Puzzled!

Puzzled, or should I say finishing a puzzle that was started many weeks ago. My neighbor Deb and I sometimes put together jigsaw puzzles on my dining room table. When (not if) I have company over for a meal I first put a plastic table cloth on the table, then a cloth one. My company do not even know that I have a puzzle hiding underneath. This past week of my vacation we finished this puzzle that had been "in hiding". Putting together puzzles is supposed to be good for the brain. :-)

Shopping at the local food Market!

Saturday I went grocery shopping "in town". Here is the main intersection in our town of about 10,000 people.



Here I am in the market which sells mostly fresh veggies.



A few of the veggies that are grown here: cooking bananas, peanuts, taro, winter squash and sweet potatoes.









Dried fish is also sold in the market.



There are many small stores in town too but the market is the only place where local veggies are sold.

My African TWIN!

 

I met Louise over 30 years ago in a distant village where I went once a month to encourage those in her Church. She was in my Bible Study for those years I visited there. As our hospital grew, Louise would come periodically to us to have a baby or get other care.

One time I had a piece of material that I took to a tailor for a dress. When I went to pick it up he proudly handed me Two DRESSES of different models. Since there had been more material than he needed for the dress that I  ordered, the tailor decided that I could get two for the price of one! Well, I really did not want two dresses with the same material so I gave the second one to my friend Louise. We had our photos taken. Since then she has referred to us as TWINS.

Louise knows that I will be leaving the country at the end of November for eventual retirement. She ordered nice quality material from a neighboring country and had it with her this time she came to visit the hospital. She paid for the material and I paid for the tailor. Today we had a number of photos taken in our TWIN dresses!! This was Louise's goodbye gift for me. I'll print up several of the photos so she can have our photo as a "souvenir" as they say in French.