Monday, January 27, 2014

Trip to Otjiwarango Part 3

This is Edna's butcher shop.  Edna and Wilbur live in Kalkfeld on the weekends and during the week they live in Otjiwarango so their daughter can finish high school (Kalkfeld doesn't have 11th and 12th grade).

There are some folks that Edna allows to run a braai on the property for lunch.  I have been there several times but you have to be there very early to get roosterbrood!  It looked like rain so people cleared out fast!


 And it POURED.  A much needed rain with the heavens opening up- but it only lasted 5 minutes.

Auntie Lokie with Edna and Wilbur.  Edna is moving her butcher shop to Kalkfeld when after their daughter graduates.  She will have a shop in the new Kalkfeld "visitors center" which is scheduled to be finished Easter week 2014.  It will be a much smaller shop with much less traffic but she is hoping to make a go of it if some of the customers are willing to travel to her there.  She is a very generous person and seems to help everyone who comes along, but has found it hard to get good employees and to be commuting back and forth.


The sun didn't come out like Namibia but the rain ended and the clouds made it a nice cool day.  This is where one of the other two grocery stores in are in Otjiwarango.  On the left is a Wimpy's (like a Denny's), then a pharmacy and a bank.  In the middle is the grocery store and then there is a small primarily Afrikaans Christian bookstore (the only bookstore I found in the area) and then a cell phone store and an African arts/travel store.


Norah (right) and Caren (left), a wonderful person and good hairdresser Norah introduced me to!







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