It's beginning to smell a lot like...

... Christmas! Steve's baking Christmas cookies. We don't have any cookie cutters (that we know of), so he's using a knife to cut out shapes. I think he's doing a pretty good job: the trees look like trees, and you can't go wrong with a snowman.

... a barnyard! We had a pile of manure delivered to our house this week in order to start our garden. Now the house smells like a mixture of manure and compost, but it has to get worse before it gets better, right?

So Steve takes a break from his Christmas cookie preparations to give a gardening instruction or two to our guard, who's watering the garden like it's summertime. Who would have thought? Only in West Africa.