October 12, 2010

• Very short (and too close up, sorry) clips of Asher toddling around.
  

  Our passion fruit vine just dropped it’s first ripe fruit today. Pretty exciting! Can hardly wait until there’s enough ripe fruit for juice. Mmmm!
  

  
  Look at all those flowers and unripe fruit! Woot, woot!!
  

  Josh was just home for a 20 minute coffee break after bringing the truck to the hangar to see if someone could help figure out why it honks whenever we turn sharply. It makes me think of Brian Regan every time and i end up laughing the whole time i’m driving. “Go my favourite sports team!!” haaha.

  He was expressing some frustrations and challenges he’s been having at work recently, one of which is a lesson he feels God is teaching him in this last month -> to not worry about things that are not within his (Josh’s) control. I wont go into details, but apparently he was stressed this whole weekend about the airport authorities making (more) rules that would make life for MAF increasingly difficult. This morning at the meeting it became apparent that it was all a big misunderstanding.

  One of the other things Josh has to deal with personally, and i simply see glimpses of it and stew on it privately (or, here on the blog perhaps. ha) are the challenges of watching large “egocentric NGOs” waltz around the country “saving the world” but in reality… well. Perhaps i should just stop there and circumvent the badmouthing that could get me into trouble. All i can say is, rather donate your money to SMALL organizations or individuals you know are doing a good job accomplishing things with it than to big organizations who pay huge salaries and overhead expenses and dont seem to follow through with things until the help actually gets to the people. There is BIG BUSINESS in Humanitarian Aid, let me tell you. I’m sure this isnt a secret to anyone who lives in Africa and sees the ‘end’ of the money river, but it might very well be a secret to the thousands of people who give money to charity without doing much investigation. Just sayin’. Mind you, there are many things big NGOs can accomplish that smaller organizations cannot simply because of their size of organization and the amount of money they have to work with. And, they are capable of spending lots of money on lots of flights which helps to offset the costs for less big groups doing bigger work in the countryside.

  There’s a rat living in our garage. I suspected it before, but today i finally saw it run from the garbage can to it’s home under the woodpile. ick. Time to get the poison out again i suppose. bleh.

  I did some gardening on my own today. I felt like a true Canadian doing it. haha. We’re really, really hoping for the rains to start soon, it’s getting too hot even in our house which keeps the cool so well, and the dryness is at times painful.  Regardless, i’m pretty happy with the garden already. I like how i can think, “and next year it’s going to be even better!!” Moreover, i love how we’re the only people who seem to live in this compound, which means our lack of hedges isnt such a big deal.

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