Sad and Joyous news

one of my favorite balboa trees with leaves.  valley in background This week was mixture of sad and joyous news.  Let’s get the sad out of the way.  The female puppy (Bonnie-the brown one) died overnight on Tuesday.  I noticed she was not eating that night and looked sort of frail.  The next morning she…

Puppies and Rain

Rain I have always loved rain for as long as I can remember.  There were a couple of times in the military where it rained so long and so hard you would think I would have learned to hate it but it only reinforced my love of  rain no matter how much or long I…

A week in the life

While this first week on site was not designed to be a lot of hands on work due to my need to re-acclimatize to ever present heat and life in the valley I thought you may want kind of a day by day account of what goes on here. After a long weekend in Singida meeting up with…

Back to work

Just over a week back in Tanzania and still have not made it all the way back to the village but have gotten back to work and fun.  The first couple of days were spent in Arusha with William and Martha Makali and getting back into the swing of things.  The first task was getting…