a breezy clothes-drying day

After a torrential rainfall this morning, John and Sam went outside to bike and enjoy the cool air brought in by the rain. I asked them to pose for this picture at the clothesline, thinking (correctly, it turned out) that might distract them from trying to pull the sheets off the line (apparently a gleefully fun activity for small boys when mothers aren't around).

In the front yard, all our freshly bleached diapers are drying in the bright sun. Do you know why I bleached all our diapers? It's because we're having our first official visitors in the nearly two years we've been here! Yes, we have friends coming all the way out here to Berbérati, and their little boy is still in diapers and will be using ours while he's here.

This morning I heard the drone of an airplane coming overhead: the sound of the only commercial flight that flies into Berbérati, once a week. Next Tuesday, a week from today, our friends the Olsons will be on that flight. And we can't wait!