In less than an hour the car will pick us up.  The ice chest is packed with food.  With no electricity in the village, there is no refrigeration.  Menus are carefully planned.  Ice packs will no longer be cold before it is time to head back to civilization.  

The driver of the car we normally rent for village visits is a strong Christian.  He's a hard working young man and eager to help.  In fact, upon our arrival, all three men will quickly unload the car, and then Guy and our driver will begin hauling water.  Depending on how low our water barrels are, they may take two or three  trips back and forth to the well.  The car is a great blessing.  Imagine hauling all that water by hand!  And yes, we've done it before.  But that was back when I was much younger, and still able to carry a bucket of water by myself.

The next job on the list is cutting back the jungle.  We live in a tropical rain forest.  It's rainy season and things are GROWING at a rapid rate.  

Meanwhile Papa Jim and I will be busy opening the house and attacking the build-up of spider webs, dirt, and mouse droppings.  I sincerely hope we don't come across any more mice nests.  We will also open our metal storage trunks and will put things back on the shelves.  Those trunks are an absolute life saver.  Before we bought them (they are made in Yaounde and sold on the street) we had a terrible problem with mice.  They chew through most anything and make an awful mess.  Some things cannot be salvaged.

Then it will be time for me to start cooking our evening meal.  We've invited some pastors to our village house for a meeting.  Since the meeting starts at 4 p.m. Cameroonian time, which means that's an approximate time, it is a good idea to end the meeting with a meal.  But we have no idea how many pastors will come.  It could be anything from one up to we have no idea.  So how much to cook becomes any man's guess.  But somehow it will all work out.  It always does.

It's time to leave, so I'll quietly fade away now, with a promise to come back when we return to civilization.  Assuming, that is, that Shiloh will be blessed with both electricity AND internet connection at that time.