Our new home

Our new home in Adiebeba – settling in for the long haul with a groovy group of folks and two goats

MOVING IN

Ashley of Waste Enterprisers found this great home in a neighborhood called Adeibeba for project staff and rented it for a year. After arriving from Accra with our bags, Bob begins schlepping them into the house. We brought everything we could think of that we might need for a year and probably a bit too much at that.

NEW TRADITION

Of course we brought Spot’s little brother who immediately teamed up with Jeremy’s giraffe friend to welcome people into our home. We began with the current group of housemates. Seated are Lauren, Jeremy and Camille. Standing is Louis with his carved rhino and Bob.

HARD WORKERS

Louis and Lauren have been working hard on the project and we all throw our energies into the kitchen for a shared meal every evening.

COOKIES NEW JOB

Camille has transitioned from workshop coordinator at The Abundance Foundation to Abundance Manager at Casa Kumasi. Her first trip to the market at the Ahodwo roundabout yielded an impressive variety of vegetables, including cabbage, potatoes and beets. On this evening, with the help of a two-burner electric stove, she prepared a stir fry with rice and fresh pineapple and mango.

COMPOST OR GOAT FEED?

That is a question we often ask ourselves. After we throw the compost on the pile, the goats hurry over and cherry pick it for fruit peels and bread crumbs. It’s so much fun watching them eat with their little goat mouths that we often put the pan down before reaching the pile and enjoy a little goat T.V. These are Jeremy’s goats and he intentionally bought a male and a female. He named the male Go-At. He is the buff-colored goat with the dark legs and stripe down the back of his neck on the left. The darker female he named Aponkye (ah-pon-chee) which is Twi for ‘goat.’

PREFERRED PERCH

I’m afraid you’re going to see a lot more about these two little goats in future Photo Albums. They like to hang out on the clean, dry front steps but are skittish and jump off when we approach.

GARDEN PREP

Jeremy has been working diligently in his spare time after work, removing rocks from the rich soil in our back yard in preparation for a vegetable garden. This pile of rocks is about half of what he ran into. On June 29th, he finished tilling in a load of composted cow manure by hand. The next step will be fencing because goats and gardens don’t mix.

LAUNDRY

Bob took first crack at our new laundry system which involves buckets, soap and hands or washboard for deeper stains. Because it is the rainy season, we rigged up a dry room in the downstairs solarium/breakfast nook/yoga studio.

COMFORTS OF HOME