WE HAVE A PET!!

Our missionary friends, the Kenyons, have a little kitty who has adopted them as its supportive family. It comes to their door and meows, and it knows that they will open the door and fix a bowl of cat food for her. Well, we now have a pet too, but ours is a monkey! She is a cute little critter who is very friendly and curious. She was outside our front door and the crows were really harrassing her. They were making an awful noise. When I looked out, there was a cute little monkey in the yard. She jumped up in the tree just outside our office window. We went outside with the camera to see her better and take some photos. She was not afraid but watched us very carefully. Ken decided that we would see how she liked mangos. Guess what? She did! He set a piece up on a branch very close to us and she hurried right down and grabbed it, then ran up to the bushy part of the tree and ate it. He repeated the process, and she was there in a flash. She didn't seem to get full (or tired as our African missionary friends say). We had fun with her for at least a half hour and then we had to leave for an appointment. She was sitting on a branch and I heard a sound and looked over and she was peeing all over the driveway. Glad I wasn't underneath that! As we got in the car, she kept watching us and I had a good shot of her, so I asked Ken to wait while I got another picture. When I opened the window she came running down the branch and got so close that I was afraid that she would jump in the window on my lap. I wasn't sure what I would do with a monkey in the car, so I quickly rolled up the window and forgot about the good picture. It is fun to be living with the unusual animals that we see here. We often see a mongoose family in our yard, and about a week ago we saw a lizard in our neighbors driveway that was 3 feet long. When we drove in, it quickly disappeared across the porch up the wall and into some shrubbery. Kinda fun, just have to watch where you walk!