Bjorn and Ted work in the Stodge garden
Nell came for a visit
All the women sell the same thing...MANGOES durring mangoe season (when you can get them for free)
Grover waiting patiently at a police checkpoint
First dead mouse
I drink and bathe with dirty well water - JUM
Ibrahaima, my 28th husbans son
This is what a cashew looks like in the wild
The nut is inside the brown/gray part, and the yellow part is sooo tasty, we call them cashew apples
Rodney, my big boss
Kelly
Sarah
Me, lindsey and leslie
Jon makes a real ugly woman
Happy 4th of july!
view from my hut into the compound
weeding my cornfield
dung beetle
got a ride to the road!
Pidgeon pea growing gangbusters in the nursery
baby pidgeon pea at my house
Mango getting started behind my house
small garden getting going
bringng back the goats with my mom at night
it can be hard to get them all going in the same direction
looking out of the compound into 'main street' (or main river)
my house is the white one
Sarjos house before it fell...
My corn field later in the season
corn fertilized with urine
live fence (sisal) in Buba's orchard
Courtney's B-Day in Kombo
Pounding coos (millet) in my compound
Job, Mariama (girl named after me) and her mom Ramata
Mama Kumba and Kadjatou
Amadou and Adama
Fatou, Amie and Mariama
Mama Hawa and Safie
Keba enjoying my house
Pidgeon pea growing strong (before my walls fell down on them)
small garden
moringa and pidgeon pea
Ansata & Kadjatou
My corn field
All the women come to watch the soccer match
My corn!!!
Coos or millet after it is harvested. Laying in the sun to dry
Later in the season Sarjos house comes down too
Mama Kumbas black beans
Fatou, Usuman, mama Kumba & Hawa
pounding the beans
pounding coos (millet)
Mariama! (first one named after me)
Mariama & my mom
Egge & Mariama (the second)
Sarjo bathing Mariama
flies are attracted to the reflective part of my shoe
Omar brining the coos from the fields
burning the peanut plant with the peanuts attached for a snack later
Kebba & Issah
Egge collring in my house
Salimina has his turn
My brother Salif's peanut farm
peanut farm
peanuts
peanut plant
peanut heap for drying
Ablai & my brother Salif
Guru taking the cows out to graze
my mom in the peanut fealds
releasing the cows from being tied up at night
Kebba
Sarjo & Kebba
Ablai (Kebba & Mariamas) big brother
Ablai and Mariama
Fula ladies getting off the ferry with milk on their heads
Allison, me & Lindsey
Stiemate Josiah
Mai, Tyler and Ted
Bjorn & me