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| Agnes' maize is getting tall and the groundnuts (peanuts) are also looking good. |
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| A beautiful foggy morning in the valley of River Nzoia. The structure on the left is the 'choo' (outhouse). |
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| Soon the sun comes up, for the start of another day. |
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| View from the outhouse (on top of a termite hill). Maize on the left, groundnuts (peanuts) on the right. |
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| Lots of red beans. |
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| Two kinds of greens, planted on a termite hill. |
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| Finger millet |
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| Cow peas |
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| Adu heads out to fetch water and also gives Zach a ride part-way to school. Abraham, a young neighbor boy, looks on. |
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| Duane and Zach really enjoyed these simple airplanes. Be sure to see the video below! |
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| The older boys, Pope and Adu, are thrilled with their newly cemented floor, table, and chairs! (Tony was away at school) |
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| The older boys now have two small lights in their house. Pope and a neighbor, Levi, install the solar panel on the roof. |
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| A pretty morning in the grassy yard |
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| The entire farm has now been fenced! |
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| Agnes sits by her newly-built 'smokeless jiko' in her kitchen. It uses less firewood and burns more efficiently for quicker cooking. |
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| The older boys' house on the left, kitchen in the center, and the main house on the right. |
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| Their dog is scrawny just like almost all dogs in Kenya. |
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| On this visit, as well as my last one in May, I did some painting in the sitting (living) room. It really brightened up the place! |
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| Agnes loves her new home! |
2 comments:
I'm glad to hear Agnes is doing so well in her new home & on her new land. What a hard worker she is to make a go of it, and I trust her boys also do their share, which is good for them too! Also, what are cow peas--are they anything like black-eyed peas?
Donna
Yes, the boys help out a lot! Especially Pope and Adu. Tony is at boarding school most of the time and Duane and Zach are still a bit young to do much.
Cowpeas are a legume, with four sub-species, one of which is black-eyed peas. In Kenya, they're mostly grown for the leaves, which are boiled and eaten as greens.
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