Happy Holidays!

Has it really been a month since I posted? I'm way behind and can't take the time today to give the full update I'd like to...

As we were preparing to leave Addis for a weekend at Lake Langano on Dec. 1, walking between our house and the property wall, I found a small (two week-old) kitten. I thought perhaps someone had thrown him over the wall, but when I looked up, I saw several falcons circling. I presumed they'd stolen him from his mother and dropped him in an attempt to kill him.






We ended up taking him to Langano where we spent a lovely, relaxing weekend. We fed the kitten, who by now had acquired a name ("Samay" - Amharic for "sky", since that is whence he came), milk through an eyedropper. Unfortunately, though he did well for a while, he died a few days later.

We worked on unpacking our household effects the following weekend and week, in preparation for a holiday party we hosted on December 16.

Gotta run - more later?