April 12. Went to bed at 9:30 last night. Was really wiped out from battling this cold or flu or whatever. Was thankful for a little extra sleep. Before I went to bed, I had seen a rat go running behind the kitchen cupboards. Daddy suggested putting a few moth balls back there since the rat poison is gone. Moth balls are supposed to scare the rats away. It rained and rained and rained during the night, but no rain today. Praise the Lord! This morning, the students had their Bible quiz right after prayer and review of memory verse. Then we went right to music class after that, followed by Bible class, recess, and English class. Music class had an interruption when Daddy spied a large rat sitting on the kitchen floor near the table. It was obviously dying from the rat poison it had eaten a couple nights before. Each of the school students grabbed a piece of firewood and surrounded the rat which had scooted under the table. When one student struck at it and it ran out another side, Anna Jean gave it a whack and that was the end of that. Mike picked it up by the tail and took it out to the garbage hole. I’m certainly thankful to have that foul-smelling creature gone. We had other little visitors this morning too. While Matthew was working, a hen and rooster came in the back door that had been left open. Matthew and Daddy chased them out, but they weren’t very happy about it. Matthew said that the hen was looking for a place to lay her eggs, and the rooster was helping her. At 11:15, the students closed their English books, and we had a church service day. The young ladies cleaned the front doors, the offering box, the pulpit, the platform, and the artificial flowers. They also washed the chalkboard. The men moved the chalkboard to its former location behind the pulpit, moved a bulletin board to the opposite side of the room, and took the poles down from above the two windows which had had kunai* canopies outside. The kunai was long gone, and the poles were rotten. The men also scrubbed the tire that the “flower girls” arrange flowers in for lotu. Judy took home dishes and tins that are used for flowers, washed them, and brought them back later. *Kunai – tall grass used for making thatched roofs It was a nice surprise to see Sosthenes and talk with him a bit. He is home from school for a week’s holiday. He came in and helped the men with some of the church work, and also helped his father who was working on our kitchen cupboards. I had hoped to put another coat of paint on the front of the church cupboard, but Matthew had set up his “workshop” close by there. It was after 12:30 before we had dinner. Daddy and I ate while everyone was still working. After everyone left, except for Dallas who was chopping up some smaller pieces of firewood, I finally lay down for nap. It was already 1:45, and I was wiped out. Daddy waited until Dallas was done. Even though I lay down for a couple hours, I didn’t sleep much. Checked my temperature when I woke up, and it was a bit high like it was the other day. Finally gave in and started on amoxicillin. The large doses of supplements didn’t seem to be helping, and I don’t want to run completely out of supplements before our shipment comes from the states. Before supper, I had just a little time to work at the computer. I made sure the music lessons for Monday were ready for printing so I could print them and the Bible lessons when the generator would be turned on this evening. We had a little bit of a late supper since we had had a late dinner. Then I washed dishes and had my “bath” while the house was still warm. However, I did not get to print any lessons. The pull rope didn’t hold, and there is no other way to start the generator right now. Daddy will look at it in the morning, but it was too dark to try to fix it this evening. April 13. Praise the Lord for a dry night last night and a dry and mostly sunny day. It is raining again this evening. Started smelling a dead rat smell yesterday, mainly in the bathtub area of the bathroom. Before morning, however, the whole house stunk with that putrid smell. I slept in a little later this morning, not even sure what time it was when I got up. Did not go out into the meeting room for lotu, but prayed in here out of the cold draft. Since the generator was not working again, Anna Jean and Judy had to do laundry in the bathtub with plungers for agitating and hands for wringing them out. They didn’t seem to mind, though, and they do get along well together which is a great blessing. After they had the clothes hung out, Anna Jean fixed kaukau (white sweet potato) and potatoes for our dinner, and Judy swept the floors and burned the trash. Each fixed herself a cup of coffee before going home. Daddy met with Amos. Then Tomas came with some tools; and he and some of the other men, along with Daddy, went to see if they could fix the pull cord on the generator. A screw or something had fallen down inside somewhere last night when Daddy tried to start it so they had to take things apart to get that screw. They did, however, get it put back together, and Daddy let it run for a while after that. While the girls were washing clothes, I cleaned the toilet in the extra bathroom so it could be used while the girls were working at the bathtub and can also be used until the dead rat smell goes away. Also gathered up all the trash and put it into one large trash bag so it would be ready to be taken out and burned; and when the generator was on, I printed music lessons and Bible lessons for school this coming week. They didn’t come out looking very good, however, as the line-up changes when they are moved from computer to computer; and I can only print them in the Lenovo, but I can’t fix them in the Lenovo because my Microsoft programs are locked up. It is rather frustrating, but will just have to be for now. After dinner, Daddy went out and brought the clothes in. We hung the wet ones in the schoolroom before settling down for nap. I took a little bit longer nap again since I am still not feeling well, but not quite as long a nap as yesterday. This afternoon, I made sure that lesson plans are ready for Monday and wrote some math problems on the chalkboard; found and cleaned a large piece of white board for the students to use for a science bulletin board; sorted some pictures according to categories, finished checking over the last chapter of Hebrews so it is now ready for the two of us to do the final checking together (praise the Lord!), and pinned up the edge of the PNG flag that the was washed the other day so it could be hemmed. Part of the bottom edge had apparently been eaten away by a rat.. After supper, I washed the dishes, but I did not take a bath. The smell in the bathroom is too strong and makes me gag. While I was waiting for the power to go on, I stitched up the hem on the flag. (The flag is now hanging in the schoolroom.) Then I wrote in journal and worked on getting past journal notes together for Connie.
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