Fire!

Things are a little calmer this evening than last! Tim is in Dodoma this week and as is often the case when he is away, we expect the unexpected! 

Last night it was unexpected flames leaping into the night sky as the bushy "fence" around our property caught fire. Someone had wanted to burn their rubbish and lit a fire on the roadside, and it somehow got very out of control. The girls and I were inside for the night and heard a strange and very loud crackling noise and wondered what it was. Amisadai saw it first and shouted the alert … all I remember is that she said it was like fireworks or a volcano in the garden! As well as the flames, there were bits of tree and ash flying in the air. Our nightguard was already running with buckets of water. I joined him while the girls ran inside for more buckets. With all of us filling and running and throwing water... and filling and running and throwing, and others helping on the other side, we managed to get it under control. But it was a lot more filling and throwing water before we had it all out. We are in the middle of the dry season here now and everything is just that - very dry. We are just so very thankful that it did not get any worse. We came in at the end of it, very hot and dirty (and attacked by biting ants!) but extremely thankful. I found a T-shirt of Tim's for Thaddeus, our nightguard, who was rather worse for wear and he returned to guard the open area of our property for the night. So very thankful to have Thaddeus!

I was going to finish a blog tonight on the Mamas and all the wonderful news they have to share, but I will do that another day … instead here are a few photos, throwback to the wonderful time we had with Sinead back in June! She turned eighteen while she was with us and we celebrated with a visit to the Serengeti! What an amazing country this is! The diversity of God's creation is truly awesome! And what an amazing privilege it is to have all this on our doorstep! Once again, very thankful!

Some sunset jumping on Lake Victoria

Serengeti Celebrations!