March 14. The weather wasn’t perfect this morning, but the mountain ridges were clear, the clouds were higher than yesterday, there were patches of blue sky and some sunshine, and it wasn’t raining. Praise the Lord! It should be a good day for a flight into Owena.
We didn’t get up extra early because Brad had told us that we would be the second flight and wouldn’t need to be at the hangar before 8:30. He said that someone would call us before they came to pick us up. About 7:00, we heard the twin otter take off, and Daddy saw it turn toward Hagen. That was rather strange. They don’t usually start flying that early for one thing, and they don’t usually go to Hagen unless there is something wrong with the plane. Well, we were soon to find out. Nuanda had gone early to the hangar, and he called Daddy to let him know that the plane had indeed had a problem yesterday and needed to go to Hagen first thing this morning to have work done on the plane. Nuanda would call us again whenever he had further news. Well, we may as well do something other than sit around and twiddle our thumbs. So we got out our computers and started working, Oh, no, not again. My computer started acting just like it did last week when it had the virus. So much for the anti-virus protection they put in. Well, there was no time to take it back to the shop today. As soon as it started responding a bit again, I shut it down. The next thing we knew, Daddy looked out front and there was the MAF truck. Nobody had called, and we wouldn’t have even known it was there if Daddy hadn’t looked out. The plane was on its way back from Hagen and we would need to be ready to go when they returned. Well, they would have to wait a few minutes for us to pack up, which we did as quickly as possible. I have to be really careful not to rush and get stressed out, however. Otherwise my heart starts racing. It didn’t take too long to get ready as we didn’t have as much to do since we had only a few items with us for the night. Daddy carried things downstairs, and Ben helped us load things onto the truck. Daddy dropped the key off at the office, and we headed for the hangar. After we unloaded and went inside the hangar cargo area, I noticed there was a heavy box on top of a box of ours that was fragile. I went to move the heavy box and found that someone had turned the box of milk Daddy had bought yesterday upside down, and milk was leaking all over the place. Daddy came and got the wet box of milk, and I went and asked for a rag to wipe off the box underneath it. Thankfully nothing had leaked inside that one; but the box with the milk in it was ruined, and Daddy was busy wiping off all the milk cartons and setting aside the ones that were leaking. There was no empty carton around to repack the milk in so Nuanda and Tokave went across the street to Goroka Food Mart to ask for a box. They were soon back, and the box was repacked with notice on top not to turn the box upside down. It wasn’t long before the plane was back. They loaded up the cargo as quickly as they could, called the passengers to board, and we were soon air-bound and headed for Owena. Greg and Glennis were our pilots today. Even though the weather was good in Owena, the strip was very wet and muddy. That meant cargo got muddy because there is no place to unload it other than on the ground. There was just one passenger and a little bit of cargo to go out of Owena so the plane was soon off to its next destination. And we headed for the house, preceded and followed by many children and a few adults carrying cargo. I was so very thankful to be home. As soon as the carriers were paid (lollies and chocolate wafers for the little ones and soap for the men who carried the heavier loads), we got busy unpacking. But look at the clock. It’s past noon. Time for lunch. What shall we have? Daddy suggested trying the chicken sausages we had bought. Oh, I’d better get the freezer box unpacked and load up the freezer first. That done, I heated up half the chicken sausages, and we enjoyed those for our lunch. Daddy had his in a sandwich, and I ate mine plain. Then he had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and I had peanut butter and jelly crackers. After lunch, we did a little more unpacking and then off for nap. After nap, Daddy went down to the generator shed and put the new parts in the generator before starting the generator. Then he ran the generator for an hour before supper and turned it back on again after supper. The new parts, however, don’t seem to be the answer to the generator problem. The lights still keep blinking. After a while, I started fixing supper. Used up the rest of the kaukau we had bought in town and cooked up the rest of the fish because that won’t keep long if it doesn’t stay frozen. While supper was cooking, I started cleaning everything out of the tall cupboard. Not that I wanted an extra job to do right away, but the cockroaches had multiplied significantly in our absence. Ugh! There is nothing I hate worse than cockroaches. Except maybe flies and rats – I’ll give them equal place. We are also having trouble getting water. When it comes, it just comes in a trickle most of the time. Gibson told Daddy that someone had cut a pipe up near the airstrip, and nobody has bothered to fix it yet. We did finally get enough water to do the dishes. After I did the dishes, I wiped off the tall cupboard shelves and then sprayed the whole inside of the cupboard with bug spray, shutting the doors to keep the spray in and hopefully kill all those ugly cockroaches before I wash the cupboard and put everything back tomorrow. By then it was going on 8:00, and I was ready to have a snack and sit down for a while. When I first turned on the computer, it started out acting strange and not responding again; but as I waited and kept praying, the problem cleared up, at least for now. So I am very thankful to the Lord for helping it to work properly.
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