Since everyday I walk through the
hospital grounds, some days a fragrance will overcome me. They are
not always pleasant, like when they are burning body parts and
placenta down at the outdoor incinerator, but a couple weeks ago it
was a sweet perfume that wafted up so I followed my nose and it took
me here.
This is the kitchen for the majority of the hospital.
Remember I told you if you don't have a caretaker who brings all the
stuff to cook with and serve with, you will starve? Well, here is
where the do the preparing. The fragrance was from one of the woods
that were burning and it smelled like a mild light patchouli. So
being there I took these photos to share. Dishes set out to dry in
the hot sun, that maybe sterilizes them,
Washing dishes area it has piped water some days or the ladies use the jeri can. (remember 40# on top of there head to bring water to where they need it)
The woman you
see here is making peanut butter. They have small peanuts called
G nuts that they grind on a stone with a stone. One of the ladies at
Tom's work told me a REAL wife does it this way. (Thank you Naoko
for mailing us some) and they gave me a lesson. Takes too long and
uses a lot of energy so Tom will have to eat the nuts whole until he
gets a REAL Wife. They use the gnut paste in sauce with greens
(weeds that I picked I don't know how many of at the Jeske's) and it
tastes wonderful. Water, Weeds, and g nut paste YUM! Tom and I crave it we think it is the Vit A in the weeds. We can develop a whole new market Dennis when I come back.
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| everyone has a segeri (
small charcoal holder used to cook) and large bags of charcoal are
here, but I think the caretakers have to pay for i |
This the current kitchen, hospital, caretaker crew for this day. It had been rainy so they were all under the tin roof doing the cooking.
. For variety you
will see all these children out collecting dessert for supper. In
Late spring which it is here, the ants get wings and start flying
away to go nest themselves. There are hundreds of them and they look
like a cloud of fairy dust as they rise up and disperse. The young
children go out and collect for supper. They put them in the fry pan
plain and fry them. They are very oily and need nothing else with
them. Sometimes the kids just pop them in their mouth as they are
good fresh. I wouldn't know yet. I don't think I have had them. ?
In Dec it is grasshopper season. The grasshoppers here are huge so
it doesn't take many to fill you up, I heard. I am full when they
offer. Hate to take the delicacy away from someone who would enjoy
them.
Tom took a picture of the public
utilities at the back of our house. The large black barrels up high
is city water, and we built a catchment for the rain rainwater down
low. and use it to wash clothes and drink. We filter it with a porcelain candle before consuming. The solar panels are for our 2
lights in the house and black bag on the ground by the tank is the
solar shower that gets the water really hot for the evening wash.
Next are things we saw while walking
around the town I added captions.
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| Do you think he could get anything else in the box? |
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| When stove has a different meaning. |
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| If the government shuts your milk business down you can sell (bonga) clothes |
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| One of the 13 who's PA system always works at 5AM |
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| Tom shopping at Herberger's GET RID OF IT SALE |
Saw this in the clothes market as we looked for familiar names we knew in the used section. He was reluctant to have his picture taken but we insisted. Think you might be in Minneapolis wouldn't you? Well, your not and we miss you all and this was our reminder for the week. TIA Love, Marc
