Bob

Another month of fun at the site…   MASONS (NOT FREE)    Here’s a mason and his two helpers, along with Eric as we headed out to the site to start construction of the new pump house.   DESIGN/BUILD    Bob came up with the design, and built the roof himself. The 480 volt, 2 […]

  In the Shit! – Work at the FS2BD starts to really get “down and dirty”   WORLD’s DIRTY JOBS – GHANA EDITION    After using a few thousand liters of rumen to inoculate our digesters back in November and December, we found it necessary to transfer the contents to the second train in order

April found us finally flowing fecal sludge at the “design flow rate”. This was real progress and the beginning of overcoming operational “gotchas.”   IT”S ALWAYS SOMETHING…     We discovered a leak at the top of the gas collector in digester 7. It turns out that the threaded plastic fitting at the top of the

  Camille, Bob, and Amy went to Elmina for some ocean time – relaxation ensued.   AMY HAS A PASSION FOR FLOWERS    This beautiful flower is Passiflora foetida, a passion fruit vine native to North and South America and introduced in much of the rest of the tropical world.   NOT JUST A PRETTY FACE

Amy and Jeremy venture into the Eastern Region to meet up with Laura and friends for some camping – March 29-31, 2013   MOUNT ODWEANOMAA    We set up camp at the base of this beautiful mountain in an area well grazed by cattle herds that pass through.   EARLY MORNING     Such a lovely morning, waking to the

  February was the end of the dry season for our project – the bulk of our funding finally became available to us  in Kumasi here (as they say in Ghana here)   THIS IS WHAT SERIOUS PURCHASING LOOKS LIKE Jeremy, Bob, and Justin got busy buying all the things they had put on hold while

  Our trip to the Northern Region was full of wonderful plant encounters.   STATELY TREES    The few tall trees of the Savanna are striking indeed. These two majesties are heralded for their medicine and energy. On the left, a baobab (Adansonia digitata, Malvaceae) shines in the morning light across from the Asempa Lodge. The

  A introduction to some traditional Dagomba cultural practices – shea butter, cotton and pottery, Oh my! Bob, Amy and Jeremy get a hands-on tour of Mbanayili village on February 22, 2013. We had a great time, and left some tourist dollars at the very local level.   A STEP BACK IN TIME The entrance to

  Bob, Camille, and Amy travel to Tema to visit Bob’s boyhood stomping grounds.   COMMUNITY SIX, TEMA 1970     Community 6 was built to hold the dozens of expatriate families that the Volta Aluminium Company (VALCO) brought over to Ghana to build and operate the aluminium smelter in Tema that Bob’s dad managed.

  December was a fairly quiet month on project while we compiled a 96 page “18 Month Report”, staff went on holiday, and a couple of us held down the fort.   A VISION REALIZED Bob had been planning this hammock for a few months. He often gets stuck at the site waiting for someone