Saturday, May 11
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
A lazy start to the day.
We went to the dump almost recreationally. WE only had a bit of garbage, but we also hadn't driven the truck anywhere this week.
We did spend some time chatting with the woman who works at the dump. She's been there as long as we've lived here, and always try to talk with her. This time, we talked about the puppies she rescued, and she has one left. She's been finding them homes mostly be bringing them to the dump with her.
That may sound a little irresponsible, but she's doing what she can for them. The shelters are full. These are puppies that an asshole "farmer" we all are aware of as being a complete waste of oxygen as far as his animals are concerned, was going to shoot when they were discovered. I'm not completely sure of the community mechanisms that went into motion, but somehow someone who was aware of the situation contacted the woman from the dump, and she took them.
They were only about 5 weeks old when she took them, so needed extra care because they should have still been nursing. There were seven puppies, and she's found six of them homes.
Of course it would be nice if the asshole "farmer" could be charged with neglect or cruelty, but people HAVE reported him, over and over again, and nothing real ever happens. He's likely not going to get the mother fixed either, and it's not like he doesn't have the money. He does. He just doesn't care.
Anyhow, we started working on assembling the round pen when we got home. We had to do some mowing in the area we used, as the grass was very long from last year, so I mowed it, and did my best to blow it in a giant pile just outside the pasture fence to be collected soon. That part of the pasture needed to be cleared off anyhow, as the grass from last year was going to interfere with new grass. My Sweetie cut down a small tree that we had already decided probably needed to go anyhow.
Assembly itself wasn't too bad, and while we might tweak it a bit, I'm going to just sit on it for a while and see if we really need to do anything else. It's slightly oval, and I don't know if it really needs to be perfectly round or not. To get it perfectly round would require removing some fence, to have it slightly oval means it's fine the way it is.
Overall it was somewhere between 2 and three hours of fairly solid effort, so GO TEAM!
We came in and watched an episode of "Boardwalk Empire".
Ghana is another West African country that has coastline on the Guinea Gulf (Northeasternmost part of the Tropical Atlantic Ocean. It seems vague to me.)
"The earliest kingdoms to emerge in Ghana were the Kingdom of Dagbon in the north and the Bono state in the south, with the Bono state existing in the area during the 11th century.[9][10] The Ashanti Empire and other Akan kingdoms in the south emerged over the centuries.[11] Beginning in the 15th century, the Portuguese Empire, followed by other European powers, contested the area for trading rights, until the British ultimately established control of the coast by the 19th century. Following over a century of colonial resistance, the current borders of the country took shape, encompassing four separate British colonial territories: Gold Coast, Ashanti, the Northern Territories, and British Togoland. These were unified as an independent dominion within the Commonwealth of Nations. On 6 March 1957, Ghana became the first country in Sub-Saharan Africa to achieve sovereignty.[12][13][14] Ghana subsequently became influential in decolonisation efforts and the Pan-African movement.[15]"
It is currently a unitary presidential constitutional democracy, meaning there is a president. It is a pretty stable country overall, not a lot of internal conflict.
There is a bit of sketchy stuff for human rights, in that homosexuality is prohibited, and not culturally acceptable. There's also still this thing of people being accused of witchcraft, and there are "witch camps" (detention centers). Weird.
Ghana has oil, minerals, is developing hydro-electricity, as well as a digital economy (manufacturing phones and computers, electric cars). They also produce a lot of cocoa, and are the second largest producer in the world next to the Ivory Coast.
As it is reasonably safe and friendly, tourism is a huge industry here.
So, like a lot of the other coastal countries in West Africa, it is moist with mangrove swamps near the coast, and drier and grassy further inland.
English is the official language, though once again many others are spoken here. French is often still taught in schools because Ghana is surrounded by French-speaking countries.
Since there is a good medical system here, and other countries around it not so much, it is a medical tourism destination for many people.
Kente cloth is very important in Ghana and is making it's way into contemporary design.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kente_cloth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana
https://youtu.be/tzXARwHs-YQ?si=XIDHqpPDhpY5cqfu
A lazy start to the day.
We went to the dump almost recreationally. WE only had a bit of garbage, but we also hadn't driven the truck anywhere this week.
We did spend some time chatting with the woman who works at the dump. She's been there as long as we've lived here, and always try to talk with her. This time, we talked about the puppies she rescued, and she has one left. She's been finding them homes mostly be bringing them to the dump with her.
That may sound a little irresponsible, but she's doing what she can for them. The shelters are full. These are puppies that an asshole "farmer" we all are aware of as being a complete waste of oxygen as far as his animals are concerned, was going to shoot when they were discovered. I'm not completely sure of the community mechanisms that went into motion, but somehow someone who was aware of the situation contacted the woman from the dump, and she took them.
They were only about 5 weeks old when she took them, so needed extra care because they should have still been nursing. There were seven puppies, and she's found six of them homes.
Of course it would be nice if the asshole "farmer" could be charged with neglect or cruelty, but people HAVE reported him, over and over again, and nothing real ever happens. He's likely not going to get the mother fixed either, and it's not like he doesn't have the money. He does. He just doesn't care.
Anyhow, we started working on assembling the round pen when we got home. We had to do some mowing in the area we used, as the grass was very long from last year, so I mowed it, and did my best to blow it in a giant pile just outside the pasture fence to be collected soon. That part of the pasture needed to be cleared off anyhow, as the grass from last year was going to interfere with new grass. My Sweetie cut down a small tree that we had already decided probably needed to go anyhow.
Assembly itself wasn't too bad, and while we might tweak it a bit, I'm going to just sit on it for a while and see if we really need to do anything else. It's slightly oval, and I don't know if it really needs to be perfectly round or not. To get it perfectly round would require removing some fence, to have it slightly oval means it's fine the way it is.
Overall it was somewhere between 2 and three hours of fairly solid effort, so GO TEAM!
We came in and watched an episode of "Boardwalk Empire".
Ghana is another West African country that has coastline on the Guinea Gulf (Northeasternmost part of the Tropical Atlantic Ocean. It seems vague to me.)
"The earliest kingdoms to emerge in Ghana were the Kingdom of Dagbon in the north and the Bono state in the south, with the Bono state existing in the area during the 11th century.[9][10] The Ashanti Empire and other Akan kingdoms in the south emerged over the centuries.[11] Beginning in the 15th century, the Portuguese Empire, followed by other European powers, contested the area for trading rights, until the British ultimately established control of the coast by the 19th century. Following over a century of colonial resistance, the current borders of the country took shape, encompassing four separate British colonial territories: Gold Coast, Ashanti, the Northern Territories, and British Togoland. These were unified as an independent dominion within the Commonwealth of Nations. On 6 March 1957, Ghana became the first country in Sub-Saharan Africa to achieve sovereignty.[12][13][14] Ghana subsequently became influential in decolonisation efforts and the Pan-African movement.[15]"
It is currently a unitary presidential constitutional democracy, meaning there is a president. It is a pretty stable country overall, not a lot of internal conflict.
There is a bit of sketchy stuff for human rights, in that homosexuality is prohibited, and not culturally acceptable. There's also still this thing of people being accused of witchcraft, and there are "witch camps" (detention centers). Weird.
Ghana has oil, minerals, is developing hydro-electricity, as well as a digital economy (manufacturing phones and computers, electric cars). They also produce a lot of cocoa, and are the second largest producer in the world next to the Ivory Coast.
As it is reasonably safe and friendly, tourism is a huge industry here.
So, like a lot of the other coastal countries in West Africa, it is moist with mangrove swamps near the coast, and drier and grassy further inland.
English is the official language, though once again many others are spoken here. French is often still taught in schools because Ghana is surrounded by French-speaking countries.
Since there is a good medical system here, and other countries around it not so much, it is a medical tourism destination for many people.
Kente cloth is very important in Ghana and is making it's way into contemporary design.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kente_cloth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana
https://youtu.be/tzXARwHs-YQ?si=XIDHqpPDhpY5cqfu
