As Friday came around I went out with Little E to check on some crops. They were about 30 minutes away and it was on a piece of land owned by a large corporation. What they do is lease the land each year to people to grow their crops on this.
Here is Little E walking to check on a crop of Soya Beans
Saturday and Sunday was a retreat for the Parish so the Priests were busy with that.
On Saturday though Timeyo and Clement worked on improving the quality of the clinic roof. With all of the rainstorms which we have had, the roof has generated some leaks and we are working to find them and seal them. So the first step was to install some flashing where the roof meets an adjacent wall.
Clement in Orange and Timeyo in Blue. Standing on the clinic roof clearing the debris to install the flashing.
As Sunday rolled around Timeyo and I celebrated mass in the morning and then we headed to Kasungu. We needed to buy parts for an oil change and also fuel up the truck. As we were going we got stuck behind this truck on the road. As I looked closer I realized they were pulling two cows which were tied up on it. One of the cows had already be slaughtered though and the other one was just waiting it's turn.
As we went to Kasungu we got everything we needed and went to fuel up. We put in 40 litres (8 gallons) and it ended up costing us 27,000 Kwacha. In US terms that is $10.34 a gallon. So just to give you an idea of the fuel situation here.
As we were leaving the gas station the truck did not want to shift into gear. "Well great," I thought, "How are we going to get out of this one?" We finally got the truck into gear and headed home.
The next morning I woke up around 5 to get ready to go into the bush. but as I found out, Timeyo had gone to Kasungu to the mechanic.
And as it turned out, the clutch plate in the truck was worn down completely. So I headed to Kasungu with Big E and we ended up waiting there all day for the guy to replace it.
Here is Father Livinus on the left and Big E on the right as we wait at the mechanic's shop.
We got everything done and headed home.
We woke up on Tuesday and headed into the bush to survey bore holes.
I am going to leave that story for Saturday though as we are preparing again to head out tomorrow to survey more.
As I side note I had to laugh about one event which happened the other day. I was down by the river taking a few photographs with my DSLR. When out of nowhere a giant rainstorm was upon me. I ran back to the house, covering my camera as best as possible. When I got back I was drenched. I let my camera sit for about a week in the sun to let it dry out.
When I turned it back on the auto-focus did not work anymore and it is not working at all. So what I had was only Manual Focus now.
At first I was upset because part of my camera was damaged. Then I realized for a while that I had been looking for ways to improve my photography skills and technical abilities.
Now being limited to only manual-focus I recognized I now have to take more time prepare to take a picture.
Realizing God's sense of humor I laughed.
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