Dinthi AM: eating nthudza fruit off the vine. Light rain. Songo PM: dictionary meeting. Kids get to splash in the pool! Hilary does crosswords.

Bleaching the well. It’s a good idea to bleach your well once a month to keep creepy-crawlies from hatching in your drinking water.  But calculating how much bleach to add to the well is a real brain-buster.

One source say add 1 pint of bleach per 1000 gallons with 6% solution.  Another says add 12 tablespoons [...]

Bats, rats, bugs and lizards all came by to welcome us home. Yet we’re all strangely happy because this is the one place on earth we call home.

Wayne Leman came across this great quote from Translating the Word of God by Beekman and Callow: “A KISS is a NOUN because it is both common and proper. A KISS is a PRONOUN because ’she’ stands for it. A KISS is a VERB; it is either active or passive. A KISS [...]

The Land Rover is packed with supplies for a month in the village. Uh oh! One tire is low. Looks like I first need to go to town for a repair.

Rick has posted Round 2 of the comparison of New Living Translation and the Contemporary English Version. Check it out for an interesting study on how these two versions in standard English handle some of the ambiguities of the Book of Job. I wrote Round 1 of this series and I’m already working on Round 3.

My recent post A guide to Biblical kissing was a shameless attempt to bring traffic to my blog. But actually smooching in the Bible is a pretty interesting topic and I have found myself talking about it with fellow translators this week. In fact, I am starting to get some strange looks. [...]

  The school room for these kids is normally the kitchen table.  But it’s hard to know which house or country they’ll be meeting in next. Last month they were in Vila Ulongwe. This month it’s Tete city. Next month it’s our house in the village.  Having consistent school days is a big challenge.  [...]

I’ve brought our family photo journal and the Nyungwe Bible translation blog over to WordPress.  Please update your blogrolls. Thanks! Afri-Kers Family Photo Journal: http://afrikers.wordpress.com (Note there is no hyphen in “afrikers”) Nyungwe Bible Translation: http://nyungwe.wordpress.com

Posts in this series: It’s all in your perspective, The Crocodile God, Who messed with the ending?  The Book of Job: Fact or Fiction This is a cool series. I enjoyed writing it and I really enjoyed the book of Job.  Check it out.

I have deleted all the lenses that previously featured in the sidebar of this blog.  I was not pleased with the ads they were running on my lenses.  No big loss.

I’ve switched the photo on my blog. Enjoy.