Keep truckin

Ashley and I got a chance to enjoy a pool at a hotel in our regional capital a few weeks ago - a pool on the edge of the Sahara Desert is Priceless (we paid $4 USD to swim)



Guys in our village with a homemade loom are weaving traditional fabric to sell at market
It is amazing that this is all hand produced
Hand Made in Mali
Some little kids from our village who wanted their picture taken...who could resist
These ladies also wanted their photo taken...I could only get the one on the right to smile, the other woman would not do it
These are the granary in our village - each family has there own granary which holds enough food from harvest to last them the whole year.
Traditional Dogon ladder - this is how they get on their roofs to dry grains or to do repairs before rainy season starts
Our neighbor boy bringing the family cattle back into village for the evening
My friend Umar (on the right) with his brother and his daughter - Umar is in the process of building this new house for one of his two wives. 
Ashley and Ambaybem - Ambaybem follows Ashley around village most days
A great sunset
Our good friend Ryan (a third year PC volunteer - yes that means he liked it so much he decided to stay longer than the required two years) giving a presentation outside our house on Urine Fertilization, a process of taking and peeing into a large yellow jug, letting it sit for a few days, diluting it with water and then using as a organic fertilizer (Urine is rich in nitrogen and other nutrients).  This is great because many people in our village can't afford fertilizer 

If you listen close you can hear that Ryan speaks fluent Bambara, which is a language spoken throughout Mali (the people in our village speak Donoso, but many also know Bambara and Fulani)