I go grocery shopping once a month. One big shop then I don’t have to worry about making sure I get into town or running out. I seem to have a good idea of what is needed in a month. So it is now at the end of the month and there are veggies left in the fridge that are on their last leg and need to be used so I have come up with an idea called “Left over chili”. Left over chili is the usual ground beef, tomato sauce, beans’n sauce and all the left over veg in my fridge. It turned out really well although there was an unimaginable amount of green string beans and carrots, but now I have loads of iron and good night vision!

ZESA for the first time this evening went out for a usual 4.5 hour stint. 5pm it went out, 9:30 it came back. Luckily for the first hour I was in a meeting, then I was able to work until my computer battery died, then I made dinner on the propane tank.

My “To Do” list is now numbered and the numbers are distributed evenly among the days. Lots of the numbers span over a few days and some I think will never get ticked off the list, it also doesn’t help that the list keeps getting longer!!!

We are now working on the game plan of what’s going on inside the building. The various ideas are becoming more concrete and various competitions to decorate the building. This should have been done before the building was designed but here in Zimbabwe things happen differently. I’m surprised I’m the one putting together this game plan, but it’s been good experience and interesting.

Another new thing we thought to try is mixing our Bamba brick system with a Hydraform. The design and strength of the Bamba system with the ease of construction of the Hydraform to create an iron brick that you can turn out 1000 a day versus the 100 a day with just the Bamba. The Hydraform usually doesn’t include cement in the mix and doesn’t provide the interlocking system of Bamba. So we’ll see what turns out. One small step for Meredith, one GIANT step for the construction brick making community.