October 20 - The Feast - Red Rhino Outreach Project

October 20 – The Feast

October 19, 2008 Greg Traverso Uncategorized

Greetings.

If you inexplicably smelled something good being grilled about a week ago, I may have the explanation. Grab a couple of napkins, forget the silverware, and pull up a chair.

$And one of our neighbor\'s cows was half way through this woven plastic bag by the time I got there.$

$Gilbert\'s son, David, his first, and the goat\'s last, ride.$

$Forty five minutes later. Parts were grilled, some stewed, some saved for those not there. The mountain of white stuff is ugali, the maize flour staple, and the greens are sukuma wiki, a kale-like plant whose name means \"to push the week.\"$

$Exhibit \"A\"$

It rained last night.

David

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martin says
October 22, 2008 at 8:55 am

i believe i’ll have the nyama choma combo plate, supersized. and hold the oysters. thanks much.

martin
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Ed Richardson says
October 22, 2008 at 10:09 am

Dave,

Wow!…some compaction and feast. What a time! Can’t wait to see the next phase.Hope we see you around Christmas.

Ed
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Chris says
October 23, 2008 at 12:17 am

I’m still laughing at that misfit yellow compactor — and you spring this goat-fest on us? After walking it out in front of us and the kids like it was Mary’s little lamb?

By the way, is that yellow compactor still spewing and grinding somewhere in the middle of the night? There’s only so much oil left in the sub-Sahara, I’ll let you know.

Chris
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david says
October 23, 2008 at 10:10 am

Martin,

The incomparable one and I shared a plate of nyama choma last week with Mrs Masa and another couple. Finally the legend took physical form. He asks continually after you, and still looks very smart in his pressed shirts.

David
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david says
October 23, 2008 at 10:16 am

Thanks Ed,

The feast was more fun than the compacting, but they both had their charm. I’ll see you soon. Cioppino (sp) at Greg and Susan’s!!

David
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david says
October 23, 2008 at 10:24 am

CL,

It’s a good thing Mary’s little lamb wasn’t around that day or we would have eaten it too. It was a hungry crew.

The “Yellow Submarine” as I came to think of it, is, I would imagine, busy making things flat and hard, and increasing Kenya’s oil dependency in the bargain as it rattles along.

DWS
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martin says
October 23, 2008 at 5:21 pm

wow, first-hand confirmation of a mrs. masa! she’s like norm’s wife vera. give them all a hearty habari for me.

caption for the photo from 10/22:

“area muzungu devours boy’s halloween candy”

claims, ‘i needed something sweet after i ate your pet goat.’
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david says
October 23, 2008 at 10:33 pm

Martin,

I didn’t know they delivered The Standard all the way to San Diego. And I thought that unfortunate and misunderstood candy incident had been…dealt with.

But fair is fair. I’m recaptioning the incriminating pic.

D

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