Frede's birthday

A lady put this on top of the taxi just as I was passing, on my way home.  Don't ask me why!

At the break in the hedges on the left is the entrance to our villas.

 Today the office elders came in at 6:45 to decorate the room as a surprise for Frede's birthday.  (You can't see the streamers hanging from the ceiling.)  Frede can solve the thorniest problems for almost anyone in the office.  He's solved many of ours, that's for sure.  He's 30 today.
Tonight Sr. Florine and I are having dinner at the Cornelius' with him and his wife Helisoa.  We will give him a present to remember us by when we go home:  scriptures bound in crocodile skin and embossed in gold.  His own scriptures are hanging by a thread or two and every page is marked with several colors.  They may very well be too precious to give up!