Sunday, February 10, 2013

Happy34th Birthday to my favorite first born FEB 4

Sorry it is late.
You sent me video of your Christmas dinner
Thought I would send you pics of what we COULD have for dinner but won't.
Fresh goat with the hoofs still on




A local street vendor with his panga cutting the meat. Like his straw shop he works out of?









After he loads the screen up and stokes the oil drum fire, they put a piece of cardboard over the top to keep the heat in and give the meat a smoky flavor.  I remember in my American life being picky about things I ate for carcinogins. Don't have to worry here. There are bigger things that will kill you then carcinogens...
Oh yea this is organic goat. Not certified, but it only eats the town trash so how much more organic is there.



These are some of the students in front of our Maternal Child Health Clinic that just got updated (painted)
It took 1 week. Why such a short time?  Why the Uganda colors ribbon in the back ground?
Museveni came to town with all his troops. It was Uganda Peoples Defense Force Day. They marched around the parade grounds and Museveni gave a speech.  It was blazing hot and didn't start on time (nothing new) so we went to the parade grounds but left after an hour of massive people, trying to see, like we all were, and packed together in the sun we had enough of making history.  Did I mention it is hot here?  Anyway, with Museveni here, and all his troops, he put some of them to work.  They painted this ward unit with toxic paint so all the pregnant moms could have some fumes to inhale while waiting to see the midwives and babes could inhale as they waited for their vaccines. Then the Minister of Health came and cut the ribbon on the new updated clinic.  "A grand time was had by ALL".  I missed this event.
 He also had troops fix pot holes on the main street.  So a few companies of troops with not enough pick axes and shovels dug out and filled in all the potholes on our main road. About 2 kilometers in length, in the hot sun, with there hot uniform on.  We have smooth roads again at last...... till it rains...  LOVE FROM UGANDA