4th July 2011

The tree nursery/shade house is moving along so quickly. Just a few days ago it was just a few poles up and now it has piping installed and the beginnings of the irrigation all in (all the plumbing done by my husband’s fare hands) and the shade cloth was going on this morning! There are now 17 people packing the seed bags with soil. They were paid a few days ago and I think that the money helped them see that it was worth sitting in the dust and the sun putting soil into bags!!

I was driving to Bonda the other day and came across what to us is a traffic jam! I was stuck for a whole 40 seconds or so while the cows meandered out of the way chewing on the cud and looking completely unfazed by the fact that I needed to pass. It does amuse me every time we get stuck that this is all that we need to deal with as far as traffic goes. It is such a blessing to not have to sit in real traffic jams for hours on end. A mere hoot of the horn and the cows move out of the way.