Bungo

Here are a few pictures of the outside of my house. It's from when I first moved in and the walls are still nice and white. Now the walls are covered with little hand prints from the kids. The church just finished building me a fence around my house this week. I'm super excited about a little privacy. Today I had 8 passion fruit vines planted and a few other plants. It will probably take awhile to collect flowers for the yard since there isn't a flower shop anywhere. I just have to look for vendors along the road. They line plants up in shady areas throughout town. Once it looks nice I'll take and post some new outdoor pictures. The only indoor pictures I have are from when I first moved in and the place looked more like a flophouse than a home! I had a mattress on the floor and 2 plastic chairs for a couple of weeks. Now most of my furniture is in, but I still need to get the couch and chair cushions covered, need to paint and put up some pictures. My goal is to get this done before my little sister Liz visits in June. Hopefully I'm successful. I'm sure you're sitting there thinking I'd have to be incredibly lazy not to get those things done in 4 months but you'd be surprised at how long things take. Thursday Tisho went to town with me to try and help me find a few things. It took 2 hours to find and buy 1 fan, 1 shovel, 1 pair of gloves, wire, a lock and 10 small plants. The extra time wasn't even us walking around. I hired a taxi to drive us around otherwise who knows how long it would have been. The walk from the fan store to the plants would have been about 20 minutes unless we were slowed down by carrying all of the stuff I already mentioned through town! I was going to buy paint but it started to rain. The skies opened and even with an umbrella I was soaked in seconds by the sideways rain. Maybe this week I'll make it to the paint store! As much as I enjoy living here there are times when I think about how nice it would be to be able to run into a Home Depot and quickly get everything done in one store.