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May 11,

Alice has asked me to write this blog as she thinks I have more to talk about right now.

Well we are back in Malawi. It is good to be back home again. We have been here for almost two weeks now and things are back to normal. We get up, we go over to the orphanage, and we go into town to take someone to hospital or to go shopping or go to the internet.

The reason that Alice wanted me to write this blog is that after 6 months without a cat we now have a kitten living with us. I am one of those persons who needs a cat around to feel like he is in a home instead of just a house. The kitten is still trying to let me know what her name is, but she is pretty young so she does not talk very well yet. She is one of the litter that was at Esther and Stephano’s house. When they were tiny kittens they would not have anything to do with me. But when we got back from the USA they were less fearful. This one was pretty scrawny so I started feeding it some nsima scraps. Then I decided to find some cat food that I could carry around in the car so I could feed it when I went over to the orphanage. Yesterday Esther finally took pity on me and asked me if I would take the cat off of her hands because she does not like cats. So she came home with us last night, and scared the heck out of our guard dog. Lukia was frightened of her all last night, but seems to be less afraid of her today. She has been busy exploring the house and sleeping and eating. I will post a picture if I can.

It feels like we have more direction now. Land has been bought to build a new orphanage on. It is about one acre and about 7 kilometers outside of town. We will first need to build a small house for a watchman to live in then we can start on the wall that will surround the property. Once the wall is up we can start having the buildings put up. I am working now to design the buildings so that when we are ready to build we will know what to build. Of course all of this depends on there being money in the coffers to build with. But our God is an awesome God, and I know that the money to build His orphanage will be there in His time. I will post some pictures of the land when I can.

That is about all that I have for today, so I will sign off until sometime later.

Ray

(As a postscript, the kitten confessed that her name is Princess Fiona).

Also, I'll have to post the picture later. It is too large so we have to change the size of it on the other laptop at home. Sorry. She's a cutie!