I will write about these pictures when we get home from DDM

Before running errands we went to our PO box and got the bills we knew would be there. On the way home we stopped at the nursery to see if we could get Round-Up concentrate so we could kill a lot of weeds that have grown up around Esikhawini’s garden plots. They did not have anything but we did get these good pictures of a bird we had not seen before and that we can not find in our Birds of South Africa book.

We then went to mall where I made sure we were not behind on our Telkom bill so they will not disconnect us this month. I have come to know the young women who work there by their first names. They appreciate the fact that I never get upset with them when I have a problem – it is not their fault.

We then went to the municipality where Mary paid our $3 water bill while I went up to the Water and Sewer desk and told them about our problem with no water at Esikhawini. The woman called the water folks and told me that they would take care of it.

When we arrived at Esikhawini we found the service folks waiting for us. I thought for once a problem would quickly be solved. Wrong! After an hour of working on the problem they decided that the crew that repaired the system last time would have to do it again. They made a call and told us that someone would be coming. 2 1/2 hours later we gave up and headed home. Maybe tomorrow?

The picture of the lamp post is important because I finally figured out how to get my camera to go beyond the 3.2X zoom. It has been a problem for months and there are a lot of pictures of birds and animals I could not take because I could not zoom in close enough. We spend more money at Super Spar than anywhere else in Richards Bay. We not only get most of our food there, we also buy any welfare food orders at Super Spar. I have bought enough from the bakery department that the manager knows my name and the clerks all smile and wave when I go by. For all the years I have shopped at Albertsons in Provo, they still do not know me from Adam.

In the evening Elder Peterson and Elder Mukhota came by so Elder P could use our Vonage phone to find out why his credit card does not work. It took him about 20 minutes to get them to agree to lift the ban that Zions has on almost all Visa cards here in South Africa. Credit card theft is one of the major problems that we are warned against. We only use ours at the ATM and for Mary’s pharmacy purchases.