while you all were sleeping off the tryptophan we were up and celebrating the sacrement of marriage with these three couples - really, i promise, they are happily married...
oh yeah, two delicious turkeys, one roasted in the oven, the other smoked for 7 hours...
keeping with the "nothing's easy" mantra of life down here, i present to you the alternative to heading to the local supermarket to buy a thanksgiving day turkey: last month we couldn't find any turkeys for sale locally, so we eventually sent someone into haiti to buy us two big birds. two days later he showed up with the two beauties you see below. after spending the last month residing in the center and being fattened up, today they met the hard reality of the machete to the neck. mrs. kirby will be cooking one in the oven and we'll smoke the other here at the rectory and then celebrate dinner with all the trimmings we could find locally. it looks like key lime pie will replace the standard pumpkin pie, but i'm not complaining...i'll take a nice picture of the feast tommorow if i remember...
from the old mud walled, dirt floored, one bedroom shack to the new wood paneled, cement floored, 2 bedroom, living room with balcony house:
i'm up to 32 baptisms this month and i haven't gotten to the big chapels nor the churches yet. i'm hoping i can do over 100 for the month.
also, my rcia class has 18 people in it. not too bad, although you really have to wonder how there can be an rcia class in a small town in a Catholic country, unless the country really isn't Catholic...
the house project continues and i promise to take some pictures.
also, my rcia class has 18 people in it. not too bad, although you really have to wonder how there can be an rcia class in a small town in a Catholic country, unless the country really isn't Catholic...
the house project continues and i promise to take some pictures.
