Side Trips

A happy home is pretty, clean, filled with good food and surrounded by gardens. It takes planning and maintenance. Here’s a little tour behind the scenes of a typical month.   GOOD EATING    The kitchen is a hot spot. Camille spends an average of two and a half hours a day in meal preparation. […]

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

The ups and downs of two gardens – one upstairs on the balcony deck and the other in the backyard.   BALCONY ABUNDANCE    Lemongrass, coco yam, peppers, parsley, basil and cilantro with turmeric and more cocoa yam tucked in the back. Bob rigged up a PVC water delivery system to make watering easy.  

  In which Bob (yet again) spoils Camille on her birthday by taking her to the Green Ranch for two relaxing days and horseback riding – June 3-5, 2013   NOT SO FAST    There was a mild setback when the muffler on the car Eric borrowed to take us to the lake clattered to

  We moved to Ghana a year ago to join our friend Jeremy in Kumasi. Since then, many other friendships have blossomed and we find ourselves continually meeting new and fascinating people.   NAUZLEY’s PLACE    Jeremy sits outside the Valco Fund Hostel where Nauzley lives. Ironically, the hostel in was founded by Valco, the

  Zoos are not the same the world over and so Camille, Jeremy, Allison and Nauzley hied it on downtown to the National Zoological Garden to see what flavor of zoo they have in West Africa. – June 8, 2013   DYING TO GET IN     Hearses and ambulances are lined up along the compound

  Making the most of our trip to Accra as Amy exits the country by driving north to Aburi and sharing some quality tree time. – June 10, 2013   MEMORY LANE    Bob remembers well the hour drive up the escarpment to the Aburi Botanical Gardens although much has changed. His mother used to

  In which we fly to Accra to hook up with the Waste Enterprisers crowd, take in an art gallery, see Amy off at the airport and find another one of Bob’s childhood homes – June 11-13, 2013   WE OFFICE AND ART GALLERY   Things were hopping at Waste Enterpriser’s office in Osu. After

  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

  Last days of the barnyard experience – Kumasi, May 2 – 9, 3013   BIRTH DAY    May 2nd, after three weeks of sitting on her nest beneath the back steps, six of the seven eggs hatched and Amelia was able to say good by to her dark corner. During those three weeks, she