08 March 2008

Riding the Short Blog to Victory

Ok this is going to be a brief summary of happenings of late since I didn't get to use the internets much this trip.

Got rid of the enemy rooster through nonviolent means. Caught 1.5 swarms of bees (7 stings) and put them in the hive only to have a civil war break out and the survivors scared off by army ants (imposhi). Went to (and in!) Victoria Falls briefly. Saw Baobabs in Southern Province! (was going too fast to hug). Seems like I only have one visa renewal of 3 months left (won't be trying Mastercard next), meaning that my stay here might be up in July. We have built a state of the art (which art? cave paintings?) laying/incubation shelter with the intention of hatching some chicks. Added compost (never enough) and tilled most of the garden beds and sowed several varieties of tomatoes and some carrots. Beans to come. Peace Corps Trainees (4 days out of the good ol' US of A) visited us for 4 days to learn the ways of the rural Zambian. Our youngest and littlest chicken Peeps ran away quite a long distance (for a chicken) twice (probably for free cassava scraps and to escape nightly pecking). Now returning to Mpelembe (hopefully to a chicken sitting on 14 eggs and a hive full of bees).

Thanks for all the packages! More explicit blog and thanks to come in early April!

Stay (or get) radical, Doug