There’s a new category on this here blog, folks, and I hope you’re as excited as I am!

My older sister Steph, dedicated missionary on the field of South Africa, crazy loon and all around cool puppy, has been made an honorary member of this blog with a category all her own. Don’t expect her to be prolific, but do expect genius. I give you Steph!

Attack of the Spores

Yes, it’s that wonderful time of year when summer comes, bringing with it 80% humidity and a full-on greenhouse effect. One morning you wake up and you notice everything looks a slightly different color; even your shoes in the cupboard have changed. On closer inspection you realize that no, someone didn’t leave a green pair of sandals in your closet but your favorite pair of leather shoes have been attacked – attacked by the spores and are now covered in a soft fuzzy blanket of mold.

Mold is now our favorite subject seeing as our house has turned into one large and evolving science project. It makes for a great teaching aid, “Come kids, lets see how many types of mold we can identify then afterwards we can go mushroom picking!” You see mushrooms are now growing out of our stairs, quite the variety too, although no one has been tempted to eat them….yet.

Ahhh summer time! Don’t worry though, the entire country is not like this just where we live in a small pocket resembling the garden of Eden where the ground is always covered with dew, your laundry never really dries and if you’re the type who’s never been able to keep a plant alive…well drop by for a visit. All you have to do is leave whatever substance you wish to grow out for one day and by the next it will have started sprouting. Satisfaction guaranteed! If you do decide to visit we’ll advise you not to lean up against any walls because they act like sponges and will release water under even the slightest amount of pressure although we do provide umbrella’s on request.

Thankfully though, we are soon to leave our fungus farm for higher and hopefully drier ground. If not so fun at least living here has been educational in a creepy moldy kind of way.