Beautiful Feet: May 12, 2015

We’re parents again! Dwaine has been watching a nest in our bathroom window for a while. We had pictures of the eggs. Well, they hatched. As best we can tell, one egg didn’t open, but three did. They sure are small and the real mom and dad are fighting mad when we look at them through the window. This was a treat to have new additions to our family.Tuesday is our ‘day off,’ so Dwaine got a call at 7:00, saying a lady needed a ride to Ahuachapán to go to the hospital. Edgardo and the two ladies arrived here at 7:30 ready to go. After dropping them off, Edgardo and Dwaine came back to Ataco. The ladies did not know how long they would be, so they said they could come back by bus. Dwaine and I headed out to a study about 10:30. It wasn’t scheduled, but Rosario had not been at home last week, so we thought we might try again. She was home. When we arrived, she was busy for a moment and a man passed by along the path. He is in the area regularly, so we asked him, where he was coming from. There is an old structure that looks like a barn, but there was a closed gate. He opened the gate and said that we should walk about because there were pretty flowers about. After going through the gate, we saw an old, condemned house nearby. It was huge! The porch was large and rounded. The roof over it was sagging terribly. I could see there was a picture of an insect on the window, so I decided to brave the sagging roof and take a look. It was a true bug, Hemiptera. It looked like the note, see below, said the house was infested, so beware. It carried the warning of Chagas. I told Dwaine I knew of a true bug that was called the ‘Kissing bug,’ that lived near the Equator. At night it would bite you on the lips and deposit a parasite that would reveal it’s affects about 7 years later, causing your heart to fail. So, when we got home, I looked it up and that was it! This is one I would rather not be right on. Entomology students can look that one up. I am suspicious that if that house was infested, that our friend’s home might be a possibility too. Well, they don’t bite, to my knowledge during the day. Anyway, we had a great study with Rosario and learned some more of her concerns on her hesitancy. So, we can talk about these more the next time we visit. I was glad we got to see her. We headed out about 3:30 to Ahuachapán. I wanted to buy material to make a skirt and look at a book store for some felt to make puppets. We made short order of those things and then went to Wendy’s home. She said she would cut my hair for me. She did a great job, but a little shorter than I would like. It is really hot now, so shorter might be better. We had a good visit. She said she had done some volunteer work in San Salvador and had cut about 40 head of hair! That is a lot. She said she would come to Ataco next week and visit us.