Well, I apologize for the extended delay in posting this first post. We have now been in Kenya for just over two weeks although it seems like a lot longer with every thing that has needed to happen.
Grace and james have had two full weeks at school, they board During the week even though the school is only 55km from home. It can take between 1 to 2 hours one way as we have some crazy traffic and roads here.
James has been fishing here in a dam on the conservancy on weekends and catching lots of Talarpia which are an excellent eating fish.
Annie has been busy making our house a home as per the Photo of Annie and Alex our Garderner come painter painting the kids rooms.
We have employed three men over the past week to help with the development phase and most probably will stay on after that.
I flew down and back to Mombassa (the port city) during the week as well to look a Truck, we have about 13,000 to 15,000 cubic meters of Gravel or Murrum as the locals call it to dig and cart onto our roads/fencelines to give us all weather access. We will then use the truck to cart grain direct to Millers in Nairobi which is only 30km away. Freight in Kenya is as if not more expensive than Australia which seems odd to me.
The clearing crew have just finished yesterday, we gave them a cow as a cut out/appreciation gift and Grace and I went down at 11am Sunday morning (today) and they had eaten the lot, Considering it arrived on the hoof at 6pm on Saturday they did not muck about. They were very happy today.
The container with our precision planter in it will hopefully arrive at Mombassa port shortly as we have some time pressure to make things happen.
I hope to plant our first crop by mid March although we have much to do before then.
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