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Some Bad Luck

November 6, 2015 by leslieclark 1 Comment

Agadez had some bad luck today and so did we.    At 4am the vegetable market burned down.  We had our supplies for feeding the dignitaries at the festival already paid for — so it was a loss of $500.  Insurance, or a merchant prosperous enough to reimburse us is not a reality so we lost, but probably could afford it more than the people of Agadez.  Tragedy strikes anywhere anytime, but it sure seems to strike often here.

Aboli and Bahari are now scrambling to see if there are any vegetables left in Agadez to replace what we lost.

Rummaging through the burned vegetables

Rummaging through the burned vegetables

The kids were trying to find anything that was edible--someone started throwing them carrots--no this isn't a bird, it is a flying carrot.

The kids were trying to find anything that was edible–someone started throwing them carrots–no this isn’t a bird, it is a flying burned bunch of carrots.

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  1. louis de Ryckel

    November 6, 2015 at 7:25 am

    it is terrible ! we thinkh a lot about you and yours companies
    louis

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