Life Day to Day

This is a photo of the little house we are staying in . Brent who is one of the pilots lives next door.
You can see the screened porch of his house on the right edge of the picture. The porch, houses Brents African Grey Parrot, who keeps us entertained with his many voices and sounds. His repretoire includes my voice calling Dexter (the dog we are keeping)---- Tim saying good morning ---Tim's laugh--- Brent's car alarm---Dexter whinning---greetings in Portugueses --and various whistles and other sounds and phrases...his name is Pepe and he is quite amazing.
Our house is quite comfortable and has most things we need. They have put in many new windows since we were here last and all of them open and have screens, which will be even more wonderful as we head into the hotter rainy season in about a month. For now the temperature is moderate (25-28) degrees and cools off to 15 at night, but very dry and dusty. They have also attached an annex with two guest rooms and a bathroom to the house it has a separate entrance or can be accessed through our house.
So we hope to host some visitors during our time here.
Most basic food things are available but the store often seems to run out of items or only carries them occasionally so I will have to learn to stock up. Meat is not abundant and fairly expensive.
There is a mission farm that raises cattle and the MAF group buys one occasionally and butchers it themselves...I was able to purchase some of that. Frozen chicken from Brazil is almost always available and occasionally pork chops. For those of you who didn't figure it out yet "Miolo Da Palete" is beef tongue...I haven't cooked it yet. Lots of fresh tomatoes, green pepper, carrots, potatoes, lettuce, bananas, cabbage and even local strawberries. There is a garden here but the soil is very poor and does not grow all that well.
I have a small front load washing machine and a clothes line...everything dries quickly in the warm dry air.
Everything seems to take a little longer to do here, but I am enjoying the time and the slower pace.

In closing afew prayer concerns:
-Continued good health especially Tim he has a number of mysterious bites for which we can't find a cause or a cure...very itchy
-For Barb that she finds ministry opportunties here.
-For the country of Angola as it has its first election in 16 years on Sept 4
-For Tim as he drives in wild traffic to and from the airport.
-For all the pilots and the aircraft of MAF as the transport various medical and missionary teams around Angola