We have our water tank filling with pumped water from the river as I type. This is the second consecutive night of electricity and last night Pastor Evando had to spend the majority of the electricity hours pumping water for his water tanks. Tonight is our night and we are happy to be having our tank filled! Without tank water today meant a special trip to the Pastor’s spring outback to wash dishes. Much more convenient to do dish washing here at the house with a couple of buckets of tank water.
Breuville had been without electricity for over a week as the diesel had run out and Quico took a long time in getting back from Thama with more fuel for the generator. He did make it back yesterday, though, and I think everyone was happy to have power for the regular three hours last night. It does make things a little better here in the house when you can see well and are not relying on a couple of candles to do what you want to do. I think we usually go to bed just a little earlier when there is no electricity.
Well, our time is winding down here in Breuville. We are both looking forward to getting back out to civilization, especially thinking about how things will change in the not-too-distant future with our little one on the way. We are very happy that we were able to spend this time out here, though, and when we return the place will definitely not seem so strange to us. You do start to miss some of the modern conveniences of civilization out here, though, and things like ice cream. Lately, as we take our afternoon siesta swinging in our hammocks out in the front room I will ask Reb, “What are you going to do when you get out?” The last couple of days has been, “Eat ice cream.” So, maybe a trip down to the ice cream parlor in town will be in order when we do get out next week.
Sunday evening I continued The Stranger on the Road to Emmaus study at church. I think that that will be it for this time as I gave Evando the book. I did see Evando with the book this morning as well as his Bible so I am hoping that he will continue to teach from Genesis as I was doing. He has told me that he doesn’t feel comfortable teaching from Genesis as he has never had any formal Bible education. I think the Stranger book is a good start as it is so straightforward and basic. Evando has really had no education at all. He taught himself how to read and reads quite well now and is currently taking the night course offered here for the adults that have never had schooling. So Evando is doing the 1st Grade.
Reb has finished her book on Heaven by Randy Alcorn. She has really enjoyed that book and it has generated some good discussion in our devotional time in the mornings. She is now wanting me to read it and see what I think. Some of the things that she has mentioned sound a little off of the wall…but I will have to read the book and see for myself. This evening Reb has started in on The Prince and the Pauper.
OK, the cows here in Breuville are starting to get on our nerves. We are supposed to be having some wooden slats sawn for us for a fence around the property here, but the guy who is supposed to be doing that doesn’t seem too eager about getting it done. So, without a fence that has meant the entire Breuville herd of cattle coming through our yard now and again. Monday night was bad as the herd was in the vicinity of our house here and it seemed several members of the herd had an itch that just needed to be scratched. The corner of the house makes a good scratching post! All of a sudden in the middle of the night the awful sound of cow against corner of house would start and with how fragile this house is we would sway in sync in our bed with the cow’s scratching motion. Twice I got up to shoo cows away from the house. Both times I would just get the shutter open and all I would see is the hind end of the cow going around the corner of the neighbor’s fence. Silly things. They would hear me coming and skedaddle before I could get at them. Boy, that ticked me off. I would just ignore the entire scratching thing if it wasn’t for the fact that I am worried the dumb things will break a board off of the house or something.
Another thing these cows love to do is drop their pies right outside our front steps. I am starting to believe that Gary Larson was on to something with his Far Side comics…cows are up to a little more than what you might think. I don’t think I ever mentioned that one of our septic holes that was dug and covered over with boards and dirt behind the house was destroyed by cows. Some cow stepped on the edge and knocked all the boards down into the hole!
Reb is really feeling the baby these days…and her belly is sticking out more and more. I have had the privilege of feeling a little kick here and there, too, just by putting my hand on her belly.
Well, Thursday we will have to pack up some here at the house as on Friday morning the plan is to go up to the village to spend a couple of nights with Rodrigues family (our coworkers). José says he will pick us up Friday morning and then bring us back Sunday morning. He did say that the river is real low and how difficult it is to get back and forth now. If the river gets any lower he may decide that it isn’t a good idea for us to try to go up there. We shall see.
Alright, Evando just came by to check on the tank’s water level. We’re good to go for the remainder of our time here, I believe.
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