Tuesday, October 2, 2012

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUNTIE

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.
Do you think he could get anything else in the box?
When stove has a different meaning.
If the government shuts your milk business down you can sell (bonga) clothes
One of the 13 who's PA system always works at 5AM
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