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Hi, all. Go back at least another page or more to see and read all the new posts. None of them are long, but there are several!

Abigail

Growing Up

Before/After

Colt's Project

Fun in Houston

Little Girl in Red

July-kids and friends

Abigail in July

ghana

More answers to more of your questions:

We will be living in a western style house with running water and electricity. The house will be much, much nicer than what the huge majority of the folks there live in, as mud huts are the norm. We will have washer, dryer, fridge, but will not use disposable diapers but instead the new generation of cloth! No easy way to dispose of trash, no walmart down the street to get more diapers, etc. we can eat both western style food as well as ghanian.

free time activities will be whatever we can come up with-watching a dvd, having missionaries and others over, hosting our friends and family who are visiting (hint, hint), playing baseball and soccer (or football, as they call it). there is a tennis court there so we will likely play tennis, as well. but we will have to be pretty good or get a lot of extra exercise as there is no fence currently around the court!

we'll find out how proficient we become in the tribal language we will learn! It's supposed to be fairly simple. maybe once we learn a few words we'll post a recording either here or on facebook.

about colt, on one hand he seems very interested and likes to share with others about africa. he does say he will miss his friends and cousins, which is very understandable, of course. He does have Jesus as his savior, so that does help a lot.

(I just noticed myself trying to spell like a Brit. I may do that more as we live over there for awhile.)

Thanks again for the questions, interest, and most importantly, prayers!

Answering More Good Questions About Ghana

Here's a link I found on climate for Ghana: http://www.southtravels.com/africa/ghana/weather.html. Joel and I are both surprised at the temps on two sites I checked. It only felt like it was 100 degrees or more or else the sites are just wrong! The equator may effect the heat index big time!

We will need no winter clothes at all in Ghana, per se. I light jacket for the evenings after our bodies have adjusted and the cool nights feel chilly, maybe. And we may take a little something for any fun traveling we do in Europe while in that part of the world.

The number of missionaries where we will be, not including us: two married couples (The Failes), one with three children still in the home (The Hewitts); one single woman (Jane) and one widowed man(Tommy). Yes, we will live on a compound together except for Tommy. He lives just outside the compound.

Thanks for asking great questions. More to come as more questions come in.

Lake City-pics again

I had to add this slideshow of our Colorado trip again (from early July). I went back and added a title to this show later under editing in blogger. I had forgotten that usually messes up the slideshow. So, went back and added it in a new post. If any of you expert bloggers out there have a suggestion on that, suggest away!

We will change our blog in many ways before leaving for Africa. I've got new photos we took with a photographer-taken in May, I believe. Once those photos are emailed to me, we'll have new header photos for our blog with Abigail!

Lake City