HOME SWEET HOME

So im in Uganda again. The flights were smooth and I have been spending my time setting up the new house we are renting in a city district known as Intinda. You can see the back yard in this photo above. Our rental space is the bottom floor there with the large patio

Sebastian, shown above, has connected with new friends who have high prospects in the region. We spent a day with one of his friends who is a developer, sitting on the roof of his apartment building overlooking one of the larger ghettos in the city... The name eludes me at this time... Seb was mugged however and the ghetto is one of the more dangerous locations in the city, so at night YOU DONT GO TO THE BANK MACHINE ALONE!!!!! Or anywhere outside alone... The night just simply provides too much cover for thugs...

Back to the house: We have two bedrooms, a large living room, two bathrooms, a massive patio and a fully modern kitchen upstairs... I have turned a back area of the outside into a woodworking shop where I have already built a coffee table, two shelves, and a bench... With more to come! The wooden poles you see in the photo there are only $1.50 EACH! So im looking forward to more rustic furniture production (and planting 10 times as many trees as I use of course)... I will do another blog just on the furniture once we have made all the fixings for our patio hang out!

The property is in a location known as MINISTERS VILLAGE where many government officials call home... Where the military and police patrol all the streets and back alleys from midnight to dusk... Where the chances of being robbed are so low the home owners here have not even put up razor wire on the back wall of the property. Never the less we still lock our main door whenever we leave, we have so much gear and stuff that one of the people who work for the house could decide to sneak away some things when we are gone. Regardless of the normal security considerations, the fact that we have a modern kitchen, meals being cooked for us twice a day, and working bathroom and water AND electricity almost 99% of the time makes the $500 rental fee all too worth it. This place is a slice of paradise! I will try to capture some of the sun rises we get from the patio facing due east...

Keeping the blogs short and sweet, more to come....