Ben and Moses hitched a ride to Masindi yesterday with the European campers around noon yesterday and we were left by ourselves. The quiet is wonderful and we will enjoy it until the week0end when they will return along with Stu to finish the mural.
While I continued to paint the outside Connie took care of our laundry, taking advantage of the sunshine. They days are running together as there is little new to report. We are taking today off – no painting just reading and relaxing – but there is still work a plenty to be done. Amnon and Vincent don’t refuse to work but there is a certain unwillingness to take any kind of initiative. Like Robert and Lawrence they haven’t been paid since March so their attitude is understandable.
Debby was scheduled to visit today supposedly to find out why the guys don’t like Ben, but as things are prone to do at JGI, she changed her mind. She is supposedly escorting the US ambassador who is deciding whether our warnings regarding Ugandan travel are warranted. Maybe she will make it tomorrow. We hope she brings along the solar powered lantern; we didn’t realize how much we relied upon it.
I painted this morning while Connie did laundry. I assigned the guys some clean up jobs and she can’t stand to watch how disorganized they are. Sometimes they look like cavemen trying to figure our how to use a stone axe. And they have no concept of rubbish. They want to save visitor’s registers from 1996!
It rained hard this afternoon, the perfect storm for a shower. But not if you have a leaky roof! More drips, more clean-up and more plastic sheeting. I believe a new roof is indicated. We are recovering with adult beverages – beer for me and iced tea with frozen vodka for Connie. Cheers! As we sipped on the “veranda” fourteen baboons silently sneaked by, up to no good I imagine, so I locked up the center so they can’t wipe mud on the mural. The alpha make is huge and very powerful and could really make a mess of something…or someone!
