Yesterday (well actually a week ago now that I've delayed posting this) we finally were able to buy some chickens for laying eggs. We had been searching for anyone who would sell us some for about 6 months. Apparently, there are two things that might contribute to this: A chicken mafia is believed to exist that controls the market preventing people from selling egg layers to preserve the market for people to buy their commercial eggs from. The more likely story is that Hondurans don't put an emphasis on breeding the chickens to get fertile eggs to produce chicks and therefore don't have many chickens to sell and keep them all to feed their own family.
In any case, finally yesterday we acquired chickens. We put them in the chicken tractor (outdoor grazing cage) and one escaped through a hole we didn't know about. We spent the rest of the morning hopelessly chasing a chicken who could not be caught and eventually couldn't even find her in the jungle where she escaped.
Next, we got in the car to make our 2hr + round trip to town for groceries and to pick up our friend Monte, from Samaritan's Purse, at the airport. About 10 mins away from the hospital we blew a tire. While trying to fix the flat we realized we had everything but the bar that ratchets up the jack. We called one of our missionary friends, Brad, who came to help (mighty fast, might I add). While changing the tire the shock fell apart because all the threads were stripped.
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| The flat. |
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| Yeah, I took this from the safety of my air conditioned car . . . poor Rimas - It was HOT! |
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| Brad, our neighbor, to the rescue . . . |
At that point, Aliyah was over an hour past her nap time and was crying during this whole ordeal. We returned to the hospital and Rimas took Brad's truck while Aliyah and I elected to cut our losses for the day and stay home.
Then the day got a little better. The lost chicken came home, another missionary (Joel) happened to be in town and picked Monte up from the airport on time (since Rimas was way late at this point). Rimas found replacement shocks in town on a Saturday, which was great because usually nothing is open on the weekend - and he found some at a decent price as well!
What a day!
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