Huck has been sick he developed tick fever. It took me a few days to notice as he doesn’t eat much to begin with, he started eating even less until he stopped eating, he became really lethargic and just wanted to sleep all day and he was more than his usually cuddly. I thought it was strep throat, which is common among dogs out here, so I was checking his throat and noticed over a few days that his gums were getting white and his eyes were getting whiter, he was going pale, anemic. As I was going to Harare anyways I thought I would take him with me but he started to fail fast so I took him to the Nyanga vet, who was drunk at the time it gave him the shots and the next morning he was returning to normal. I still took him to Nyanga with me to keep an eye on him and good thing I did because he was injected wrong and development a lump at his injection site that filled with fluid that had to be drained.

Harare was good, the AIDS clinic that I go to once a month was great, unfortunately one of the granny’s died in a public transport accident, which unfortunately is a weekly occurrence. I love going to the clinic because these granny’s are in their 70’s and 80’s and starting over as parents with 7 or 8 grandchildren. One granny has 17 relatives living in her home!!! Lots of the families rent out rooms in their homes to make money, so they sleep in the living room or kitchen and rent out the bedrooms. Some of the grandpa’s work as security guards, which seems a bit odd as an 80 year old man fending off robbers doesn’t seem like such a good idea. They do what they need to survive.

My car is back at the doctor, I was driving and all of a sudden the engine would rev and then the speedometer would go down to zero and the car would stop. I would just turn the key off and then wait a few seconds and then turn the engine back on and it was fine. It was due for a service so I took it in and found that the fuel pump was gone, so they put in a new one and then found that the fuel pump regulator was broken. Right for the non-car people the fuel pump regulator, regulates the amount of fuel that goes into the fuel pump which when you push the gas fills with fuel and makes the car go, so the harder I pushed the gas the less fuel that went in and the car died. Fuel pump was easy to replace, the regulator not so much so it’s been a long time and I’m stuck in Harare BUT I got to make a quick trip home to check on the project, the house, take Huck home and see Molly.

The foundations are done, just waiting for inspection, which I hope to do Monday so that the concrete slab can be poured, more on that very soon...