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Moving Day Harare, New Visitors arrive, more chickens, kitchen chaos!!

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It has been a whirlwind last couple of weeks and throw in many days of no electricity, it is hard to get a blog out!  We got electricity back after 6 days off, yesterday  at 4:45 p.m. and at 6 p.m. it was turned off for load shedding!  Then back on at 9 p.m. and off by 5:00 a.m. for more load shedding--saving 6 days of no electricity doesn't count!  Then it was off from 5 a.m. Friday morning until 9 p.m. Friday night and off at 4 a.m. this morning because another fault!  Yikes!  Trying to find electricity and water at the same time to do laundry for 7 people have been my big challenge! On Thursday the 29th of January I went with Carolyn Mereki (Major's 17 y/o daughter) and her cousin Nancy (19 years old) to pack up and get ready for our move to our new townhouse, in Harare.  We spent all day packing and sorting and throwing away a lot of 17 years of accumulation of stuff.  Many visitors had left things they couldn't get into their suitcase at the last minute and we had q