December! and African life

Fritz found a fun vine swing in the back yard.

 A fairly quiet week but some interesting things to see.

Monkeys made a visit to our yard this week to eat some mangos, they were less than 30 feet of the house...

Cory is not happy to have them around but it is interesting to have them surprise us like this.

We also completed an update so if you did not receive it by e-mail and would like to, please let us know.

We are preparing and counting days for Eli to come visit. Please join us in prayer as he was sick over Thanksgiving and slowly recovering. 

He also has a tight layover in Addis Ababa so we'd all appreciate travel prayers for him and us as we go to pick him up and show him a bit of the country during his three week visit. 

The rains have greened up the area and causing much plant growth. 

Looks like weeding will be a priority in the weeks to come.

Ants are an enemy of termites, video of termites building a mound and ants carrying away some of the workers.

Leaving a porch light on after rain resulted in dozens of queen termites finding their way into the house and hundreds on the porch.

They run out of energy if they don't eat during the night so most are dead or unable to walk by morning.

Termites move a lot of soil and often cause foundations to sink and walls to crack.

We dug out the front flower bed and put down some termite killer and a double layer of plastic to help keep the foundation area dry.

Then the topsoil and flowers were put back in place.

Saturday was a memorial service for a former principal of the Bible College.

The photo is preparation the day before of a sweet corn drink made by heating corn meal with water and then sugar and a bark tea are added.

Our decorations are in Haiti and Michigan!

Interesting amaryllis type lily

We are used to tropical Christmas but spring weather and flowers in December is strange.