Friday Odds & Ends

Yesterday, we said goodbye to a volunteer from Australia.  She's been helping out SITAG for almost five months, doing whatever little things have fallen through the cracks and giving her time and energy to be a good "Auntie" to all of the SITAG kids.  She'll be missed!

 

 

In August, she also helped us build a small raised bed to plant our Chinese cabbage, tomatoes, and buna, a leafy green that has become one of our favorites.  We've been trying to use up the Chinese cabbage because it's getting old and because we are leaving next week.  One newly discovered recipe is brown rice, chicken, and cilantro salad, but we tweak the recipe by adding a lot more Chinese cabbage than the recipe calls for.

 

And this is sweet Betsy.  Betsy is a "house girl" at SITAG.  She keeps the group's houses in great shape with her servant spirit, no matter who is coming and going throughout the year.  She and the other employees are a trustworthy constant at SITAG, and we are so thankful for them.  Earlier this week, Aaron was down at the wharf picking up a colleague, and I saw a strange guy walking around behind our house.  I went to find one of the employees to ask if SITAG had any visitors.  As soon as I told Patson and Silas that I didn't recognize a man walking around SITAG, they dropped the lumber they were carrying and were off like a shot up the hill.  Happy ending - the guy was from the Solomon Islands Water Association and was just checking meters.  But he had zero identification, so nobody knew that he was "official".  Patson and Silas both got cinnamon rolls the next morning as a "thank you" for going above and beyond their job descriptions.