December 21st-23rd:Monday-Wednesday
Monday we began to put the roof on Jim’s house. We had to be a bit careful though because of the wind during the dry season. It comes consistently from the NE, from Kenya so when we placed the sheets we had to be sure that the wind will not tear them off again. Bob bought sheets that are white, so as to reflect the sun and 7 meters long so we don’t have to cut them just put them up direct. We used self taping screws with rubber and metal gaskets. We drilled the screws direct into the pearling. We put the entire roof up in two days. The wind seems to have died down for a few days so we were able to work all day instead of just the morning.
Wednesday night at bible study we sang some songs to begin. However Al received an important phone call so we just continued to sing and sing. After nearly a half hour Al came back apologized and he began to just give a short message. However this did not last long as the dogs began to bark. Apparently the dogs have a distinctive bark for when they find a snake. We all went to the porch were we spied a large black cobra. The guards came running. As one approached the snake reared up and flattened its head into the distinctive hood of a cobra. I have only seen that on the discovery channel. After the guards had killed it we went out and measured the snake. It was over 6 feet long. After that we kinda gave up on bible study and just prayed.
That night the rain began.
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