ugh

That's about all I can say, after arriving home last night and finding that my guest house had been broken into.. Luckily only a few things were stolen, I had my important electronics with me, but my backup hard drive, two cameras that Kyklou gave me, a Blackberry that I wasn't using, my knives (which are the most sentimental things I lost). They went through all my clothes and around my shelves, but didn't find my hidden money stash, which was huge. That would of been a big blow.

Also the farm had been burglarized, and we know who it was, it was one of our farmhands and one of the local kids. They took 800kg of broken maize and tried to sell it to the local miller. A neighbor tipped us off, we went to the miller, they told us who it was, and we caught them all right, brought back the maize.. But all this combined today to make me go 'ugh.' The whole weekend and now today was spent dealing with the aftermath, both the immediate problems of not having farmhands we can trust, and then just the larger problem of creating a culture where we aren't being taken advantage of. And it's not that we have the farm settled in any way, we're getting there, our new farm manager is working out well, but we just can't catch a break.

So I'm very tired tonight, starting my countdown to the end of June with a busy, exhausting day. Here's to hoping tomorrow is better, I'd appreciate prayers all around. Thanks everyone.