Today: banana seeds, tiny earthquake, green room and more..

Monday rushes toward supper time. Today's minutes filled with school, book translation, office work, and smaller tasks.

This weekend we enjoyed a visit from Robert, a guest of Pastor Denord's from LaGonave.

Robert's project on LaGonave consisted of teaching construction while building the children's village near the airstrip.

Pastor drove him back down to catch the LaGonave ferry early this morning.

We enjoyed getting to know Robert a bit and the 'care package' that Joy sent us. Thanks!

Friday Eli and Anna passed the 50% mark of our school year, remaining on track for completion before our fall trip to the USA.


Cory found a few banana seeds in one of the cooking banana varieties so he let some get ripe to be able to plant the seeds. He doubts that the seeds will spout but will see what happens.

Never heard of a banana seed?

Because most folks do not want seeds in their bananas. They can be hard, these are very astringent if you bite into one. Most banana plants multiply by forming new plants from the bulb.







I did walk down to clinic today but the small clinic crowd did not need a third doctor as much as Eli and Anna needed a school teacher. 

I did take a few pictures of the patients having their vital signs taken in the new 'green' reception room.

 Pastor Rigo reported that the cholera treatment tent currently holds 9 patients.
This afternoon our heart rates accelerated rapidly when a very small earthquake rattled the house, sending us outside.

The quake started before our alarm sounded therefore the epicenter must have been local. Caused some excitement down at the Wesleyan school too, judging on the vocal noise!

Puppies growing well and starting to get into more mischief so will soon be finding new homes.

Thankfully late this afternoon when the large royal palm frond fell snapping our clothes line in half, no puppies or laundry were in the area at the time!

These make a loud whooshing sound right before the louder thud of ground impact.

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