Breakfast, way more than I usually eat, but good.
Got overview of the chicken farming operation here. They raise 20,000 chickens at a time. Five weeks from delivery of the chicks to harvest. Things are quiet because they're inbetween crops. The chicken house has been cleaned and prepped, ready for the next delivery of chicks.
This venture was funded by Sparc Ventures out of Chicago to help them on the road to self-sufficiency. I'm told that they are pretty far along the learning curve and that it is starting to pay off.
We left to go to Ndola, stopped along the way to get some fresh-caught tilapia for the orphanage and when we came back to the van ... problem. It suddenly won't idle. Goes like crazy once you get started, but woe unto you if you go slow enough that it can stall and it will. So, Plan B. We're back at the chicken farm waiting for the mechanic to show up to adjust the idle so we can leave for Ndola.
Meanwhile. It's a really nice day here. Breezy, broken clouds. Cool-ish. The humidity has dropped quite a bit over yesterday, so it's actually pleasant sitting here on the stoop, writing. The birds chirping all morning. The flies are a nuisance, but so far no mosquitos.
There are huge puddles all over--some more lake-like than puddle. People everywhere along the roads. It's people traffic as well as the jitney busses and diesel trucks and cars. I've see a few bicycles and one motorcycle. Makeshift wheelbarrows made of rebar, sheet metal, and what look like auto wheels/tires. Bustling is the right word.
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