In our garden, we have an abundance of plants, including a banana and matooke, or matoke, tree. Today, we got our first harvest of bananas, and the matoke is soon to come. If you click the title, you will be taken to wikipedia, where you will get a more detailed description of matooke, but here's mine. Matooke, as well as bananas, come in year round harvests, meaning that they don't have a specific harvest time, it just takes a certain amount of days, and then the matooke or bananas are ready to be picked. Matooke is a staple food here in Uganda, and is extremely cheap. I haven't been able to try any yet, and I'm not sure if I'll like 
it, but we'll see. I do know, however, that bananas and matooke look extremely similar.
it, but we'll see. I do know, however, that bananas and matooke look extremely similar. CHECK OUT THE NEW POLLS!!!
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I wonder who can correctly answer the poll...
Now check out the monkey video on Google Video: It's under African Monkey Attack.
they're on the sidebar Uncle John:
the hippo pix
Raffi's newest release on the Ugandan charts?
Matookephone
What do you say when a Ugandan has become insane?
He's gone matooke!
Newest song by Ugandan female pop star?
This song is matooke, M-A-T-O-O-K-E (she ain't no hollaback girl)
Who's expected to win the latest Dancing with the Ugandan Stars?
Of course, it's Chiquita Matooke.
(Yes, they ferment matooke. No, I haven't had any.)
I have a couple of words to say with regards to the picture of the Hippo foot-print---->
More than mere impressions in the soil of a hoof or paw, animal tracks tell an intricate story about their makers. The art of reading animal tracks are becoming extinct as people move away from their traditional ways towards a western way of life.
Today, tracking is used in eco tourism to find animals for observation and studying, or to be photographed, rather than for hunting.
A skilled tracker is able to interpret and understand the story behind each animal track found in the wild. Footprints reveal a wealth of information. The shape of the hoofprint indicates not only the animal species, but also the sex of the animal. The depth of the impression indicates the weight of the animal, while uneven strides indicate an aged animal. Crippled animals, such as an animal shot in a hunt, can be identified by one footprint being deeper than the rest. Individual animals can be identified by looking at the specific walking and running habits visible from its tracks.
Animals feeding in a herd may crisscross and produce a great jumble of footprints, but while a calmly feeding heard produces neat prints, the footprints of a spooked herd will be deep at the leading edge with sand kicked up and longer strides.
Tracks zig-zagging from one tree to the next indicates that an animal passed during the heat of the day. Tracks passing on the western side of trees indicate that the animal was looking for morning shade, while those on the eastern side show that it was looking for afternoon shade. Tracks milling in the open indicate a herd sleeping in a confined space during the night.
The condition of tracks indicates their age. Fresh tracks are clean-cut. After about an hour, fine sand can be blown into the track. If the track is older, leaves and twigs will have fallen in. Tracks are later crisscrossed by the tracks of insects and other animals.
By reconstructing animal movements through the study of tracks we are able to visualise the actions and habits of various animal species. In this way it becomes possible to tell a story of what happened in the wild when no one was looking.
not again...
the post dates are getting messed up again.
two new posts, ugandan power system and matatu, are dated older than they really are.
use the archive to check them out.
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