July 17th 2013

Up at 6:15 and unlocked the gate.  Breakfast was the same as last nights dinner, but the meat was ground up. The team headed back by both schools to verify where the holes are going to get drilled.  Back to camp by 9:00.  The guys got busy drilling holes and mounting the electronics in the boxes.  By lunch they had just about everything ready for wiring.  Lunch started off as zebu on rice with a bit of onion in it.  But instead of bananas, we had fresh papaya, a welcome change.  Sunny today and quite warm but still nice in the shade.  Spent the afternoon sorta watching the team wire up everything as I read.  I got to near the end of The Ocean at the Lane before dinner, might struggle in the dark to finish it.  Dinner was good, no rice!  We had a vegetable soup with small pieces of toasted garlic bread.  It was good, I had way too many pieces of bread.  Dark by the time we were done and I went back upstairs to figure out what laundry to process.  I sent in 14 pieces for 2,000 ariary (a bit less than $1).  Back to the loft to text Antje as Kati heads off to college. Texting was slow, so I finished the book and will wait until tomorrow to start the next one.  Finally called a night a bit after 8.