Fun with the Sun... birds

We are in the City again. We are happily awaiting Fezzicks arrival, planned to be a day or two ago... but he is stuck in a sand storm so we are stuck here. Luckily lots of people have taken advantage of our presence and given us plenty of work to do. Better to be busy than idle...

So here are some pitures of birds found in someones back yard... I think some are sun birds but I do not have my bird book to know what type or what the others are.. Enjoy.





This little female was very photogenic

Our new home

Sorry to leave such a sad depessing post up for so long! Now however we have moved! So we can show you around the place...

This is Sarah one of our neighboring volunteers who knows the people we are now working with so she escorted us to our new place and stayed the first two nights with us... that was fun, the three of us sleeping on the floor together under the one net we remembered to grab! The baby on her back is Ana, the happiest malawian child ever!


This is our house... 2 bedroom one other room...


Behind the house is the bafa (place to bath and kitchen


Looking in the front door at the back door which is by no means secure... we are haveing a new door and frame made this week... hey at least it keeps the monkeys out!


The front office... where we play scrabble (in English) and they ALWAYS win!


The front gate...


This is Louis he is our helper... We pay his secondary (high)school fees and he works for us like sweeping the yard, getting water... whatever he can do. He is a cool kid!


last Sunday we were told a hippo died and they were to go see it and invited us along so of course we go... They had just confinscated a large net on their way in...


When we arrived to the spot they said an elephant had killed the hippo... four scouts had spent the evening/night chopping and smoking it... so when we arrived there was a pile of meat three feet high!


The rib cage... it was so big! I decided not to include the photos of the head and well the rest... sorry if it grouses you out.


A white breasted Cormerant


Baboons near our house!


We are so happy to be moved and working with these people who are awesome! Our house has recieved a white wash as high as the tops of the door frames... and our furniture is in the house... we have ordered bunk beds for our guest room so that Fezzick has a place to sleep when he comes! We will be around for a few days... maybe more pictures will be posted!