Today ended up being a very productive day, something I like. It’s really hard when days aren’t productive. Yeah, you may love that you are sitting on the couch all day reading, computing, sleeping, etc... But you can’t feel good about what you haven’t done, it just doesn’t work like that. Especially serving in such a vocation as this where you only have a limited amount of time and you must accomplish all you can before you leave.
Today was a good day and I’m proud of what we accomplished. Amber and I made our way up to Seya to check on the stove we built 3 weeks ago tomorrow and to start a fire to see how it heated and if it was going to work. We got a fire started but it was very hard to keep going because the wood was not fully dry the the stove itself was anything but dry. It’s really hard to keep a roaring fire going when you have wet sand you are trying to push the fire and heat through; it just really doesn’t work that well. Nevertheless we had the help of Wilson who started a fire for us. We kept the fire going while we were there until we had to leave. Wilson told us that we would keep the fire going for the rest of the day to help dry it out. We really need to know how one of ours works, it would really give us some confidence as we continue to build other stoves. While we were up there Amber held the little baby, I think her name is Victoria or something similar, I can’t remember. The pour thing has malaria and it very sick all the time. She has a fever around the clock, never has a diaper of any sort, and really just isn’t too happy any of the time; how I can I blame her. But being 2 1/2 years old doesn’t make things any easier, probably worse.
Our boda boda ride out there and back was rather death defying; we seem to run in to a lot of that here. We always seem to praying for our lives at some point during the day whether it’s eating a certain meal, riding the boda boda, or even just crossing the streets.
We went to Equator school and put in the adobe mixture with all of the pipes required. We ended up not having enough clay available and added some ant hill dirt which should be a pretty good substitute. The ladies had brought the clay from SO far away, we were so grateful and amazed at their willingness. There ended up being a short supply of the adobe mixture, just as a I suspected when I saw the pile in the beginning. I came up with an idea however and to use bricks to fill in space in places that didn’t really need the adobe mixture.
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