nothing to blog about… February 9, 2010

our life-there’s really nothing to blog about right now.  it’s pretty boring.  we get up.  rob goes to work.  i run round a bit.  cook lunch.  rob eats it.  then in the afternoon,  it’s pretty much the same thing.  we have some fun sometimes when the power goes out (like now) but for the most part that’s it.

we’re looking forward to the olympics.  that should be quite fun.  plus all that snow.  (i know that they imported it but still).  and i can admit to being quite jealous.  i hear that lots of people have lots of snow right now.  of course, it happens when we’re not around.  and trust me, we’re not anywhere close to getting snow.   currently, it’s a nice balmy 85 with scattered clouds.  (but no rain!)

that’s all i’ve got for now.

cheers!

wondering thoughts… February 2, 2010

how can 1 thing be so reasonable 1 time and so freakin’ pricey the next time?

trickle down doesn’t work February 2, 2010

south africa is proof that it doesn’t.  the white people here spend so much time and energy is keeping everything “safe” that nothing is safe.  (don’t worry, i haven’t gotten robbed!)  everywhere you walk, there are walls, gates and security guards.  what a headache in trying to keep everything safe.

shoping list January 31, 2010

seeds
bread maker
shampoo/conditioner
nails and hooks
finger nail polish
eyelash curler
bird book
pink lemonaide mix

hair cut

and what do people want to read. January 28, 2010

i’m guessing that the majority of the people reading this want to either know about malawi or just wonder what we’ve gotten ourselves into?  if you want to know something about here or what we do here.  please let us know.  but fyi this was the big story when we returned from christmas…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8433640.stm

and that’s all.  i guess that the government has moved on from lack of proper school buildings, food for everyone and some medication, plus the whole no gas thing.

missing home January 28, 2010

it’s not TOOOOOOO often (pronounce it with the f and the t) that rob and i both allow ourselves to miss home.  but this past week, both of us have been missing home.  we’re acknowledged to primary reason why we moved here but that still doesn’t make missing home any easier.  you would think that since we’re together that would make it okay.  and it does but sometimes you just want to crawl upon you pottery barn couch and watch some tv with fast internet so you can imdb stuff while your watching tv.   or have a pizza delivered to your house.   or pick up the phone and call your family.  but rob and i try not get this way at the same time since it just makes you dissatisfied and that’s no way to life.  plus, we really do want to accomplish our goals here but sometimes those goals just seem unachievable.

some pictures of the forrest January 24, 2010

deforestation is a huge problem in africa (nevermind the rest of the world).  the majority of the people use either wood or coal (you get this by burning the wood at a high temp but still wasting about 60% of the tree)  i can’t really talk since our guards use coal to cook on and so do we when there is no power.  and where i lived in AR was alot like this but at least Weyerhauser would replant so they could harvest again.  but not here.  the forest that we are in has several parts some of it even with some indigenous forest (mimbo) but mostly pine from australia and blue gum trees.

the amazing thing is that we were there about 48 hours and i took about 500 pictures between the two cameras.  all i need now is a good rain storm so we can use the waterproof to take some pictures in the rain!

we’re novices at bird watching January 24, 2010

but appearantly, people from europe come here all the time to watch birds.  there’s a REALLY big book that you can get but you have to know what you are looking at first to tell the types of bird that you are looking at then it’ll  break it down for you (ie sparrow, finch, bee eater, wag tag, weaver, etc)  so here are some pictures of birds that we saw just at luwawa with the best guess we have at them from our MUCH smaller color coordinated book that only has about 1/10 of the birds that the other book has.

some flower pictures January 24, 2010

i love flowers-thanks grandmothers!  (and mom).  that one of the things that i love the most about our house in hillsborough.  i can’t wait to get home and plant some more.  including lots of bulbs!  but the thing here  is that there are lots of wild orchids.  we only spotted the one variety but there were lots of other wild flowers including some venus fly trap types so here they are.  (ps if you want to view them bigger on your screen-click on the picture.  it will get bigger!)

the monkey snaps… January 24, 2010

poppyseed has been a bit sad this week since no one commented on his pictures of the monkeys.