Hopefully all is well with you and the chitlins. It was fun to talk with you on Christmas Day and during that week. You know, I love the holidays, love Christmas, but even here it felt a little stressful at times,and no one wanted to do anything, no classes, no activities, etc., so it was a bit difficult and I have to admit I'm glad to get back to whatever normal is for us. We have a full week ahead of us and I'm glad.
I've posted lots of photos recently about our experiments making stuff, but Ryan is not on Whats App so I wanted to let him know some of the stuff we're doing. The rest of you can just ignore this part. So, Dad's been researching on the internet and watching tons of you tube videos and he made a solar oven and a dehydrator and was pretty darn successful at both. The dehydrator got up to about 150 degrees and the solar oven was up to 280...in fact his solar oven was so successful that it actually burned some of the cinnamon apples he was drying. But in the dehydrator he has successfully dehydrated beef (for jerky), onions,carrots, apples, bananas, bell pepper, onions... this is a dehydrator made out of a cardboard box and foil with a 75 W light bulb. Today we went to over to our little carpenter across the street to have him make one out of wood and he's going to have it ready tomorrow for only $15. So, everything we're doing has to be cheap, duplicate-able, simple, with readily available supplies. I think it's pretty cool what Dad's done. And then I made some strawberry and pineapple leather in the oven last, which was pretty tasty also. Our mission president asked us to teach them ways to preserve food, especially mangoes which are plentiful here in the spring. So we thought mango leather and dehydrating pieces of mango might do the trick, since they don't do canning or make jam, and don't have much freezer space, if any here. We don't know if they will be interested in any of this, but we're sure hoping they will see the advantage of learning how to do it.
I have to tell you about our New Year's Eve. Some of our friends invited us over that night to have dinner with them and their family. We get there, they invite us to sit down at the table and the sister proceeded to serve Dad and I, the man and his sonin-law dinner while everyone else was either in another room or sitting around watching us eat. And then as soon as we finished our dinner, the brother took us home! Oh and what she served us was GOAT! It was so disgusting!!! Lucky me, she gave me the bigger portion which was full of blubber, and I had to gag it down. Oh, dear. I couldn't eat it all, I'm sure I must have offended her. The dumb thing was when she was bringing out my plate I thought it was beef roast and I was so excited...NOT. I was pretty happy that they just took us home. Anyway they said that New Year's Eve is too dangerous to be out and they wanted to get us home early. Apparently the ding dongs shoot their guns in the air (hunting rifles are not against the law here) and one of the members' son was killed by a stray bullet a few years ago. It was actually very quiet that night. The day before, on Friday, our neighbors had a party with blaring music until 3:00 in the morning, and down the street some one had blocked off the street so they could have a live band and party in the middle of the street. So we thought that New Year's Eve would be horrible, but no one was out and no one had parties.
So, that's it. Just a few photos that some of you have already seen. Sorry. Just delete.
Love you all,
Mom
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