bloggin' & diggin'

Just been playing around this evening with blogging.  Google has created a pretty good one here on blogger/blogspot and there's a lot of things I can add or modify to make it my own.  I even added the countdown clock for our anniversary next month!  I'll add some more posts from my journal and even from my devotional notes.  Danielle's has some cute things like favorites .... or what if ... or I'm thankful for ..., so I can try that kind of writing, too.

We had a quiet day after last nite's big rain.  The well digging has made good progress this week, but the men are on their Friday day-off today.  Benjie took this shot two weeks ago when we first got the compressor to Duduya and tested the equipment.  They've deepened by 6m the hole of hard rock since then.

Today was also the beginning of Ramadan, so for the next 30 days people will be asking me daily "i sunnen be?"  or "adda hora?" in Bambara or Pulaar to find if I'm also fasting.  I gave a Wolof friend a cassette in his language about fasting; I might have some of the same lessons in Pulaar, too.  We want folk to understand that true fasting is in the heart, Isa 58 speaks of this, and that physical fasting is only good as a discipline and way to focus on God, not for any actual accrual of gold for the kingdom of God.