Stuff...

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  Our new guard seems to be working out swell so far - he comes on time!!


• The power has been going off more often and for longer periods again. Wonder if they are running out of diesel down at the power station…


• This week a 737 was coming in for a landing in Merauke (city down in the south of Papua) and one of the engines injested a big cow… Well, the cow and the engine are toast…


• Last night Icelina was playing with a big knife, they do that here, and cut herself badly so today she couldn’t sweep and mop today – which is the bulk of what she does around here…


• Our minister preached as normal yesterday. Guess the problems are worked out for now…


• The new building that we are going to meet in is almost ready, just needs some painting yet.


• Today we had our A/C’s cleaned for the first time. Wow! Was the one in our bedroom ever dirty! It actually runs quietly now and doesn’t make the window panes rattle anymore!


• This morning a truck came by spraying out chemicals to kill mosquitoes – what a nasty smell!


• There’s been a soccer tournament going on across the road from us. It’s a small field so I think it is just 4 on 4 but every afternoon there’s a game. And there’s always some enterprising folks who bring out a little table and try to sell pina (beetle nut-nasty nut that they chew along with some kind of powder which makes the juices red along with the inside of their mouths – yuck!!) beside our fence.
  
• Brynnie is eating normally again!!
  
• So is Hugo… he was sick from Thursday to Saturday.


• And to finish off, a completely gratuitous photo of Brynnie:


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