went to Musana Camps, NHU's Lake Victoria location. 

Musana panorama - wow.

A short-term team had come from the Dakotas to work there, so I joined the group from Kasana that went to visit them (not because I knew the Dakota people, mainly because I had the week off work and might as well go to camp as stay here!). 

While at camp, I did all sorts of baking and dish-washing to help out. But I also was able to take some time for rest and exploration. Below is a picture of the 'adventure walk' that Julia and I took one afternoon.

Off we go!

The team was working hard creating a new road, fixing cars, painting houses, building culverts and walls, and doing lots of handy-man work in general. 

dump truck! 

Creating a new water system

Later in the week, the whole group took an adventure to the waterfall that's on Musana's property...pictures of that coming soon!