bacteria water

Today we purchased this water filtration/purification system (can you really call it a "system" when it's just two buckets?) because all drinking water must be purified in Tanzania.  We even have to brush our teeth with purified water!  Some of the possible waterborne diseases are: Typhoid, Hepatitis, Diarrhea, Schistosomiasis, Cholera, and Dysentery.  Yuck!

After buying it, I went to the kitchen and drank a glass of water from the faucet.  Thank God for clean water!!


 Just for fun...
>>Actually, the technology is quite fascinating.  The top bucket removes sediment with a 30 micron filter.  Then the bottom bucket uses a filter with pentaiodide resin which attracts contaminants in the water and releases just enough iodine to kill the disease.  Pretty smart, huh?  Yeah, NASA uses it.

And that makes number three, this time Jeannette was the warrior....No, wait, this just in...NUMBER 4

Three!?!  Really!?!  What are we, tarantula magnets?

Jeannette was the hero this time.  It was climbing up the wall next to our front door and she beat it to death.  (My wife is awesome!)

Look, it's as big as our car!!

THIS JUST IN.....

Number 4!

We took a video to document it because no one else in Texas has seen this many at one time.

The power of the Word

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THIS is why all Texans wear cowboy boots

I stepped outside in my barefeet to take out the garbage (like I do every morning) and suddenly realized THIS is why all Texans wear cowboy boots...

It reminds me of our encounter last Fall:
http://gerthfamilytanzania.blogspot.com/2011/09/nobody-warned-us-about-texas-tarantulas.html